It’s Not “Marriage Equality” — It’s Just Marriage
Words are powerful. Words express ideas and opinions. Words communicate thoughts and direct lives and steer the world. So it is no wonder that Satan uses words. In the garden, he used words to cause Adam and Eve to sin. When Jesus was tempted, the Devil tried his best to challenge the allegiance of Jesus with words. Today, Satan is still working to ruin the world with words.
One of the words or phrases he has recently been using is “Marriage Equality.” How sinister! There is a group that is promoting the homosexual agenda with these terrible, lying, deceptive words. I have seen this term used on several occasions and it makes me cringe. They don’t want to call it what it is, and that is the word “abomination.” In fact, they instead want to take a holy, God-ordained institution and make it unholy, yet pretend it is still holy. They have already attempted to monopolize the rainbow, the symbol of God’s heavenly promise of mercy and forgiveness. So now they will take marriage.
The deception is simple. They want to unbalance the scales by promoting the idea that God’s standard for marriage is unfair–or unequal–because it does not include the union of two people of the same sex. Let’s face it, things are so broken down morally in our country, that the university in the town where I live will not use the terms “male” and “female” anymore because they are supposedly discriminatory. The final goal is for people with this agenda to rub out every line that distinguishes between good and evil so that any person can do whatever they want, love whomever they want, and marry whomever they want. They believe that society and life in general will work best if there are absolutely no standards or rules.
Well, it is not going to work. God did not create marriage equality. He simply created marriage. He defined it as a union between a man and a woman. He made them male and female. He is still making them that way. He is still recognizing marriage that way. A court can make a ruling. People can be forced to offer up licenses in accordance with human laws. But make no mistake: God is sovereign. He reigns from heaven. He knows what we are. He knows what marriage is. He created them both.
I am interested in equality. But not how man defines it. I am interested in every person having the same opportunity to know Jesus. I am interested in every person knowing God’s will and serving equally in society to be useful and to promote the eternal best interest of others. I am interested in everyone being treated the same regardless of their background or their current situation. But “Marriage Equality”? This is a man-made term that does not originate from above, but from beneath. There is only marriage. And marriage is beautiful, needing no human adjustments.
“And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” – Matthew 19:4-5
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