Cross Dressing in the Light of Your Fire!
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Cross-Dressing In The Light Of Your Fire
The Light of Your Fire
A False Light Leading To an Eternal
Fire
The Churches Fall Away … Apostasy
The Erasure of Gender Distinction in
Apparel
Lying Down In Your Sorrow
Christ Shall Give Thee Light!
The Woman’s Apparel … Her Worship
Precepts, Preferences, and Principles
Modest Apparel
Gender Distinction … Rooted In the
Creation
The Pants Issue
The Logic of Faith
This will be a controversial message … a
message for those who live in the end of
this age … the dispensation of the
church.
Our benchmark is
the word of God.
“The words of
the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in
a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD; thou shalt
preserve them from this generation for
ever.” [Psalm 12:6-7]
“Who is among
you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in
darkness, and hath no light? let him trust
in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.
Behold, all ye
that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your
fire, and in the sparks that ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye
shall lie down in sorrow.”
[Isaiah 50:10-11]
The Light of Your Fire
In January, 1977, when I exited the gate of
the U.S. Navy’s Treasure Island in
California for the last time I became a
civilian again. But I was not the same
civilian as I was before I went into the
Navy.
Before I went
into the Navy, I was in spiritual
darkness, “for ye were sometimes
darkness”. I also was
without hope. “That at the time ye
were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from
the covenants of promise, having no hope,
and without God in the world.”
(Ephesians 2:12) Further,
as a member of this old world, I was a hater
of God. To say it bluntly I was
living by the light of my own fire.
However, the man who went through that gate
in 1977 was no longer living by the light
of his own fire. He had found by the
grace of God the truth of the utter
fruitlessness of such an endeavor.
That endeavor is living by the light of
one’s own fire.
A False Light Leading To an Eternal Fire
“Behold, all
ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks: walk in the
light of your fire, and in the sparks that
ye have kindled.”
As a nation, and as individuals … we have
decided to walk in the light of our own
fire. This fire provides a false
light … a kind of light that leads to an
eternal fire.
We think we are
so wise and so greatly advanced in our
learning that the Bible [and the GOD of
that Bible] is irrelevant. But
friend let me tell you something! You
will need to BUCK the flow of this old world
in order to understand what is happening to
this old world.
Now STOP all this
running around with the wrong crowd!
They are lying to you. That Bible is
the most relevant book on the face of this
Earth. That BOOK tells us to reject
the light of our own fire, and to desire
to obtain that illumination provided by the
LIGHT of the pure words of God.
The Churches
Fall Away … Apostasy
What’s more … the Bible reveals who we are
and where we are in a timeline given for
human history.
(But you will
have to BELIEVE THE BOOK to understand where
we are within this great expanse of time.
This BOOK I am referring to is the
Authorized Version of 1611, or any of its
editions, and is also known as the King
James Bible).
That BOOK
indicates that we are living in the latter
times that are allocated to the Gentile
nations before God again turns to his
chosen nation, which is Israel.
We are living in
the Church Age or otherwise known as the Age
of Grace.
Further, this is
a period of time identified as a mystery,
and is a dispensation hid from ages and from
generations. “To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory:”
[Colossians 1:27].
Furthermore, the Bible reveals in the book
of the Revelation of Jesus Christ that this
particular part of the church age [which
we are now living in] began around the
year A.D. 1900.
This period of time is characterized by the last of the seven churches that are found in the first four chapters of this book [The Revelation]. The church is identified as the church of Laodicea. (Revelation 3:14-22) This church is lukewarm in its love and devotion to Jesus Christ in the estimation of God. It is a church caught basking in the light of its own fire. It is a church that thinks it is rich and loves its own light, not wanting the LIGHT of God’s word.
Now, what does God think of all this?
He says that they are “wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”
God counsels this church to be clothed in
“white raiment” so as to cover the shame
of its nakedness … and REPENT, verses 18-19.
Apostasy is what
is found in this church. The Scripture
here shows that this church of Laodicea had
fallen away from the LORD Jesus Christ and
his BOOK.
[This is true
[in a literal sense]
concerning a literal church in Asia
Minor.)
However, this same
Scripture has a fulfillment in a future
event (in a prophetic sense). It
points to the apostasy that would run
rampant in our day.
“Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition.” [2
Thessalonians 2:4]
The last part of the church age is therefore
characterized by APOSTASY in the churches.
