Let'em Grow (Until The Harvest)

The other day, the wife and I were cruising back home after an entertainment event on a warm summer evening.

I had noticed copious amounts of mopheaded, nude-armed, naked-legged, and soxlessly-flipflopped gals roaming around within being arrested for partial indecent exposure, and I noticed a quite a few Vote NO. Don't Limit The Freedom To Marry pro-homosexual-marriage lawn signs here and there.

I mentioned to the wife that the shorts exposing visually-assaultive nude legs which most of the public-nuisance gals were flaunting had gotten shorter this year, reminding me of the verse:

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

Ezekiel 16:27 Hey, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you [american whore-lookalikes] , and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines [or shawled-and-robed islamic-fundamentalist muslim women], who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 4:7 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

Seasonably and reluctantly donning winter parkas is no self-absolving self-atonement for flaunting the arms and legs and feet of seasonal warm weather. The summer sins of such immodesty are not compensated for by then redressing with the business and school blouses and skirts and slacks and boots of cooler weather.

Even my muslim friend Abderraouf (Abdul) Sellimi might agree.

Some self-righteous might impudently retort: "We're living under grace, not under legalistic law. Man looks on the outward; God looks at the heart."

Well, you can take your anti-legalistic-law cheap grace and immodestly-outward corrupt heart with you to Hell!

Is there still hope for the sorry-they-have-immodestly-sinned who have imposed non-solicited mopheadedness, nude arms, naked legs, and partially-bared feet against the saints and others in general?

First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the non-righteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
First Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

The best that I can wish for against relentlessly-impenitent gals who refuse to modestly and consistently keep their arms and legs and feet completely covered during warm weather is for those only to get severely and very-painfully sunburned (while the modestly-righteous escape):

Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch "men" [Gr. anthr(o)poi = both genders] with fire;
Revelation 16:9< men [Gr. anthr(o)poi = both genders] were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.

Will bonafide Christians always be annually besieged with warm-weather-excused-and-irrationalized bare arms and legs and feet of the pornographically-licentuous dirty-minded . . . despite being explicitly warned over and over?

No, they thankfully will not.

Second Samuel 23:6 But godless [immodesty-tolerating-and-approving] men [and warm-weather-immodest women] are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be taken with the hand;
Second Samuel 23:7 but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire in their place.

Proverbs 29:1 He [she] who is often reproved [about not being dressed immodestly with sleeveslessness and legs-denuded shorts and soxlessness in flipflops] , yet stiffens his [her] neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 33:12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

Acts 17:31 . . . because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, and of this He has given assurance to all men by raising Him from the dead.

But, for now:

Matthew 13:36 Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field."
37 He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man;
38 the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one,
39 and the enemy who planted them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
41 The Son of Man will send His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
42 and throw them [not merely "their sins"] into the furnace of fire; there "men" [women included] will weep and gnash their teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48 when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad [NO peaceful coexistence, NO integrated diversity with pollution, and NO tolerant anti-segregationalism].
49 So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
50 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
51 "Have you understood all this?" They said to Him, "Yes."
52 And He said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old."

Are the immodestly-wicked trying to proselitize their warm-weather indecency, and preach their accursed gospel of bodily defilement? Do they expect the righteous to cave in, adjust, conform, accommodate, live with it, get used to such live-person, nudist-park-similar, porno-lasciviousness of misattire?

Proverbs 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Isaiah 24:5 The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 64:6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous doings are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 3:1 "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many [warm-weather-immodest] lovers; and would you return to me?" says the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an [no-Israeli-settlements] Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
Jeremiah 3:9 Because harlotry was so [nitpicky-trifle] light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
Jeremiah 16:18 And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the [warm-weather-tanned] carcasses of their detestable [pornographic] idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

Ezekiel 20:43 And there you shall remember your ways and all the doings with which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

Second Timothy 3:12 Indeed all who desire to live a godly [burka and Hijab-modesty-equivalent] life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
13 while evil "men" [Gr. anthr(o)poi, meaning both genders] and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 that the "man" of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

First Peter 4:4 They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you;
First Peter 4:5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Revelation 22:11 Let the [heretic promoters of baring arms and legs and feet with sleeveslessness and summer shorts and soxless flipflips] evildoer still do evil, and the [harassingly-immodest] filthy still be filthy, and the [burka/hijab-like-modesty] righteous still do right, and the [decently-dressed] holy still be holy.

I mentioned to the wife about the pro-homosodomy lawn signs, and how demonically deceptive they were, as if the implication was that the Marriage Amendment was going to even forbid normal heterosexual marriage, the way it was misworded . . . and declared to the wife that such people are definitely headed for and going to go to Hell because of their flagrant, rebellious-defiant, cowardly-or-bullish support of implied also-homosexual marriages.

Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.

The wife countered with "Remember the penitent women caught in adultery who called Jesus 'Lord' and who Jesus instructed to 'go and sin no more.'

I then pointed out to her that the operative word there was: penitent, and I would correctly guess that most of the people who had the Don't Limit Freedom to Marry lawn signs know damn well what they are advocating - being that they were not born nor lived under some rock or in a secluded hermetically-sealed remote cave somewhere. Most of them probably at least once heard nationwide-evangelist Billy Graham and even Rev. Jerry Falwell or Pastor Tom Brock preach against the sin of homosexuality at one time or another, so:

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
21 for although they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him [or be dressed modestly during seasonably warm weather], but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools [not smart nor enlightened nor knowledgeable nor educated],
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal [sun-tanned] "man" or birds or animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the [indecently-immodest] dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
29 They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.

