Tweets - December 12th - Sodom

Chile I woke up this Sunday morning, saw a friend talking about the "love of God" on facebook, saw a tweet about the 1400 earthquakes that struck Puerto Rico in the last 30 days, and felt like preaching the gospel.

I was led to Sodom and Gomorrah. According to Ezekiel: "This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it." ~ Ezekiel 16

Now, something happened to Sodom a long time ago, it happened so fast and the news of it was so strange that it echoed over the centuries. I don't know, maybe a bright meteor shower fell out of the sky and landed right on those people. That alone would have been enough to share with your children and your children's children. Ezekiel was led to believe that they were inflicted by God's judgment (I'm a bit more skeptical). But what I do know is that God watched and was not about to stop any of those meteors from destroying those cities.

Do you rejoice in these things? Just as God did not save Sodomites from falling meteors, God did not save a 3rd of Europeans from the bubonic plague, nor did God save millions of Jews from being massacred by Hitler, nor did God save Native Americans from the violence and diseases of English settlers, nor did God spare any enslaved African from any of them.

The "love of God" they preach. There are over 7 billion people currently on death row, and not a single one of them have trusted the brutal honesty and severity of God. Sure, people have believed what God has given them (it's impossible not to do so), so they fear the future and plan and prepare accordingly, but people disagree within themselves and instead preach "God's love". There is powerful wisdom in becoming honest with yourself. But instead, we force into our children, "Do not believe what you see God doing to us." No such lying people, nor their children, should ever expect to be spared from death row. It is in death that people will understand that the Living God cannot be found there.

Ezekiel understood God, and knew through experience that whatever God destroys, God rebuilds - and by his understanding, he was able to prophesy: "I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and I will restore your own fortunes along with theirs, in order that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consoling comfort to them. Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you are a mockery to those all around who despise you. You must bear the consequence of your lewd and abominable conduct, says Yahweh." ~ Ezekiel 16

First Sodom, then through them and through God's restorative power, the other 7 billion. Yes dear, a fag will lead you to God - you will by no other means be granted access.