The Bible’s precepts, principles, and
commands in the last one hundred years have
become so many shades of gray to the
vast multitude of Christians. We
were a nation that had a heritage rooted in
biblical traditions. America, in
its very roots, had a godly heritage.
This was till the robber came and stole our
sense of absolutes, and had supplanted in
its place his shades of gray.
The fruit of the Great Awakening in the
eighteenth century, and the revivals in the
nineteenth century, affected all our
inhabitants, and permeated its institutions,
its laws and it traditions.
Men and women
modeled their marriages and
families after the biblical model.
Even those unregenerate human hearts
in our population felt this restraint from
doing evil. This placed a check on our
nation from going too far wayward from THE
LAW of God (The Ten Commandments).
As long as we
were a nation that revered and believed the
old black BOOK, the King James Bible,
we would enjoy God’s blessings as an
American Gentile nation whom God placed in
the latter part of the sixth millennium
years of human history.
Believing the
BOOK is paramount to everything that matters
in this life and holds the KEY to a correct
understanding of history. BELIEVING is
the KEY to a proper understanding of the
Bible.
We need to
observe two more keys in this
sequence. The key to our
understanding of the Old Testament … is
the book of Revelation. The key
to our understanding of the New
Testament ... is the Old Testament.
“For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.” [Romans
15:4]
The Erasure of Gender Distinction in Apparel
If the subject of
cross-dressing is controversial, it is
because the sparks that were kindled came
from the fires of controversy, in
particular, from the Laodicea rights
movements of the eighteenth century.
(Laodicea
means: “the rights of the people”.)
The practice
of cross-dressing itself began around 1850
among the women who
walked in the light of their own fire.
A peculiar invention, which came of this fire is called the pant-skirt suit, or better known as Bloomers.
Elizabeth Smith
Miller, who was the daughter of Gerrit
Smith, designed this cross-dressing
garment, which consisted of skirts reaching
just below the knee and incorporated Turkish
trousers.
Amelia Jenks
Bloomer adopted this garment and promoted
Bloomers wherever she went in her fight
to promote women’s rights.
Feminism as a
rights movement was born. The rights of the
people!
The Devil smiled!
Gender Distinction
Up until this time, America maintained the
gender distinction in its apparel in
obedience to the word of God.
“The woman
shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment: for all that do so are abomination
unto the LORD thy God.”
[Deuteronomy 22:5]
This command
given in Deuteronomy was to the nation of
Israel. God clearly established
that the design of the man’s clothing was to
be distinctly different from the design of
the woman’s clothing. He considered it
an abomination for a man or a woman to
cross-dress.
This precept or
command had its origins in the very creation
account as shown in the book of Genesis.
“So God
created man in his own image, in the image
of God created he him, male and female
created he them.”
[Genesis 1:27]
God wants the
lines of distinction between male and
female to be maintained.
Any attempt to break down this distinct line
of demarcation, or any attempt to blur,
or erase this distinction is rebellion
to God’s revealed will.
The rights
movements have promoted the grays.
The shades of gray is the color
of their banner, and their cross-dressing
apparel is the badge of their REBELLION.
Another hero of
the feminist movement was Mary Edwards
Walker.
(Note a
peculiar thing for the eighteenth century.
She refused to take the last name of her
husband when she married Albert Miller.)
Mary was an
early proponent of
cross-dressing for women, and supported the
efforts of Amelia Bloomer to eliminate the
restrictive gender distinctive
clothing rooted in the heritage of
our nation. During the Civil War
when this cross-dresser was in
confinement, a Confederate captain commented
to his wife that he and others were amused
and disgusted by the "thing that nothing
but the debased and deprived Yankee nation
could produce." Indeed, for the
cross-dressing apparel that Mary adopted
came as a result of her father being a rebel
himself. His “free thinking” interest
in the rights movement of the nineteenth
century nurtured this cross-dressing
appetite of his daughter.
The Devil smiled.
“Mary proudly wore feminine curls
in her hair but continued wearing male
clothing in civilian life and was often
arrested. She opened a colony for women
named Adamlesss Eden in 1897”,
Appleton’s Encyclopedia, Copyright ©
2001 Virtualology TM.
The third member of this feminist
triumvirate was Aurore Lucie Dupin, or known
most of her life by her male name of
George Sands. Aurore, or
George, openly shook her fist in the
face of God by calling marriage “a form
of slavery”. Not only did
she wear men’s trousers and smoke cigars,
she was of loose morals. In other
words, she was a carousing fornicator.
