August 5, 2011

Chapter Four

The Corner-Stone of Marriage in the House of Joseph

The United States of America

Holy Scripture reveals Marriage is a natural union between man and woman, but it is also a Divine institution. It was established, not by man, but by the Eternal God at creation and derives its authority from the Divine laws of God, immutable and unchangeable.

Soncino Commentary, Volume 1, Page 488, “Marriage is the cornerstone of all human society. It is a Divine institution, under whose shadow alone there can be reverence for the mystery, dignity, and sacredness of life.” [Ephesians 5:22-33].

The Removal of the Corner Stone by Israel

When any nation removes its cornerstone of marriage so goes the family and the nation! It disintegrates – self-destructs!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “The cornerstone (or foundation stone) concept is derived from the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure. . . .

“A cornerstone (Greek: Άκρογωνιεîς, Latin: Primarii Lapidis) will sometimes be referred to as a "foundation-stone", and is symbolic of Christ, whom the Apostle Paul referred to as the "head of the corner" and is the "Chief Cornerstone of the Church" (Ephesians 2:20).”

The following statistics reveal the alarming increase of the removal of the cornerstone or foundation stone of marriage between man and woman along with others who choose to live together without the blessing and stability of marriage. As the result these immoral practices are destroying this nation and other nations of Israel.

PURE HOPE Internet -- Cohabitation/Premarital Sex

Selected quotes from this article by Janice Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute:

"Census estimates of the number of couples “living together” without marriage in the United States indicates an increase of nearly 1000 percent since 1980, and far too many of those households include children. The trend toward cohabitation instead of marriage is producing a cultural transformation that has profound ramifications both for people and public policies."

"If current conditions continue, an appalling 40 percent of all children will spend some time in their childhood living in the household of a cohabiting couple. Among children born to a single (i.e., never-married) mother, the proportion likely to see a parent move in with an unmarried partner is 76 percent; in contrast, for children born to married parents, the proportion is 20 percent."

"One study put it very bluntly: “[T]he practice of establishing households among unmarried couples does not serve the best interests of adults, children, society or governments.” Indeed, couples living together without marriage establish an unstable home, put their children at risk, encourage domestic violence and poverty, and produce a weakened society."

Same-Sex Relationships

The Willams Institute Website:


“There are an estimated 8.8 million gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) persons in the U.S.


“The number of same-sex couples in the U.S. grew by more than 30 percent from 2000 to 2005, from nearly 600,000 couples in 2000 to almost 777,000 in 2005. Such an increase is five times the six percent rate of growth in the U. S. population. Most likely as stigma associated with same-sex partnering and homosexuality in general decreases, more same-sex couples are willing to identify themselves as such on government surveys like the ACS.”


The Legalization of Same-Sex Marriages

At the time of this writing, laws have already been passed in the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Iowa, New York, Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire, permitting same sex couples to marry one another.

The California Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, upheld the state’s voter-approved constitutional ban on gay marriage, but ruled that some 18,000 same-sex couples who wed before Proposition 8 took effect would still be married under state law.

It is now on hold due to an election when a slim majority of voters refused to accept it. This has been appealed.

Unless an amendment to the constitution is passed by the Congress of the United States defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, and then upheld by the Supreme Court, in short time these same sex marriages that are already approved by a few states will be followed by virtually all of the other states as well.

Another very possible area to consider: It is not beyond the realm of possibility a law will be passed by the Congress of the United States forcing all the states to accept same-sex marriages. Time will tell.

In 2004 the judicial system was tested by same-sex marriages taking place in San Francisco, California, and shortly thereafter in Portland, Oregon, in defiance of the law that prohibits such marriages.

Instead of upholding the law and ruling against these marriages taking place, the Judicial System remained quiet and would not uphold the laws on their books until after many hundreds of such marriages had taken place! It would appear they played a wait and see game before speaking out for fear of making the wrong move and thereby causing the public to speak out against them.

In that interim period of time, many people continued flying in from other states to be joined together in unholy wedlock.

Though President George Bush of the United States spoke out against it, as did Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of the state of California who ordered the attorney general to act against it, their voices carried no real weight in the Judicial and Political areas!

They were not heard, for there is no heart in those who could make the difference to do so for fear of being isolated and not accepted by society. The same applies to those who are more conservative and are in political, judiciary, and religious offices. They also are afraid to speak out strongly for fear of not being elected and/or not accepted by society or by their Congregations.

