Why did the LGBTQ community use the rainbow as a symbol, and what does the rainbow represent? Now
the rise of the homosexual movement in the United States or the rise of what I'm going
to call Alphabet Community. People who identify themselves as homosexual, lesbian, or transgender,
queer and so forth and on, really started on June 28, 1969. There has been homosexuals and
practicing lesbians in the United States, but Stonewall riots really created that rise. There
was a violent confrontation between the police and the gay activists outside of the Stonewall
Inn. A gay bar in Greenwich Village section of the New York City. Sometime later there was an
invention of the Gay Pride rainbow flag. These flags were invented mainly for San Francisco
Gay Freedom Day Parade, but originally they were designed by Gilbert Baker. They had eight stripes
but due to some printing issues they reduced it to six stripes. Now the six stripes are red for life,
orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for serenity and violet for spirit.
Before that they had two more stripes, and that was hot pink for sex, and turquoise for magic and
for art. The legalization of homosexuality took place on June 26th, year 2003, during a court
ruling between Lawrence and State of Texas. And the court ruled that states cannot criminalize
private activity between same-sex adults, striking down sodomy laws national wide. So in the United
States we had sodomy laws. Meaning you could not publicly be with a same-sex and act like a couple,
and the court on June 26, 2003, overturned those laws. The fourth mile mark that gave rise to the
Alphabet Community is the overturning of the Defense of Marriage. That happened surprisingly
on June 26, 2013. The Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which
is known as DOMA, is unconstitutional, defining marriage as between one man and one woman. And
it granted recognition to the same-sex marriages for the first time, and that happened on 2013.
The fifth milestone in the rise of the homosexual movement in the United States came on June 26th,
during the administration of President Barack Obama. It was overturning of marriage. The courts
ruled that all states must license and recognize same-sex marriages, legalizing same-sex marriage
across the United States. That's when Barack Obama made his famous statement that love wins. Silicon
Valley and all of these stores started to you know show the gay flags all around, in supports for
rights for homosexual community. These were five mile marks that really gave rise to the movement
that we see today. This movement already has a full month called Pride Month, month of June. This
movement has a full month dedicated to it, called the Pride Month. Which you kind of see now why,
because all of these events that gave rise to the homosexual movement happened on June. Therefore
this month of June is dedicated to Pride, every single year. You know in the United States we have
one day for Christmas, one day for New Year's. We have one day for America's independence,
and then we have a full month dedicated to Pride. In our culture we have seen a huge
shift with males participating in female sports, drag shows for children, cancel culture. Meaning
if you don't agree with what is happening to these people, you are immediately canceled. Woke
has become the new counterfeit religion that is counterfeit of being born again, being awakened
to Christ. But we also see a resistance or if I would say Christians rising up and saying,
"We don't want to have this pushed on us." Now I believe that God loves all people. He loves
gay people. He loves transgender people. He loves queer people. He loves lesbians. He loves sinners.
He loves good, bad and the ugly. He loves every single person, young and old, and this is not a
video directed against people. This video is directed against what the Bible calls sin,
and what the Bible calls demonic teachings and lies, and that's what I want to deal with. Another
thing that I want to highlight in this video is I do believe that there is a gay agenda at play in
our culture. Not only there is this thing where we love people, but there is an agenda behind
that. God wants to save people. 100%. God loves people and so should we. But loving
people and accepting what they do as correct, and us giving up our Biblical understanding of truth,
is not the same as loving people. I believe the gay agenda really has five steps. One is to come
out of the closet. The second one is to demand for rights. The third one is to demand that everybody
recognizes those rights. The fourth one is to take other people's rights. The fifth one is
anybody who doesn't agree with you, to put them in the closet. Meaning to cancel them, which is
what's happening today in our culture. Now what does the Bible say about the rainbow? We see that
in Revelation 4:3 that He who sat there was like a Jasper and sardius stone in appearance; and there
was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Now we see that God sits on the
throne and around His throne is a rainbow. So God likes rainbows. Rainbow is not bad. God created
that. It's around His throne, and we see the first mention of the rainbow in the Scriptures actually
is in Genesis 9:16. It has nothing to do with tolerance. It has nothing to do with free love,
and it has nothing to do with what the homosexual community stands for. Genesis 9:16, it says:
And then the next verse says, verse 17.
So we see that physically or scientifically, in simple terms a rainbow is simply the sun
shining through raindrops. Now we see that there was no rain prior to the flood. The earth was
protected by some kind of a layer of water, which protected the people on the earth from
the negative consequences of the rays of the sun. Which probably explains why people were
able to live for a very long time. But after the flood because of men's sin against God,
and I have other videos that deal with Genesis chapter 6, the Nephilim and all of this stuff.