The Devil smiled.
These three women had become the agents
of change in our land.
By the year 1900,
the leavening process had now begun
to undermine our homes, marriages, families
and national institutions.
“Your glorying
is not good. Know ye not that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
[1 Corinthians 5:6]
After World War
I, during the roaring twenties, the
women’s skirt length shortened in a
deliberate marked movement towards
immodesty. Woman began to show the
leg. God calls this nakedness.
The debauchery of America was continuing,
and the Devil smiled.
America was
caught basking in the light of its own
fire.
Lying Down In Your Sorrow
There is an old
saying out there that is as old as the
hills. “The chickens will come home
to roost!!!” Those chickens have come
home to roost!
“Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
[Galatians 6:7] We are reaping the
consequences of our sin. We are lying
down in sorrow. What is worse we are
lying down in sorrow because God brought us
to the sorrow.
“This shall ye
have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in
sorrow.”
We have seen the seeds of destruction
being sown over the last several
generations. The lines of
demarcation between the sexes have been
broken down in a total rebellion to God.
This rebellion has been to the hurt of us
all ... especially to our children, and
to our children’s children.
Marriages have
been ruined, and the
divorces have broken up our homes.
Many lives have been destroyed! The
children have been confused and made angry.
The Devil is the only winner here!
“Ye shall lie
down in sorrow.”
One sin gives
birth to another sin. Sodomy is
filling the land. Our
slippery slide to our destruction (to lie
in our bed of SORROW) is a fulfillment of
this promise from God: “be sure your sin
will find you out.” [Numbers 32:23b)]
When the infamous
feminist triumvirate had finished their
work, the seeds of destruction that were
sown began to attack and break down the
infrastructure of our marriages and of our
families in America. Women were
deceived by the lie of the Devil all over
again and men were the willing partners!
“Yea, hath God said,” [Genesis 3:1)]
“The woman
shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man.”
What’s wrong with
wearing trousers if they have been
feminized? “Let’s wear them.”
Now after decades
of this cross-dressing practice, any
sane individual can see looking back with
twenty-twenty hindsight (if he or she is
honest) that something has gone wrong.
Disorder has been brought to us, into
our lives, into our homes, and into our
national institutions. Today
anyone can ask legitimately, “Who wears
the pants in your family?” Good
question!
The Devil has a
smile on his face.
We are walking in
the light of our own fire. We are lying
down in our sorrow. If there is any modesty
or orderliness left in America, it is
because there are a few Bible–believing
women clinging by faith to the pure words of
God, which proclaim: “the woman
shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man.”
Christ Shall Give Thee Light
“Who is among
you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in
darkness, and hath no light? let him trust
in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.”
If you are one who can admit to yourself,
and to God, that “the light of your fire”
is a self-generated light, which will
only give you a false light and a light that
will only lead you into error, then you are
a candidate that God can use as a useful
servant. You will throw the light of
your fire into a trashcan, in order to
receive the light that Jesus Christ offers.
The light of
your fire… is really
darkness.
“For ye were
sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in
the Lord: walk as children of light.”
(Ephesians 5:8)
Once a person is
born again (spiritually born) he or
she is able to discern the way he should go
in his path because the illumination shining
into the soul is the light of Jesus Christ.
“Proving what
is acceptable unto the Lord”
[Ephesians 5:10] becomes a vision of how you
are to “present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service.” [Romans
12:1]
The command that follows: “And be not
conformed to this world” comes as a
result of “proving what is acceptable
unto the Lord.” [Romans 12:2]
“But all
things that are reproved are made manifest
by the light: for whatsoever doth make
manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
See then that
ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as
wise, Redeeming the time, because the days
are evil. Wherefore be ye not
unwise, but understanding what the will of
the Lord is.” [Ephesians
5:13-17]
The Woman’s Apparel … Her worship to God
What is the will of the LORD in this matter
of women’s apparel? Let’s turn to 1
Timothy chapter two:
“I exhort
therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giving of thanks, be made for all men;
For kings, and
for all that are in authority; that we may
lead a quiet and peaceable life in all
godliness and honesty.