This is a mockery of the laws of marriage that were ordained in the Book of Genesis by God that began with the very first marriage between Adam and Eve.

Then God said, “Let US make man in our image, according to our likeness . . . so God created man[kind] in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them. Then God blessed them [marriage], and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply (families); fill the earth and subdue it . . .” (Genesis 1:26-28).

The Binding Force of Marriage Between Man and Woman

And He (Jesus Christ) answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who CREATED them at the beginning made them male and female,’ “and said, ‘For this reason a man (male) shall leave his father and his mother and be JOINED to his wife (woman), and the TWO shall become ONE flesh’? “So then they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has JOINED together let no man separate” (Matthew 19:3-9).

Here Jesus Christ made known in this and other Scriptures that marriage is clearly shown to be between a man and a woman in New Testament teachings as well.

The Downward Slide into the Depths of Depravity

This country continues its downward slide toward the lowest depths of depravity as fully and completely as did Sodom and Gomorrah of old.

The time in which we now live is well described by the prophet Isaiah:

“. . . justice is turned back and righteousness stands afar off for TRUTH is fallen in the street . . . so TRUTH FAILS and he who departs from evil [and stands up against it] makes himself A PREY” (Isaiah 59:14-15).


Has Another CURSE Fallen on California?

There has been speculation whether or not God in heaven brought an almost immediate CURSE on the state of California after the State Supreme Court of California legalized same sex marriages on June 16, 2008.

Consider the following facts and judge for yourself:

In an article, entitled, Blazes set state record, on page A3 of – The Record (Stockton, California Newspaper), dated, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, states the following: “. . . officials said Monday that the blazes have set the record for fire burned in a single ‘fire event.’ Nearly 840,000 acres – or 1,312 square miles – have been scorched since lightning storms on June 21 set off more than 1,700 fires. “That has definitely surpassed any of our large fire events,” said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.”

The California State Supreme Court legalized same sex marriages on June 16, 2008. The lightning storms set off more than 1,700 fires on June 21, 2008. Is this just coincidence?

A woman having to flee from her home for the second time in two weeks, said, “You almost feel like somebody is out to get you.”

An article from the same newspaper, the same date, makes known another possible problem from the fallout of those fires with the following byline: “California’s already devastating wildfires also increasing risk of West Nile”

As of July 25, 2008, the same newspaper made known 158 homes had been burned to the ground by those fires.

Not only the State of California has been receiving disasters of one kind or another but they are occurring in many states in this country as well breaking records of the past just as prophesied by God through His prophets (Ezekiel 7; Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 28).

Political Correctness

To take the sting out of the Biblical terminology of ‘SODOMY’, the word has been changed to ‘gay’! Gay is a word that has been misappropriated from its real meaning of being happy to those involved in sodomy as defined by the Bible.

And to be accepted by society, one has to learn and use, in all areas of life ‘politically correct’ words that make such people acceptable. Not to accept and use the changed wordings – “. . . makes himself a prey!”(Isaiah 59:15).

In some areas one can now be subject for libel and sued in the court system for harassment and subject to heavy penalties and possible jail time for using the Biblical terminology to describe such people.

Shocking Rulings in Canada Regarding Alleged "Hate Crimes"

WorldNetDaily reported on June 9, 2008: "A Canadian human rights tribunal ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, according to a new report.

"In a decision dated May 30 in the penalty phase of the quasi-judicial proceedings run by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson was banned from expressing his biblical perspective of homosexuality and ordered to pay $5,000 for 'damages for pain and suffering' as well as apologize to the activist who complained of being hurt... Boisson wrote a letter to the editor of his local Red Deer, Alberta, newspaper in 2002 denouncing the advance of homosexual activism as 'wicked' and stating: 'Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights.'..."

In Sweden (the Tribe of Naphtali) one can be charged with a hate crime to speak against homosexuals. As a nation it has legalized same-sex marriages.

In Sweden, church is for 'unbelievers'

By Gary G. Yerkey, Contributor / July 29, 2011

• A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.

Nearly three-quarters of Sweden’s population of 9.4 million continue to belong to what was long the official state church of this Nordic nation, according to a recent survey. Yet only 15 percent of the members say they believe in Jesus, and an equal percentage do not even believe that God exists.

The survey – conducted over the past year by the Church of Sweden – found, moreover, that only about 400,000 of the roughly 6.6 million church members attend church services at least once a month.