So, IS scant or massive doses of warm-weather female immodesty violating RSV's and NASV's and ESV's Numbers 5:18 and Song 7:5 (relating to public mopheaded of loose long hair hanging below mouth-level), II Samuel 13:18 (relating to naked arms exposed with sleevesless garments), Isaiah 47:1-4 (relating to nude legs exposed with shorts or shortened skirts), and Jeremiah 2:25 (relating to bare feet in sandals without socks) . . . from the outside . . . able to internally corrupt normal red-blooded men?

IS such indecent misattire simply an allowable expression of varieties of [benign and harmless] adiaphora merely different religious-denominational preferences which people should tolerate and adjust to . . . OR instead an condemnation-worthy anti-Biblical-morality devilishness causing divisive disharmony, disunity, and segregational alienation in and outside the church?

Matthew 15:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
2 "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not [ceremonially?] wash [the poop and the semen off of their?] their hands when they eat."
3 He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
5 But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'
6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
10 And He called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
11 not what goes into the mouth defiles a [cocksucking homo-pervert?] man, but what comes out of the mouth [bad breath? vomit?], this defiles a man."
12 Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
13 He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
14 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
15 But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
16 And He said, "Are you also still without understanding? [C'mon Christ, give us a break, and don't sass off to us about not immediately understanding application of your goofy parable]
17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?
18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the "heart" [whatever THAT is], and this defiles a man.
19 For out of the heart [there we go again with the apparently-metaphorical symbol] come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
20 These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

Mark 7:18 And He said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? [More impolitely-rude and intimidating sass?] Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside [including radioactive plutonium, ricin, ammonia, Drano, feces, menstrual blood, cyanide, VX nerve gas, discharged .45 caliber bullets?] cannot defile ["defile?"] him,
19 since it enters, not his heart but his stomach [not always] , and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean [including jewish pigs, bats and endangered America eagles?])
20 And He said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, [warm-weather indecent exposure of mopheadedness and nude-armed sleeveslessness and naked-legged slackslessness and noisy flipflops rhythmically slapping soles of bare feet without socks, abhorred by Mohammed in the Koran?], theft, murder, adultery,
22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."

So, regarding church unity and concerning division, do you [as Baptist Pastor Matt Morrell said] like Pepsi or instead Coke? Prefer Ford or rather Chevy? The Green Bay Packers or the Minnesota Vikings. [Restrained laughter came from the congregation in response to that one]. Republicans or Democrats? [No laughter concerning the upcoming 2012 November Election]

What does Scripture say about Obaminite's-quasi--plagiaristic-insignia Pepsi or instead Dr Pepper? Ford or rather Dodge? Jumping up and down with lively clapping at a negro Pentacostal service, or instead sedately contemplating meditatively inside an Episcopalian cathedral?

To each his own, to be sure. No need to force one kind or the other on anyone. Unity with acceptable diversity. . .

. . . unless it involves moral-vs-immoral issues as logically inferred or further specified in Holy Writ -- such as heretic and apostate diversions and pollutions with anti-creationist evolution mythology, anti-patriarchal sexist feminism, fool atheism, cultic-religion superstitions and idolatry, adocating womb-babe abortive infanticide, racist antisemitism, and caving in to homoqueer perversion.

What is acceptable and what is not acceptable in terms of clothing?

If there is no strict club-rule dress code regarding the mandatory wearing of adequately-modest uniforms, which colors can a church visitor or congregant entering the church sanctuary be dressed with? What kind of fabric(be it nylon, rayon, dacron, polyester, or cotton)? Are roomy [baggy] slacks as OK as a non-slitted long skirt?

Leviticus 19:19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not plant your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.

But . . . how about combining whatever harmless color or benign fabric . . . . with a little or a lot of [immodest] exposure of nude arms, naked legs, or toes-exposed bare feet?

What do YOU think - in view of all of what was stated above regarding Scriptural admonition pertaining to that?

First Timothy 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men,
2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.
3 This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 who desires all men [male and female persons] to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and there is one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher to the nations in faith and truth.
8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in decent apparel, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
10 but by good works, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve [worldwide, not simply in-church, application!];
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with sobriety.

If Eve had only known the horrendous humankind consequences of her irresponsible power-grab act of disobedience in The Garden succombing to the "Don't Limit The Freedom To Marry"-like satanically-overbroad lie of "Did God say that you shall not eat of any tree of the Garden? Perhaps Eve should have reponded: "No, you deceptively-despicable azhole" and repeated her understandably-scurrilous expletive in response to the to the Devil's quasi-lying remark of: "You will not die."

I do not know how much Adam and Eve discussed with God any elaboration of what it meant to "die." Perhaps they had not been adequately warned with graphic-enough details and description?

Whatever the case, God compensated with the simple gospel-of-Jesus antidote. So HE is not to blame, and neither are those humans who go along with Him. As for the others . . . the FCC might not allow me to write about them what I really think.

So, whose opinions are The Lord's? Who's 'Thus says the LORD' utterances should be believed? WHO is right, and which translation is correct?

Enter the same Holy Spirit, who had genuinely-inspired authors compose and compile the Sacred-66-books Judeo-Christian (Old-&-New-Testaments) Holy Bible.

Don't believe it is God's Word? Prove it wrong. Test it out. Don't be a noxious and absurd indecisive and doubting skeptic or agnostic - which would be nothing to be proud of. Either touch the hot stove or the high-voltage terminals . . . or do not. Pee or get off the pot. Make up your mind, and don't forever waver.

Don't mess with God and His Book. Play checkers with software from Gil Dodgen instead. It's MUCH safer. Trust me.

Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel, can avail against the LORD.