We at The Refiner's Fire are not attempting to bash homosexuals. People cannot help whom they are attracted to. We are simply bringing to the world's attention to what YHWH (Yahweh - The Creator) says via His Word (the Bible); and Scripture says it is "an abomination" and that one cannot engage in homosexual activities and belong to Him at the same time....He does not condone sin of ANY kind!

Because we are a Torah observant ministry, our goal is to challenge especially the Christian pastors who insist "it's okay to be gay" and abuse the tired mantra, "We're born that way."

Really? Would the Creator purposely cause someone to be "born gay" only to then turn around and make their lives miserable by telling them their acts are "an abomination?"

Leviticus 18:22 - You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

YHWH expects us to "be holy because I am holy!" (Seen in passages throughout the Torah, the first five Books of the Bible, which is our only blueprint for moral, holy living.) Torah outlines exactly what YHWH expects of His people and why - and He even sent us His Son, Yeshua (our Savior's given, Hebrew Name) came to be our Final SIN Sacrifice, who came to proclaim the Kingdom of YHWH and show us how to live according to His Father's Rules.

Contrary to popular belief, He did NOT come to bring a "new religion" or release mankind from Torah. He and all His apostles and disciples upheld YHWH's Divine Instructions in Righteousness, and that has never changed!

The Bible tells us there is NO SIN SACRIFICE for continued and deliberate sinning after someone has accepted YHWH/Yeshua:

Hebrews 10:26 For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, or raging fire that will consume the enemies.

Please re-read the above: If you are a born-again believer and you know what God considers "sin" but you continue sinning, anyway, then you do NOT have the Holy Spirit residing within, and you do NOT belong to God! This is not our "interpretation" of the Bible; it is what God said and Yeshua and His Apostles continued to reiterate.

2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him. 20 Indeed, if they have once escaped the pollutions of the world through knowing our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah, and then have again become entangled and defeated by them, their latter condition has become worse than their former. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness than, fully knowing, to turn from the holy command delivered to them.

Matthew 23: (Yeshua said) 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

So, people, let's get BIBLICAL about this kind of nonsense and stop making excuses: One either belongs to God, or not! Let's check out just some of the scriptures that command us to be holy:

Adultery:

Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery."

Sexual immorality:

1 Corinthians 6:9. Or don't you know, that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of Elohim? Make no mistake! Neither sexual sinners, nor idol-worshippers, nor adulterers, nor the corrupt, nor men who lay down with other men, 10. Nor the oppressors, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of Elohim. (Aramaic English New Testament)

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality....

Homosexuality:

Leviticus 18:22 - You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Revelation 22:14 How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the gates into the city! 15 Outside are the homosexuals, those who misuse drugs in connection with the occult, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

(Also, please see The Refiner's Fire's article: Comments for Gay Clergy.)

Drunkenness

(Including drunkenness from drugs or any substance that clouds our consciousness):

Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 3:3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Titus 1:7 Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless-not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.

Lying:

Leviticus 19:11 "'Do not steal from, defraud or lie to each other. 12 Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am ADONAI.

Idolatry:

Exodus 20:4 "Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation. But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.

The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines "idol" as: 1. a representation or symbol of an object of worship; broadly: a false god; 2. a: a likeness of something b: obsolete: PRETENDER, IMPOSTOR; 3. a form or appearance visible but without substance; 4. an object of extreme devotion (a movie idol); 5. a false conception: fallacy.

Many believers insist "we're not supposed to judge" - but that is a misconception because they don't understand what "judging" refers to. One isn't "judging" unlesss they are using their own moral codes as measuring sticks outside of Torah. Torah should be our only Judge because it is the Word of God!

If someone has fallen off the path, we cannot stand idly by and ignore the sinner for fear of being guilty of "judging" them - especially the pastors, the supposed "men of God" who try to tell us sinning is "normal"! We MUST try to guide them back onto the path.

When Yeshua HaMashiyach (whom Christians call Jesus Christ) saw deliberate sinning, He didn't sit back and make excuses; He confronted the sinners - sometimes even engaging in physical action in order to make His statement (see Matthew 21:11-13) - and, He didn't hesitate to call the "men of God" hypocrites whenever He witnessed iniquity (see Matthew 6:2-5, all of Matthew 23, and Psalm 26:4-5 to mention just a few).

One of the main problems of today's lackadaisical churches whose leaders often don't practice what they preach, is that they believe Torah to be null and void. They believe "Jesus nailed it to the cross", without stopping to think exactly WHAT He nailed to the cross. He nailed our past sins to the cross (not future deliberate ones!); He nailed to the cross our certificate of debt for breaking the Law - not His Torah. And He even said so:

Matthew 5:17 Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah - not until everything that must happen has happened. 19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot (words/commands) and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers and P'rushim, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Has everything happened that must happen? Have heaven and earth passed away yet? If not, then why have we decided that God's "forever" commands have somehow been superseded?

The Christian church erroneously teaches that Torah was abolished at the cross, but nothing could be further from the truth! An article at Yashanet called "Not Subject to the Law of God?" explains: Attempting to gain salvation by following the Torah on your own without faith, and inevitably failing at some point, is the "curse of the Law" - not the Torah itself. No, Torah is God's Divine Instructions in Righteousness, without which we would have NO guidlines for moral, holy living.

