Gino (27 Aug 2023)
"rainbow"


Didn't the LORD give the rainbow as a sign that he would not destroy the world again by flood?

Genesis 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

  15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


Then in the Olivet discourse given in Matthew, Jesus mentions that his coming will be like the days of Noe, when they were destroyed by a flood:

Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

  38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

  39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

So, could the adoption of the rainbow by LBGT, be an attempt to show that their using the rainbow "proves" that they won't be destroyed in a worldwide flood?
i.e. a prideful way to try and "disprove" what Jesus said in Matthew 24, by using Genesis 19:13,15 against that?
If so, they seem to have forgotten, that when Jesus spoke in Luke 17, he added the days of Lot, to the account:
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

  27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

  29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

  30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.


Here, Jesus is talking about the judgment of fire, which is also, going to happen again, in the future.

II Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.


II Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;


Could that "after" be referring to our days, now?

And since the days of Lot, in Genesis 19, describe a city mad with sodomy, on the eve of destruction,
could that, along with those currently using the rainbow, tie things more, these days, with the days of Lot in Sodom?
Is that another form of turning the grace God (rainbow) into lasciviousness (Sodom)?

On a related note, I don't know of Christians, these days, praying much for the souls of, and witnessing much to, LGBT people.
Is it like a pocket veto? That if we don't witness to them, they won't get saved, and they'll die in their sins and go to hell?
Do many, today, secretly want all the LGBT to go to hell?
(I'm speaking to myself, as well - would I rather see them all go to hell?)
What about Jesus? Does he want them all to go to hell?

II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.


Are LGBT excluded from the words "any" and "all", used in that scripture?

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