Holy Homosexuals

Sorcery has created a different path from scripture to follow to become a minister of Jesus Christ. It is in this new path that evil was introduced—the changing of "the glory of the uncorruptible God" (Romans 1:23) into "the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:4). As we stated in "The Principality of Tradition" section, the training for becoming a minister of the gospel has been given to institutions of higher learning. This path does not necessarily mean one has to be a Christian or even called by God. This new path is articulated in the following article:

Educational requirements for entry into the Protestant ministry vary greatly. Many denominations require, or at least strongly prefer, a bachelor's degree followed by study at a theological seminary. However, some denominations have no formal educational requirements, and others ordain persons having various types of training from Bible colleges or liberal arts colleges. Many denominations now allow women to be ordained, but others do not. Persons considering a career in the ministry should first verify the ministerial requirements with their particular denomination.

In general, each large denomination has its own schools of theology that reflect its particular doctrine, interests, and needs. However, many of these schools are open to students from other denominations. Several interdenominational schools associated with universities give both undergraduate and graduate training covering a wide range of theological points of view.

In [2002], the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada accredited [216] Protestant denominational theological schools. These schools only admit students who have received a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from an accredited college. After college graduation, many denominations require a 3-year course of professional study in one of these accredited schools, or seminaries, for the degree of Master of Divinity.

The standard curriculum for accredited theological schools consists of four major categories: Biblical studies, history, theology, and practical theology. Courses of a practical nature include pastoral care, preaching, religious education, and administration. Many accredited schools require that students work under the supervision of a faculty member or experienced minister. Some institutions offer Doctor of Ministry degrees to students who have completed additional study—usually 2 or more years—and served at least 2 years as a minister. Scholarships and loans often are available for students of theological institutions.

Persons who have denominational qualifications for the ministry usually are ordained after graduation from a seminary or after serving a probationary pastoral period. Denominations that do not require seminary training ordain clergy at various appointed times. Some churches ordain ministers with only a high school education.

Women and men entering the clergy often begin their careers as pastors of small congregations or as assistant pastors in large churches. Pastor positions in large metropolitan areas or in large congregations often require many years of experience.⁷³

Now, let us compare what this article sets forth to what the Word of God stipulates as the path to becoming a minister of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself set forth the stipulation when he was addressing his disciples: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you" (John 15:16). Thus, God chooses ("calls") ministers of Jesus Christ and ordains them—gives them authority and power, a specific mission, and directions on how to fulfill the mission—in the ministry to which he has called them (see "Spiritual Leadership 101" for more on this). "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers" (Ephesians 4:11). The following set of scriptures further illustrates God's process:

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease ... These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. (Matthew 10:1, 5-8)

Thus by allowing man to choose we have cast aside God's process: "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye" (Mark 7:13). As such, people that God would not have chosen are entering and have entered the ministry; these reprobate persons have been allowed to enter what is sacred.

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. (Jeremiah 18:11-12)

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (Romans 1:26-28)

How can someone given over to a spirit of sodomy serve the Lord in a leadership capacity? "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error" (2 Peter 2:18). "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump" (1 Corinthians 5:6)? "This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified" (Leviticus 10:3). Let us examine the requirements for a priest under the Old Covenant:

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. (Leviticus 21:16-24)

The physical blemishes listed above were simply examples of a spiritual reality. Just like a physical blemish marred the body of a person, a spiritual blemish mars the spirit of person. As in the Old Covenant, God did not choose priests that were physically blemished; so too, under the New Covenant, he does not choose ministers of Jesus Christ that are spiritually blemished. A person given over to a spirit of sodomy is blemished (reprobate) and is not worthy to serve the Lord in this role. "Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods" (2 Chronicles 13:9). Moreover, not only are there entrance criteria, the Lord "polices" the world for transgressions against his Word and takes corrective action. Examine the example of Uzzah:

Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. ... And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day. (2 Samuel 6:1-3, 6-8)

And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it. And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: ... And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. (1 Chronicles 15:1-4, 12-14)

In addition, under the New Covenant, more requirements are stipulated in the third chapter of the first book of Timothy and in the first chapter of Titus. To serve in a local church as an elder (bishop), a minister of Jesus Christ must be male, and, if married, married to a female. Moreover, he must be blameless: "righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord" (Luke 1:6). In addition this person must "be able by sound doctrine" to defend the Word of God.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. (Titus 1:6-9)

Sound doctrine, however, is not possible since those that embrace the spirit of sodomy are already "contrary to sound doctrine." "But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. (Jeremiah 7:23-24). Thus, "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God" (2 John 1:9). And if they are not in the doctrine of Christ, they are under the law. "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust" (1 Timothy 1:9-11). Complete rejection of this unclean spirit (homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, cross-dressing, transgender, etc.), repentance from sins, renouncement of all false decisions and beliefs, and full deliverance of all the associated evil spirits is necessary.

The question that arises from some is what should be done about those who have been ordained by man yet were not chosen by God? The answer is simple; remove them from office, much as was done to the false priests in Ezra's time:

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim. (Ezra 2:61-63)

The blame for admitting "gay ministers" lies with very liberal, apostate churches that have bowed to the pressures of the world and are embracing concepts like "religious tolerance" and "open-mindedness." These wayward churches, much like the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jesus day, have created their own "bible" which allows them to glorify self and not God. "For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God" (Romans 10:2-3).

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