But we see that there was a sin that was being done, violence that was being done on this earth,
and God punishes sin and the sinners who have that sin. But God always shows mercy, so He saves this
guy named Noah and his family. He saves them in the ark, and after Noah comes out of the ark,
the flood subsides, the water you know gets in its place and all of it becomes normal. Then
God shows the rainbow because it probably starts raining. So this probably protective layer around
the earth was already gone because of the flood, and then God says, now this will be a sign between
Me and the humans. So I want you to notice that the rainbow is the sign of God's covenant with
Noah following the flood. What you will find interesting is the Hebrew word for "rainbow"
in this text, is actually the word that we have for a bow, war bow. It's like God was saying,
My anger has ceased. Each time we see a rainbow, it's pointed downward. Meaning it's kind of like
a warrior that lowers his bow to declare peace. So a holy God punishes sin because He is just.
For God not to punish sin would not be loving, any more than when a judge lets murderers, rapists and
really bad people go free. You wouldn't call that judge good. You will call that judge corrupt. He
wouldn't be loving. The only time you want a corrupt judge is if you're the criminal,
but all of us want just judges. So God is a just God and sin demands to be punished. So God is not
being mean by punishing sin, He's being God, He's being good, He's being just. Now, God
also provides a way for sinners to have a chance to repent and to be saved. He did that for Noah;
He does it for us, and when we accept the gift of His forgiveness and mercy, through repentance,
through our faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, who took all the sin upon Himself. What God does is
what God did with Noah, He gives us the rainbow. In other words, God's justice and God's anger is
satisfied. The price has already been paid and God is extending mercy to us. The rainbow is kind of
like the bow that's pointed downward, meaning we are at peace, we are reconciled with God. So God
sends the rainbow as an act of mercy. But I want you to notice what we have turned the rainbow
into, as an act of provocation. We have turned God's mercy into a weapon of justice against God,
because think about it. We are on the earth, God is in heaven. Now heaven is not necessarily just
a place, we know it's a different realm. But from the earth, when we look to God,
that rainbow. Anytime we carry that flag of rainbow and we connect it to you know all
sexual behaviors that are not consistent with the Scriptures, what we're telling God is we're
actually shooting a bow against God. The very rainbow of mercy He extended to us, we turned
it into an act of provocation. We turn it into an a weapon. A rainbow that's pointed at Him, a bow
that's pointed at Him. That we're judging Him, we're saying, "Our ways is better, love is love,
we're going to do what we want." Which brings me to the part about pride. See you must understand,
the flag, the rainbow flag. In the beginning the rainbow meant God's mercy. The bow was pointed
downwards, meaning God's like, "We have peace." We now take that and we turn that against God,
and we really provoke God to anger with our sin. And the worst part about it, we're proud of it.
This would be different if we're struggling with sin and we're calling on God to help us. But we're
not struggling because June is not called the month of struggle. It's called the month of Pride,
and what does God hate more than any sin? It's pride. So we turn the bow,
the rainbow and really are shooting at God, and saying, "My way is better than Yours, we know
better. Who do you think You are that You will tell us what to do with our sexuality? My body,
my choice." And we take Scripture, twist it to fit our sexual sins, not just our sexual
sins but every sin because we don't want to repent. We want God who is tolerant of our sin,
not a God who tells us to repent of our sin. So that's why the rainbow has to go with pride
because the rainbow is what it means today in our culture is us provoking holy God and being proud
of it. Now please understand that in the Bible, "Pride," the Bible says, "goes before destruction
and a haughty spirit before the fall." Proverbs 16:18. James 4 6, it says, "God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble." Saint Augustine of Hippos said, "It was pride that turned angels
into devils; it is humility that turns men into angels." Pride is not something to be celebrated.
It's a vice to be repented of. It's not a virtue. It's something we shouldn't celebrate but we
celebrate being immoral. We celebrate adultery. We celebrate defiance to God, rebellion against God.
We celebrate a rebellion against His order and we call that love, and if anybody disagrees with us,
with our culture, we shut them up. We call them transphobic, homophobic. We call them with every
kind of name to shame them, why? Because pride needs to be protected. We need to protect that
pride, and this pride is what's going to condemn us into eternal separation from God. This pride,
I believe is the root of why our culture today is like that. This pride turned sex into a god that
we worship, instead of a gift that we enjoyed. And this pride is bringing more headache,
it's bringing more suffering already. Not something that will happen only in eternity.