For this is
good and acceptable in the sight of God our
Saviour;
Who will have
all men to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth.
For there is
one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave
himself a ransom for all, to be testified in
due time.
Whereunto I am
ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I
speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a
teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
I will
therefore that men pray every where, lifting
up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
In like manner
also, that women adorn themselves in modest
apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety;
not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls,
or costly array;
But (which
becometh women professing godliness) with
good works.
Let the woman
learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer
not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority
over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was
first formed, then Eve.” (1
Timothy 2:1-13)
In that same year that I exited that Navy
base gate and had become a civilian again
(albeit as a new creature in Christ,
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.”),
the earth of northeastern Vermont was still
covered with the deep white blanketing snow.
It was then that
I had gotten to know a man by the name of
Ronald Powers. There quickly
developed a bond between the two of us.
The commonality we had in Jesus
Christ had knitted our hearts
together.
The bottom line
was this, we loved to talk BIBLE to each
other.
“Iron
sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the
countenance of his friend.”
[Proverbs 27:17]
I remember one
particular subject he excitedly brought to
me. It was something rather
earth shattering to me at the time that
he had gotten from his cousin. He
said, “See look here at this.” He
was pointing to 1 Timothy chapter two, and
in particular, the phrase found in verse
nine: “In like manner also,”
For this phrase, “in like manner also”
ties together with a conjunction whatever
God is telling men to do (as a means)
with whatever women are to do (as a means
to a desired end as determined by the
context of the passage).
What then, is the
context of this scripture? It’s
“that men pray everywhere, lifting up
holy hands” to God. Prayer lies on
a vertical plane … the upward direction to
God from man.
In verse 8, men
are commanded to worship by prayer.
Women are to adorn themselves “in modest
apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety.”
This also,
involves something in the vertical plane …
the upward direction to God from man
(mankind). In verse 9, women are commanded
to worship by adorning in modest
apparel.
God gives his
directive to the man … first.
Everything in its proper order. God then
gives his directive to the woman … second.
This reflects the creation order found in
Genesis. These directives, or
commands, are completely and entirely
spiritual in nature.
Therefore,
prayer for the man and the adorning
of modest apparel for the woman involve a
spiritual transaction with a Spirit. [1
Timothy 2:8-10]
This is because
the one who has given these commands is a
Spirit.
“God is a
Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.”
[John 3:24]
The spiritual
nature of these transactions is precisely
and diametrically opposite to the spirit and
the course of this world.
Precepts, Preferences and Principles
In this era of
apostasy the Laodicea spirit has given us
myopic vision. We no longer can
discern between precepts, principles and
preferences.
Precepts:
precepts are the clear commands of God.
“Thou shalt
not commit adultery” is a
clear command. Exodus 20:14 is capable
of standing alone without the aid of any
other scripture to support it.
If this were the
only verse in the Bible on the subject of
adultery we would know with great certainty
the mind of God in this matter.
His desire is for all men and women
everywhere to not commit adultery. God
has revealed his will here without the
possibility of any doubt.
Preferences: preferences are just our preferences.
They are our
personal opinion about matters of no real
importance ... of no real consequence
in terms of eternity. They may be
preferences that our neighbor may have for
his rule of life and may even have some
biblical merit, yet God is expecting us to
give others some room to hold a
differing opinion from ours … to be
expressed.
God instructs us
to honor or respect another brother or
sister in their beliefs or practices that
have no real import to the precepts and
commands of the Bible.
“One man
esteemeth one day above another: another
esteemeth every day alike. Let every
man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
He that
regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the
Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to
the Lord he doth not regard it. He
that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he
giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not,
to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God
thanks.” [Romans
14:5-6]
Principles: principles on the other hand
are a revelation of how God feels about a
certain matter that is ascertained by
comparing scripture with scripture.
Let
us see how a principle is
established.
“In like
manner also, that women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefacedness and
sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or
pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh
women professing godliness) with good
works.”
In this subject
verse it is not clear what the word
“adorn” or what the word “modest”
means “in modest apparel”.
We need to search God’s word for any other
references to “adorn” or to be
“modest” or the variations of these two
words in order to learn what they mean.
Modest Apparel
Our subject verse (I
Timothy 2:9) is the only verse of the Bible
where the word “modest” appears.