Local clergymen such as Sven Björkborg, who serves several rural parishes southwest of Stockholm, says he is not surprised by the findings of the survey, citing the gradual secularization of Swedish society over the years. Members of the church, he adds, are not required to be believers.

Pastor Björkborg argues that Swedes today support the church because it does good work and upholds important national values and traditions, providing assistance to the poor, the elderly, and others.

It is undeniable, however, that membership in the church, which ceased to be the country’s official state church in 2000, continues to decline. It has fallen from 95.2 percent of the population 40 years ago, for example, to 70.2 percent today.”





Hate Speech and Laws

Laws are already in place in most of the Tribes of Israel that prohibit negative speech in these areas. Soon no true minister of the living God will be able to speak against sodomy as a sin, as defined by God, or face prison and heavy fines by so doing.

This Church does NOT hate the people who are involved in these areas of sin. On the contrary, we love the people but hate what they do. Without realizing it they are bringing unhappiness on themselves and others and leading to the destruction of the family as ordained by God and also the demise of the nation.

Because of these sins, the living and loving God in heaven above charges His ministers to cry out against sin to try and turn His people around to spare them from His punishment (Isaiah 58:1).


What are these hate laws:


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.[1][2]

In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group. The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,[3] or other characteristic.[4] In some countries, a victim of hate speech may seek redress under civil law, criminal law, or both. A website that uses hate speech is called a hate site. Most of these sites contain Internet forums and news briefs that emphasize a particular viewpoint.”

Congress, Society, Religion

Such people are not only in the leading roles in Congress and high levels of society, but can also be found in leading roles in the Churches having been voted in by the majority of the parishioners.

This very thing was recently done when a man, who is an acknowledged homosexual, was voted in by its elders to be their bishop in one of the largest churches in America.

The growth in numbers of the homosexuals and lesbians is phenomenal! In some cities in this country, they hold massive parades and openly display their defiance to the public. 

This year (2011) they are putting the branch to their nose (an obscene act, Ezekiel 8:17) by having a parade in Tucson, Arizona on a very special Holy Day in God’s Master Plan, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, also the weekly Sabbath of God).

Due to their very large and growing numbers, they now have such powerful political clout that those seeking the office of the President, as well as other political offices, actively and openly seek their votes to be elected.

The public at large is being overwhelmed and swallowed up! As the result, a state of great complacency exists in society. This has led to accepted tolerance; as the result one can hear no real outcries against any of these immoral issues.

It is utterly tragic to find there are no strong voices of opposition from religion, newspapers, or other sources of real influence. Those who do are in the minority and are disdained and publicly ignored.

Evangelist Billy Graham

In June of 2005, the most renowned and respected evangelist in America, known over the whole world by multiple millions of people, in perhaps his final sermon before many thousands of people in New York, was asked by a reporter if he was going to speak about the social problems. He replied, “I do not give advice. I am not going to touch on those hot-button issues!” And he didn’t.

It is no wonder God permitted the destruction of property and lives on September 11, 2001!

And unless there is repentance there will very probably be more like tragedies to come – similar to what God brought about toward the close of King Solomon’s reign. Again, they are intended as corrective measures, for God takes no pleasure in the death of anyone as the following Scripture makes known:

“Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourself a NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. For WHY should you die, O house of Israel? For I have NO PLEASURE in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore TURN AND LIVE!” (Ezekiel 18:31-32)

The United Kingdom

The same sins are found in the United Kingdom. If anything, it would appear they are in the leading role of what will soon be fully found in the law-making bodies of the United States.

Consider the following sorrowful and tragic quotes from one of England’s leading newspapers regarding their slide into oblivion of the marriage state due to the very large and powerful numbers of the homosexual and lesbian population. 

The speech by the Queen at the opening of Parliament in the year 2003 made some blush in shame that she would say the things she did. Perhaps it is only tacit agreement, but with her high office she encouraged the people to accept the way of the homosexual and lesbian way of life.

Consider the following quotes regarding the new thinking and agreement with it:

Daily Mail, November 26, 2003:

“The word ‘marriage’ is to be purged - in the cause for equality for homosexuals. References to it will be removed from Government records and documents. The institution of marriage will effectively be swept aside from almost every role of the state - including benefits, taxation and immigration law. It could even be wiped from future state records, statistics and censuses. The ban will be brought in with the ‘gay marriage’ laws to be announced in the Queen’s Speech today.