It's already bringing that. I want to encourage you, if you're watching this video and you are a
Christian. I want to encourage you to examine your heart so that you receive God's mercy,
and you believe in God's holiness, and receive the gift of God's salvation, and be grateful for that.
Also examine your heart that you don't allow pride in your life. If you're watching this video and
you are a proud gay person or a lesbian person, or you are a proud member of the Alphabet Community.
I want to speak to you just for a moment that God loves you. But God created this earth,
and He created you in His image and likeness. You have the free decision to disobey God,
to provoke Him and to hate Him. But you are not free from the consequences of your decisions.
The Bible makes it very clear, "For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is everlasting
life." You will have to give an account for your life. Maybe you joined the homosexual community
because you've seen abuse and legalism. Maybe you've been mistreated. But please understand,
your hope is not in rebelling against God, your hope is in surrendering to God. He let His Son
die on a cross for you, to pay for your sin. He didn't have to do that. It's because He loves you,
and He wants to forgive you. He finds no pleasure in punishing you. He's not an angry God who finds
joy in people's suffering. He's a loving God, who is holy, and whose wrath is just, because He is a
just God. But He wants to forgive you. He finds pleasure in forgiving you. But you must repent
and you can't repent until you break your pride, and your pride can keep you away from God. And
in fact, if you are proud of being homosexual, being lesbian, you're actually playing right
into the enemy's hands. The devil became the devil, the evil that we see today is because
of the devil. You know how he became the devil? Because of the very thing that we are allowing
and celebrating in our culture. Pride. Repent of pride and then God will give you the freedom,
He will forgive you of your sin, He will help you to overcome homosexual tendencies,
lesbian tendencies. He will help you to deal with gender dysphoria. He will help you to heal,
He will deliver you. But most importantly He will fill you with the Holy Spirit, He will give you
eternal life. He will help you to enjoy the gift of sexuality which actually He created. He will
help you to serve Him with the body that you have, which is His actually because He made you and he
will be your Lord and your Savior. So I want to encourage you today to place your faith in Jesus
Christ, and repent of your sin. If you're watching me right now and you are a Christian, but you are
battling with tendencies that are contrary to the natural desires, or maybe you're battling with
desires that are sinful in the area of sexuality. Please understand that because of discipleship,
because of surrendering our will, because of inner healing when we receive forgiveness,
we forgive other people. We can overcome our biology because of our theology. I have a video
where I talk about how to overcome homosexuality, and that video applies not only to homosexuality
but also to people that are battling with other sexual issues. There's a difference between being
a homosexual, where it's your identity and being somebody who is a Christian but who battles with
certain tendencies, who is struggling, who is being tempted. Those are two different things.
As a Christian you cannot be gay Christian because your identity is not in your sexuality. It's in
Jesus. We are Christ like. We are in Him, not in our sexuality and because we are in Him,
that's who our identity is. We can overcome the rest of the struggles, the flesh, demons,
curses and all of these things. Maybe you're battling with gender dysphoria, you're confused.
But as a Christian, we start from the point of victory, we start from the point of knowing our
identity in Jesus and out of that we deal with the rest of the issues. Like I battled with
insecurities for a very long time, but I battled with those insecurities. Those insecurities didn't
define me because as a Christian my identity is secure, not in my appearance, not in my sexuality,
not in my accomplishments but in Jesus. So I just want to encourage you to keep going to Jesus,
and He will help you to overcome those tendencies that you are battling with. But don't let your
issue become your identity. Don't let the culture lie to you and say, "No, you're not supposed to
be ashamed of this." No, the Bible says it's a sin and we should be ashamed of it. I know that
the Alphabet Community has a lot of letters representing different sexual orientations,
but honestly, the Bible only has one word for all of those sexual sins, and that is sin. And
God tells sinners to repent, and He is willing to forgive them and He's willing to deliver them.
He's ready for that. But if we keep playing to the devil's hand and keep feeding ourselves with
pride, and then keep turning a bow against God, provoking God to anger. We will pay for our sins,
and when that time comes for it, it will be to late. But it's not too late right now, to repent,
to place our faith in Christ, and to rely on His Spirit and His Word to help us overcome sins of
the flesh, as well as demonic attacks on our life. Thank you for watching this video. Let
me know in the comments below what did you learn today. And if you have a testimony of
being freed or delivered from homosexuality or lesbianism, or you maybe gave your life to
Christ after you became a transgender and now you came to Jesus, and your life is different.
Share that in the comments below. We would love to hear your testimony. Until next time.