In this case, we can turn to a good
concordance. The word “modest”
in its root or primary sense means
“orderly” according to Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible.
Therefore the
apparel that a woman is to “adorn”
herself with is to be orderly
apparel.
Next: let’s list
all the references to the word adorn (in
addition to 1 Timothy 2:9).
1. “Not
purloining, but shewing all good fidelity;
that they may adorn the doctrine of God our
saviour in all things.” [Titus
2:10]
2.
“Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be
built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again
be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go
forth in the dances of them that make
merry.” [Jeremiah 31:4]
3. “And as
some spake of the temple, how it was adorned
with goodly stones and gifts, he said.”
[Luke 21:5]
4. “For after
this manner in the old time the holy women
also, who trusted in God, adorned
themselves, being in subjection unto their
own husbands.” [1 Peter 3:5]
5. “And I John
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.”
[Revelation 21:3]
6. “I will
greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall
be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me
with the garments of salvation, he hath
covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with
ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself
with her jewels.” [Isaiah 61:10]
7. “Whose
adorning let it not be that outward adorning
of plaiting the hair, and the wearing of
gold, or of putting on of apparel;” [1
Peter 3:3].
In Titus 2:10 it shows that we as believers
need to adorn the doctrine of God in
all things. All true believers in
Christ Jesus (as a group) are identified
as the body of Christ, which is called
the church. [Colossians 1:24]
The church is
always identified as a bride.
By the above seven verses the word
“adorn” is always used in the Bible to
refer to a female activity: i.e., “as a
bride adorned for her husband” and
“as a bride adorneth herself”. In
Jeremiah 31:4 it’s: “O virgin of Israel:
thou shalt again be adorned …”, and
again it’s a female activity.
(Israel is a type of a woman.)
Only with the
physical temple in Jerusalem in Luke 21:5 is
there not a direct reference to a female
activity. But even here we need to
remember the temple is a type of the New
Testament believer.
Men deck themselves (“decketh” as in Isaiah 61:10) and women “adorn” themselves according to the pure words of God.
Gender Distinction … Rooted In the Creation
Furthermore, for the woman, her apparel is
to be orderly or showing order.
The design of women’s apparel should be
“modest” showing the creation order by their
adorning “themselves, being in
subjection unto their own husbands.”
“For the man
is not of the woman; but the woman for the
man.” [1 Corinthians 11:8]
God created the
man first, then he created the woman
second. Her apparel will be
modest if it reflects the order
found in the creation as recorded in
Genesis. Her apparel will be modest
if it shows her worship to God as
we found earlier in 1 Timothy 1:9.
Her apparel will be modest if it
maintains the gender distinction as
commanded to Israel in Deuteronomy 22:5:
“The woman
shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment: for all that do so are abomination
unto the LORD thy God.”
The Pants Issue
We have in the
Bible the following references to
garments or apparel:
1.
Robe or Robe:
36 instances: Exodus 28:4,
8, 27, 31, 34, 39, Exodus 29:5, Exodus
39:22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Leviticus 8:7,
2 Samuel 13:18, 1 Samuel 18:4, 1Samuel
24:4, 11, 1 Kings 22:10, 1 Kings 22:30, 1
Chronicles 15:27, 2 Chronicles 18:9, 29, Job
29:14, Isaiah 22:21, Isaiah 61:10,
Ezekiel 26:16, Jonah 3:6, Micah 2:8, Mt
27:28, 31, Luke 15:22, Luke 20:46, Luke
23:11, John 19:2, 5, Revelation 6:11,
Revelation 7:9, 13,14.
2.
Cloke: 7 instances
(3 as a garment):
Matthew 5:40, Luke 6:29, 2Timothy
4:13.
3.
Coat or coats: 34
instances: Genesis 3:21, Genesis 37:3, 23,
31, 32, 33, Exodus 28:4, 39, 27, 40, Exodus
29:5, 8, Exodus 39:27, Exodus 40:14,
Leviticus 8:7, 13, Leviticus 10:5,
Leviticus 16:4, 1 Samuel 2:19, 1 Samuel
17:5, 1 Samuel 17:38, 2 Samuel 15:32, Job
30:18, Song of Solomon 5:3, Daniel 3:21, 27,
Matthew 5:40, Matthew 10:10, Mark 6:9, Luke
3:11, Luke 6:29, Luke 9:3, John 19:23, John
21:7, Acts 9:39.