“Instead of asking for ‘marital status’ - official forms will refer to ‘civil status’ to include both married couples and gays. The Department of Trade and Industry, which has devised the laws, said marriage would be dropped at every opportunity from state documents.”

It is not without cause that God cries out A DESTRUCTIVE WARNING to Israel, and actually refers to Israel as Sodom because of such open and accepted heinous sins (Isaiah 1:9-10). It is heart-breaking to realize God’s chosen people are headed for a very similar type of destruction as befell ancient Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1:9-10).

In comparison only a few will be delivered from it, as was with Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:12-29). 

Satan Dancing with Glee

Satan the devil is dancing with glee upon seeing his success in leading Israel and the world against God by rejecting His commandments and His laws! He well knows God will deal with Israel just as He did with the pre-Flood world of Noah, for the same problems exist today as they did at that time! People are either accepting or choosing involvement with the almost total degradation and evil of Israel and the world!

An example of the gleefulness of Satan is that of Adolph Hitler who danced in the streets of Paris, France, after conquering it. It was reported that Hitler said at that time, “I have fallen from heaven!” This was Satan speaking! He was possessing Hitler at the time and it was he who made this gleeful statement!

Scripture reveals it was Satan who was thrown out of heaven, just as Jesus Christ said of that time when it took place: “. . . I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18).

Satan the devil is leading Israel down the primrose path to total destruction; just as he did the approximate two or three billions of people at the time of Noah’s Flood, when all were drowned with the lone exception of Noah and his immediate family, a total of eight people!

The people of God need to grasp why GOD HAS A CURSE ON ISRAEL TODAY AND WHY HE IS GOING TO DEAL WITH OUR SINS! And He is going to do it in the only manner that will bring His people back to Him! Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 28.

In order to illustrate the reality of this evil, it is necessary to go into some detail about the magnitude of the wickedness and evil that was so pervasive in the 10 tribes of Israel at the time God sent Elijah to them. In so doing one should be able to see the comparison and then to realize it is equally as bad in all the 12 tribes today! (This will be touched on later in this writing.)

The Continued Wickedness of the Rulers of Israel

We will now take a real look at the widespread and terrible evil that was everyday life in the 10 tribes of Israel under King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.

It is not hard to see the parallel of these two people when we consider what we learned through the media about the president and his wife during the eight years of their presidential administration from1991-2001.

To aid us with the parallels, think about the following quotations with references to I kings 16, and 17, and consider the presidents and lawmakers of our time who have allowed the wickedness and evil to pervade our society.

Elected leaders not only allow these evils to worsen through their passages of laws to legalize sodomy but also to teach it as a normal and acceptable way of life in society; it is also to be taught in the schools to the little children!

There are the many other forms of evil as well; and Christ makes known it will only get worse before He intervenes (Matthew 24:14).

In the following quotes you will read of the wickedness and cruelty in the name of religion as well as other heinous sins in ancient Israel.

The Very Worst in Human Behavior and Cruelty

Halley’s Handbook, pages 197-197 “Omri (father of Ahab), king of Israel reigned 12 years. ‘Wicked above all who had been before him’ . . . Ahab, king of Israel reigned 22 years. Wickedest of all the kings of Israel. He married Jezebel, a Sidonian princess, an imperious, unscrupulous, vindictive, determined, devilish woman, and a demon incarnate. A devotee of Baal worship, she built a temple for Baal in Samaria, maintained 850 prophets of Baal and Ashtoreth, slew the prophets of JHVH, and abolished JHVH worship (I Kings 18:13,17). She gave her name to later prophetesses who sought to fasten voluptuous practices of idol worship on the Church (Revelation 2:20) . . . God sent Elijah to eradicate Baalism, a vile and cruel religion . . . The Oriental Institute, excavating at Megiddo . . . which is near Samaria, found, in the stratum of Ahab’s time, the ruins of a temple of Ashtoreth, goddess wife of Baal. Just a few steps from the temple was a cemetery [think about all the cemeteries located next to Churches in rural areas], where there were many jars found, CONTAINING REMAINS OF INFANTS WHO HAD BEEN SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE . . . Prophets of Baal and Ashtoreth were OFFICIAL MURDERERS OF LITTLE CHILDREN. This is a sidelight on Elijah’s encounter of the prophets of Baal (18:40), and helps us understand why Jehu was so ruthless in his extermination of Baalism (I Kings 9.)” 

