Abomination in the Holy Place

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. (2Kings 23:7)

Ever wondered why abominable characters seek recognition though they know that their conduct is against societal norms?

Why should a harlot seek to be recognized by society when she knows that her whole profession thrives on secrecy? Or have you seen a man visiting a harlot, or even a brothel in the full glare of society? Have you ever heard a man informing his wife that he will be passing by a harlot before coming home or when on a working trip?

On the other side, have you ever heard of a woman informing her husband that she will be out to make an extra coin as a harlot?

And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. (Genesis 38:23)

Sin thrives in secrecy. Or do you not remember Adam hiding from God?

Why then is there so much effort at making sin that thrives in secret visible?

It has all to do with rebellion. It has to do with the evil one’s strategy of overrunning and probably overthrowing God’s strategy of leading the world into His redemptive agenda.

I have recently written extensively about rebellion and so will not dwell there much though it is the backdrop of what God has me share.

Normalizing sin is the first instalment of a whole cocktail of stratagem of turning society against God. And it is so because it is aimed at children.

You see, a child has no values but the ones he sees. He has not developed the mechanisms to assess everything he sees because he has no prior experience dealing with them.

That is why a child will comfortably play with a venomous snake or ferocious wild animal without a worry in the world.

Children have no awareness of tribe, race or color. They will pick those prejudices from their exposure to the people they respect, especially the parents.

A child will know they are different when they encounter another child with a prejudice against them and not when they meet a different person or community.

The strategy is therefore to saturate the child with wickedness and abomination so that he will think that is the norm. he will thus defend that norm against anything seeking its overthrow, even if the One seeking that overthrow is God Himself.

That is the reason we read of sodomites operating by God’s house. And for me that is amazing in its blatancy.

We may think of this as an affront to God but I think that is not the end game.

The leadership wanted to make sodomy normal to God’s people, especially the next generation.

Imagine seeing them every time you were going to worship!

One will initially be appalled at the audacity of that abomination. But do nothing much because it had the green light of the temple leadership. And how it got that greenlight will eventually become more painful to your spirit.

Is that not happening in the church of our day?

How many senior clergymen are bold enough to call out sodomy for starters? How many preachers can openly and boldly speak against sexual immorality?

How many church and Christian leaders are willing to call out the witchcraft being practiced in church packaged as anointing?

Not so long ago I met some infuriated members of this mega church. Why were they so mad?

An openly gay global celebrity visited their church and was given a chance to address the church, not to repent.

Is that different from the verse I have quoted?

What was that church leadership saying to their children, more so in this age and time?

Fame is more important than morals. Being a celebrity is more important than living according to God’s laws. That fame can open doors even God has closed.

What kind of damage has that leadership caused in this impressionable mind, however much the offering this celebrity gave?

What will guide this young mind when the time comes to make pivotal decisions concerning their life and walk with God?

And you will realise that this happens in many and varied ways according to the compromise level of the leadership. It many times happens because of the level of compromise in the leadership.

Let me give an example.

A very key leader of the church divorces but can’t be removed from leadership because he is the key to the church’s expansion trajectory. Another is caught in corruption and can’t be removed because they brought their whole company to church and could in anger redirect a majority of them to another church if he is removed. Another is caught in sin but can’t be removed because he is the single funder of the prayer program in the church.

Before the spiritual leadership notices, the church has been taken over by characters whose only qualification for leadership is the money and people (same thing) they are bringing to church as opposed to their spiritual stature.

Those are the people who are then used to build those sodomy cubicles around the holy place.

A bishop didn’t just start saying that people should be allowed to love whichever way they would (the latest buzzword supporting homosexuality). He was slowly held captive by compromises, initially innocent compromises to what he believed was God’s revealed truth. And not because he stopped believing that truth.

Lot first built overlooking Sodom. But at the end of the story, he was a leader in Sodom. And do not tell me he didn’t know what was happening. That is why he was in such a hurry to take the angels inside his house before ….

Why was he unable to dent the morals of that rotten place with his righteousness?

Once you allow a small compromise to touch you, it later becomes impossible to deal even with rampant sin.

At first, Lot was a neighbor. Then he probably got a friend or two. Later he needed the city for security. Until he became part of that abomination as we see with his daughters and wife. Not forgetting his daughters had even found spouses in Sodom.

I therefore do not want you to think that what I am writing about is far-fetched. It is closer home than you think.

That innocent compromise is the first step in the journey to exhibiting abomination in the holy place.

That fear to confront a loved one when they stray ever so slightly from the straight and narrow is the first step towards having a Jezebel taking over your kingdom like Ahab or infidels overthrowing your worship as happened to Solomon.

Allow me to leave this post here to give you a chance to examine your life in the little light I have shed.