4.
Breastplate: 24
instances.
5.
Ephod: 42 instances.
An ephod is placed in a robe.
6.
Mitre: 9 instances.
7.
Girdle: 34 instances.
8.
Mantle: 13 instances:
a type of Cloke
9.
Breeches: 5
instances.
The book of
Exodus makes it real clear that a coat
and a robe are not the same garment.
Two things different are not the same.
See for this the second book of Moses
called Exodus, chapter twenty-eight, verse
four:
“And these
are the garments which they shall make;
a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and
a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and
they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy
brother, and his sons, that he may minister
unto me in the priest's office.”
[Exodus 28:4]
The coat most
commonly is an upper outer garment,
whereas a robe was more a full length
outer garment.
The English
Dictionary of 1828 defines: COAT: An
upper garment, of whatever material it
may be made.
·
God made coats of
skin and clothed them. Genesis 3.
·
Jacob made Joseph a
coat of many colors. Genesis 37.
·
He shall put on the
holy linen coat. Leviticus 16.
·
Goliath was armed
with a coat of mail. 1 Samuel 17.
The English
Dictionary of 1828 defines: ROBE: A kind of
gown or long loose garment worn over other
dress, particularly by persons in elevated
stations. The robe is properly a dress of
state or dignity, as of princes, judges,
priests, &c. See Exodus 29:5, 1 Samuel 24:4,
Matthew 27:28.
Robes were
special use, and coats were common.
Now let us go for
the breeches or britches in the
Bible.
There are only five recorded instances of
breeches (also known as pants or
trousers) being worn in the Bible, and
all five times men are wearing them.
(See God’s instructions concerning
“breeches” in Exodus 28:42,
39:28, Leviticus 6:10, 16:4 and Ezekiel
44:18.) Never in the pure words
of God are breeches or pants
shown to be a woman’s garment.
In the Gentile
nations from the beginnings of the times of
the Gentiles in Genesis till the beginning
of twentieth century men wore the pants
and the women wore the dresses.
Regardless of the
exact nature of the apparel down through the
expanse of time, the truth is, wherever
God’s BOOK was revered, men and women
maintained a sense of right and wrong and
upheld the PRINCIPLE of women adorning
themselves in modest dresses, and not
wearing “that which pertaineth unto a
man.”
Once we take this
principle as God’s will for us much
confusion will be eliminated in our homes,
in our churches and in the concourses of
our nation.
The Logic of Faith
Though this was a
controversial message … it was a message we
need to hear today, for we are those who
live in the times of the great religious
apostasy in the end of an age, which is
known as the dispensation of the church.
One of the reasons that we are in such a
deplorable state as individuals, and as a
nation, (living in the light of our own
fire, and consequently, lying down in
our sorrow) is because of the practice
of CROSS-DRESSING. We ought not be
this kind of nation, or be this kind of
people! We are found by God to be
basking in the light of our own fire!
Because God’s hand of judgment is upon
us, we are lying down in our own sorrow!
We need to REPENT!
“Wherefore he
saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise
from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
light.”
Now my friend, if you are guilty in this
matter before God concerning this sin of
cross-dressing, and your heart is heavy
laden with a godly sorrow because of
this message, then repent!
If the conviction
of the Holy Ghost is upon you, then now,
while you are inclined by the light of his
word of truth, repent!
If you see that
modest apparel is both a physical
and a spiritual transaction and is of
great importance to Jesus Christ the Son of
God, REPENT!
Friends, we need
to identify the spirit of this age in this
practice of cross-dressing and
deliberately WALK in the OPPOSITE
DIRECTION.
We need to obey
God and leave the consequences of obeying
God with God. No one should have to
ask you any longer about who is wearing
the pants in your home? It will be a
given. Maybe, as a result of this
message, you have become convinced that you
are without Jesus Christ and have never been
saved. If you are not saved, then, may
I plead with you to trust in Him now!
“But as many
as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name.” [John
1:12] Amen!
Now here it is: The Logic of Faith!
Understand the time you live in!
Get your
bearings!
In this
dispensation it is given unto us to
individually respond in obedience to the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and receive by FAITH
the Son of God … Jesus Christ … as our
personal Lord and Savior. Amen!
Amen! Amen!
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