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PASTOR GENERAL"$ REPORT, NOVEMBER 2, 1981
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BULLETIN was a "scholarly" TWIST on God's Word USING HUMAN REASON to get
around a very plain "THUS SAITH THE LORD!"
It was an effort to use
"scholarship" to ask the subtle question, "Is it really wrong" and to see
how much you can get away with!
II Kings 9:30: Queen Jezebel is pictured in the Bible as perhaps the
most evil of women, especially in the worldly and evil attitude sense. This
passage says that "Jezebel heard of it: and she painted her face, and tired
her head, and looked out at a window." She is portrayed in God's Word as an
evil-intentioned woman.
She "PAINTED HER FACE," yet this "scholarly"
attempt at watering down God's teachings stated "In any case, the question
is again whether her use of make-up is any more wrong--of and by itself-
than her adorning her head." IS that the question? IT IS NOT! God here
shows you an evil-minded woman setting a wrong example. Again I say to you,
it is not a matter of "HOW MUCH CAN WE GET AWAY WITH" or "Can we use human
reason to do as the world does--to LOOK as the world does--rather than what
GOD SAYS?"
This effort to bring make-up back into God's Church ended by saying,
"Make-up has definitely been grossly abused. But...it is the vanity which
is wrong and not necessarily the grooming." The argument here is that
grooming is not vanity. But it is the EXTENT and CHARACTER of the grooming
that can be wrong--and the motivation of it.
My mother and grandmothers did not wear make-up--nor did your great
grandmothers of the same era. How did it get into our mid- and latter-20th
century society? FROM PROSTITUTES!
They argue it was done anciently in the world. But that was not GOD'S
world. Our women have COPIED THE PROSTITUTES!
When I was a young man, NO DECENT WOMAN, EVEN IN THE WORLD, SMOKED.
But prostitutes did. Then cigarette manufacturers used subtle advertising
to induce women to follow the prostitute example--for manufacturers'
profits!
Look, finally, at SIN.
It all started with SATAN, when he was the cherub Lucifer.
Again look at HOW SIN BEGAN--with LUCIFER.
God had created him
perfect, and he was in all his ways, TILL he SINNED. HOW? His heart was
lifted up IN VANITY because of his BEAUTY (Ezek. 28:15-17).
Being
BEAUTIFUL or the desire for it led to VANITY. SELF-glorification! His mind
went to his BEAUTY, in VANITY. Of course he would have denied having vanity
just as mortals today.
Satan introduced SIN into humanity through a woman, mother Eve. She
was MISLED, deceived. She didn't deliberately WILL to do wrong--to lead
her husband into the first SIN! She was deceived, as our women have been
today. Go back and read the beginning paragraphs of this article. It is
precisely the way Satan has been getting to our women today.
Women do not use make-up to PLEASE GOD today--for I can tell you ON HIS
AUTHORITY it is NOT pleasing to HIM!