In addition, note the following quotations:

Unger’s Bible Handbook, pages 220-223 “. . . Asherah . . . was the patroness of sex and war. Snake worship, both male and female prostitution, child murder and sacrifice, and every conceivable vice were associated with Canaanite religion. Priests and prophets of Baal were official murderers of little children and hence deserved death themselves (18:40) . . . Baal, the Phoenician storm god, was held by Ahab, Jezebel and his other devotees to control the rain. Elijah (‘my God is the LORD’) abruptly announced to Ahab that JHVH would be proved to be the one who does so . . . The terrible 3 and ½ year drought was about to end. Who withheld and would send the rain? ‘Baal of the heavens’ or of the LORD? . . . Elijah met Ahab and called for the contest on Carmel, I Kings 18:17-19 . . . The struggle proved JHVH’s power. . . .”

Notice what God led other prophets to write about, then, and now:

"When Ephraim spoke there was trembling (Jewish Translation). He exalted himself in Israel; but when he became guilty through BAAL, he died. Now they sin more and more, and have made for themselves molded images, idols of their silver according to their skill; all of it is the work of craftsman. They say of those WHO OFFER HUMAN SACRIFICE WORSHIP WITH KISSES (margin). . . .' Hosea 13:1-2) 

The Book of Hosea was written primarily to Ephraim (The United Kingdom), but since God made him the first-born over Manasseh the context in some of the writings about Ephraim also apples to his older brother Manasseh (The United States of America). The two Tribes became the House of Joseph by the laying on of hands by Jacob – who God renamed Israel – and placed his name Israel upon his two grandsons (Genesis 48).

The Kingdom of Judah also Affected

Baalism was so rampant and widespread in Israel that even Judah was involved in it -- sacrificing their babies to horrible, burning deaths! God warned them sternly of the coming judgment He would bring on them for their rejection of Him by accepting a heathen religion that sacrificed the lives of their babies to its idols:

Thus says the LORD: “. . . go out to the Valley of Hinnom . . . and proclaim there the words I will tell you . . .”

‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Behold I will bring such a catastrophe on this place that whoever hears of it his ears will tingle. Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods . . . and have FILLED this place with THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENTS. They have also built the high places of BAAL, TO BURN THEIR SONS WITH FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS TO BAAL . . . therefore the days are coming', says the LORD, 'that this place shall no more be called Tophet of the valley of the Son of Hinnom, BUT THE VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER'" (Jeremiah 19:3-6; 7:30-34).

In this coming time, God makes known through another prophet that He will punish both Israel and Judah for this depraved, idolatrous worship that required the shedding of the life-blood of the innocent babies:

". . . I will punish her for the (feast days, RSV) days of the BAALS . . . I will TAKE FROM HER THE NAMES OF THE BAALS, AND THEY SHALL BE REMEMBERED BY THEIR NAME NO MORE" (Hosea 2:13, 17).

No more will Israel observe the Day of the Sun, Sunday, in place of God’s Holy Sabbath Day, nor Christmas, Easter, or any of the other days of pagan origin (Hosea 2:10-11, 13, 17; Ezekiel 16:36-43, Amos 5:21; Jeremiah 10:1-5). 

Judah retained the recognition and observance of the true Sabbath and Holy Days, but ironically they were also involved in the pagan worship of the Baals and that of Astarte that goes back to Nimrod and Semiramis at the tower of Babel.

To illustrate, please read the indictment of God against Judah regarding the hot cross buns the women were making in honor of Astarte, a pagan goddess:

“Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, TO MAKE CAKES FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger . . . therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be POURED OUT on this place – on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will BURN and NOT be quenched” (Jeremiah 7:17-20; 44:15-29).              

The hot-cross buns, or cakes, are still made available at Easter time by many bakeries in the nations of Israel and in the European nations.

Sadly there is little time left for repentance and a turn-around before God brings nuclear warfare upon His people Israel for these terrible sins by the soon-coming revival of the Holy Roman Empire to be headed by the Beast and False Prophet (Revelation 13, 17).


God is very angry with His chosen people (Ezekiel 6:10-14).

It is much closer than many think or want to believe. And when it comes mankind along with many in the Church of God will be caught asleep and perish.

Jesus Christ has made known His people are to be WATCHING (meaning world news in view of end-time prophecy) and PRAYING ALWAYS lest we find ourselves entrapped by the system and the time and way of escape will no longer be there for His people (Luke 21:35-36).

These are terrible times in which we live and will worsen before the end of this age (Matthew 24:12).

To be continued—


Your servant and friend,

Don Billingsley


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