LUST

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).1

Lust has no regard for love, although it will put up with it long enough to gain its hold and overcome all vestiges of it.  The mutual consent of two people to use one another to satisfy lust mutes that fact that both are taking from each other.  Lust for money, lust for power, and lust for sex begin to define the person in terms of lust as love is destroyed from every particle of his or her being.  Lust is the natural response in mankind in the absence of love.  Proponents of lust put a veil over it and call it that which they wish it was or that which they think others would like it to be.

Jesus told us that the end times would be as it was in the days of Noah.

 "But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

For as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

In (those) days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark.

They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be (also) at the coming of the Son of Man.

Two men will be out in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.2

Matthew 24:36-42

In the days that Noah walked with God the times were evil and violence had broken out on all of the earth.  Being called Nephilim had come down to the earth and had sexual intercourse with women.  Apparently the angels provoked something unnatural among humans in this practice.  Jude compares the practices to that which occurred with homosexuality in Sodom and Gomorrah.

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.

Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Similarly, these dreamers nevertheless also defile the flesh, scorn lordship, and revile glorious beings.3

Jude 1:6-7

Those who hate God and His Son, Jesus Christ, have in common with those who incur judgment upon themselves these things mentioned by Jude.  Their gods and goddesses seemingly provide a way of defying God without consequences and embolden them to revile anything that is of God.  It does not take long to find out how they feel about anyone or anything, including God's Word.  God is constantly put in the wrong and is reviled should the things of God be mentioned if they are on conflict with that which they prefer such as lust.  The phallus becomes their banner and the thing by which happiness is judged.  The phallus is used as a symbol of their mockery and the derision in which the Living God is held, pointing out how it stands in the eyes of people and God as a symbol of mockery and derision of those who call upon the Name of the LORD.

The Face of Evil

The face of evil is so benign, everyday and common.  Unmasking the evil behind the face is a task that is more often than not a futile enterprise because those who do not know God or have known Him and judged Him see which image they wish, the mask or its real face

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt (1906–75), German-born U.S. political philosopher. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Epilogue (1963).4

The new Bishop of New Hampshire of the Episcopal Church looks benign and is quite convivial.  His mission is to serve the gay agenda and make sure that the laws of God are transgressed, the ordinances are changed, and the everlasting covenant is forsaken. 

Attempts to answer for our God meet with attacks on Him outright and derision of us on the part of those outside the gathering of those who are God's people.  A mockery is made of the invitation made by the LORD Jesus to have eternal life in cloying and bitter anger.  An immediate assault to make sure all who look on see God and His Word in a bad light is joined in the battle.  The Word of God is felt as a poison and death by those who are captive of the gods and goddesses who are in the vanguard of the highest fallen one called Lucifer and called Apostate Snake by Jesus, known as Satan.  The Bishop of New Hampshire intends good as good is seen in his eyes, regarding the Bible as of little consequence in matters of morals and doctrine.  The doctrine of devils and mankind are upheld as something superior to the Bible, relegating the Bible to the status of just another book in the eyes of the Bishop.  The Bishop has his own thoughts about how he might lead those in the gay community into the light that he sees, no doubt hoping for a better day for them.  Yet, the admonition to "go and sin no more" has fallen on deaf ears of the new Bishop.  Lust has been elevated to the status of accepted canon by the Bishop of New Hampshire, replacing the Word of God.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.5

The Bishop of New Hampshire has accomplished something of merit for the Adversary that is rather remarkable.  In an age where communication is instant and images fly from continent to continent in minutes by satellite the outcry among those who are of God is dampened, the Word of God made of no effect, and those who serve God in an official capacity ineffectual against apostasy.  Those who have chosen apostasy have a trophy, a triumph of will, and a reason to believe they are beyond the ordinances of the Living God.  The Anglican communion has little choice but to sever ties with the apostate and primates across the globe have said so.  

Yet, there is doubt and confusion providing a much needed respite for Evil.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentinian author. Avatars Of The Tortoise (1939; repr. in Other Inquisitions, 1960; tr. 1964).6

The piety of the Bishop seems so smooth and calming to some; enormous, menacing and grotesque to others.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 33 (1929; rev. 1970).7

The Bishop is robed in the garb of the pious, cloistered in halls where many serving God have dwelt in times past, had their being and movement, and flourished.  The evil that he represents does not exist to him.  The fact that he committed adultery with a man, left his wife and children and has been living in a state of defiance of the Living God escapes his notice.  He did things so well, his betrayal presented to an understanding wife in a way that was gentle and soft, his abandonment of her and his children done in measured degrees as he plunged in denial of that which he knew to be true, and turning his back on God in a friendly way for the sake of the eyes of those around him all done so well.  No words have reached his ears that have brought him from denial of the import of his actions performed over more than a decade in the full light of day.  Rather, evil counselors have applauded his actions in a roar of approval with it all being cast in a bold and positive light.

The path chosen by those who take lust as normative is hardly noticed by many.  Things go on as they have as evil becomes normative.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), French diplomat, philosopher. Considerations on France, ch. 3 (1796; repr. in The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. by Jack Lively, 1965).8

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English author. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks (1951, p. 223).9

Soon the Episcopal Church will learn what is meant by the phrase, "evil is like water..." Sooner or later many will come to know what it is like for a hairy leg of the unseen to be felt in bed with us, evil to eat at the table with us and how nothing is left for us.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden (1907–73), Anglo-American poet. Herman Melville, st. 4.10

 

References

1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

2, 3 The Holy Bible, The New American Bible, (Nashville, Tennessee: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) 1997.

5 The Holy Bible, The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.