Yeshua didn't abolish Torah, and Torah isn't a "curse"! Since when are God's teachings a CURSE? He attempted to show us that MAN-MADE traditions and teachings had twisted God's Word. The teachings of the rabbis in "Biblical times" (just as the teachings of many of today's pastors!) had clouded the things God had actually said! This is backed up by the misunderstood teachings of Paul who said:

Colossians 2:14 He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.

What does the above refer to? "The bill of charges" - our past sins! That's what Yeshua abolished - not Torah! God warns us in Proverbs 4:2 - "I give you good instruction: Do not forsake my Torah." (For more about Torah - God's original teaching and instruction, please see Torah Put in Simple Terms.)

Many today insist that since we have God's Word "written on our hearts" (2 Corinthians 3:3 and Romans 1) it automatically makes them "holy". How can something that we've never learned make us holy? Today's church leaders don't teach Torah; they teach that, all that's required of us is to "believe in Jesus" who supposedly gives us carte blanche to do whatever we want, because we're already forgiven!

Many churches even teach that we no longer need to adhere to the Ten Commandments because believers in Jesus "have a higher calling" (see The Refiner's Fire's challenge to Bethel Ministries.) Unfortunately, the "fine print" in the Bible says otherwise! Yeshua said if we were "lukewarm" toward Him He would spit us out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16)! Furthermore, Hebrews 6 makes it perfectly clear that those who deliberately turn toward "the world" are holding our Savior up to public contempt:

Hebrews 6:4 For when people have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become sharers in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), 5 and tasted the goodness of God's Word and the powers of the 'olam haba - 6 and then have fallen away - it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt. 7 For the land that soaks up frequent rains and then brings forth a crop useful to its owners receives a blessing from God' 8 but if it keeps producing thorns and thistles, it fails the test and is close to being cursed (Genesis 3:17-18); in the end, it will be burned.

Make no mistake: God loves us, and He knows as humans we are prone to falling from grace. Yeshua paid the sacrifice for our sins; however, that does not mean we can do whatever we want because God does draw the line on continuous, intentional sinning. He said so:

Leviticus 26:23 If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me; then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins.

Numbers 15:30 "'But an individual who does something wrong intentionally, whether a citizen or a foreigner, is blaspheming ADONAI. That person will be cut off from his people. 31 Because he has had contempt for the word of ADONAI and has disobeyed his command, that person will be cut off completely; his offense will remain with him.'"

Deuteronomy 7:9 From this you can know that ADONAI your God is indeed God, the faithful God, who keeps his covenant and extends grace to those who love him and observe his mitzvot, to a thousand generations. 10 But he repays those who hate him to their face and destroys them. He will not be slow to deal with someone who hates him; he will repay him to his face.

Isaiah 66:24 "As they leave, they will look on the corpses of the people who rebelled against me. For their worm will never die, and their fire will never be quenched; but they will be abhorrent to all humanity.

Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Some final thoughts - let's just lay it on the line:

Sorry to be so graphic, but we must expose some things for what they are according to what Scripture says: Gay men (as well as many heterosexuals) don't just engage in oral sex; they also have anal intercourse - sticking their private parts and fingers into a place whose only purpose is to excrete human waste and toxins. These acts are not only sickening, but those who engage in them run the risk of contracting infection and disease caused by the deadly e-coli bacteria. No matter how one attempts to justify it, whenever someone (heterosexual or homosexual) is having anal intercourse, they are guilty of touching the most unclean, bacteria-infested part of a human body.

Our Creator who gave us His Torah (divine instructions in righteousness) said a person was guilty of sinning when touching "human uncleanness" (which, until Yeshua's death on man's behalf, resulted in the killing of an innocent animal to atone for any heinous sins!)....

Leviticus 5:3 If he touches some human uncleanness, no matter what the source of his uncleanness is, and is unaware of it, then, when he learns of it, he is guilty.

Granted, most people probably couldn't care less about God, let alone bother to obey Him. But that is actually irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because there IS a Judgment Day when all of us (believers and unbelievers alike) WILL be standing before Him to discuss our actions on Earth. The reason we can be sure of this is because hundreds of Bible prophecies have already come to pass (see Accurate Messiah Prophecies), and there are but a few more to go as four of the seven Biblical Feasts have already been fulfilled - with just three more left.

The thing is, in today's carnal world hardly anyone ever thinks about the fact that we have a Creator - YHWH (Yahweh) - who commanded us ALL to "Be holy because I am holy!" (Seen throughout the first five Books of the Bible.)

YHWH has removed His Mighty Hand from this once Godly nation that is now fraught with immorality of all kinds. Not just from this nation, but the entire world, as evidenced by the many signs today.

And those who are doing their best to sell homosexuality to the world as a "normal" thing, are definitely helping to usher in the end times....That is not our opinion, but a biblical fact!

Tamra wrote: "We would not be here if same-sex began in Genesis 1:27, 2:22-23, 1 Timothy 2:13 and Ephesians 5:30: For we are members of his (Yeshua) body and of his flesh and of his bones. Pray for this reawakening spiritual message for everyone's ears/eyes. Walk like Living Torah!"