Homeschool News & Views

Issue 91, October 26, 2008

From Homeschool Helpers

In association with Pass It On Ministries

By Dan L. White

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Two notable events were held recently, on different sides of the world, geographically and spiritually.

In the last week of September every year, San Francisco has its Leather Pride Week. That is different than its Gay Pride day, although with the same general purpose. The three largest events in California are the Rose Parade in Pasadena, the Gay Pride day in San Francisco, and the Folsom Street Fair, which ends Leather Pride Week.

This year 400,000 – 400,000! -- sadomachists, homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transexuals and a few gawkers crowded into a 13 block area of San Francisco for the Folsom Street Fair. The San Francisco Chronicle said that the fair was “a public display of all things kinky that covered 13 blocks in the South of Market neighborhood and drew hundreds of thousands of people, many of them not wearing leather in key places. There were naked people selling bondage gear and naked people seeking support for measures on the Nov. 4 ballot. There were naked people with cameras, taking pictures of other naked people.”

Of course, on the streets there were naked people doing with other naked people what naked people tend to do.

It’s almost unbelievable that such a thing could take place in America, yet it does, every year.

So why didn’t the police arrest the naked fair goers for indecent exposure?

The city and county are both contributors and sponsors of the fair. According to the fair’s website, the fair received financial support from both the city and the county.

There were also a few people there passing out Christian literature, and trying to get support for the California proposition outlawing man/man marriage. Those are dedicated people.

When people disobey God’s law as the homosexuals do, that does not go without penalty. We have cited before the recent British study which showed that homosexuals have a greatly reduced lifespan and are generally miserable people, much more depressed and suicidal. The same thing applies to heterosexuals, if they live a promiscuous lifestyle.

The average homosexual has about 20 different partners a year. Prostitutes would obviously have numerous victims, too. A lot of people today live promiscuously, even if they don’t get paid for it. Any individual who breaks God’s commandment against adultery so brazenly will suffer greatly for that. Any nation which is made up of such individuals will suffer greatly for that.

In St. Louis, an HIV infected person told health authorities that he or she may have infected as many as 50 students in one St. Louis high school. The school is not releasing the name of the person and is not saying how the students may have been exposed to the fatal virus.

Of course, one can guess how they were exposed.

The situation is causing some upset at the school. Some students are trying to transfer out of that public school to other public schools. One boy from another school broke up with a girl from the affected school, assumedly because he did not want to catch HIV from her. And a football team from another high school did not want to play the team from the HIV public school.

How does one person possibly infect 50 students in this one public school?

The possibilities are sex, drugs, tattoos and body piercings. Again, how does one individual expose 50 others? 50 is a large number.

Is that typical behavior for that school, where one individual can put the lives of 50 others at risk? How did that person get HIV himself or herself? If a school has one individual like that, how many others are also like that? Apparently those 50 who were exposed practiced the same kind of lifestyle as the person who exposed them. Therefore the question must be asked –

Did each of those 50 expose another 50 each? Or maybe they only exposed 25 each, or just 10?

If that one person exposed 50 others to HIV, then probably most of them caught it. It is absolutely astounding that the public school culture is so degenerate that just one person can spread HIV to maybe 50 others. Has San Francisco moved to St. Louis?

On the other side of the world from San Francisco, the world’s largest Feast of Tabernacles gathering was held in Jerusalem last week. About 8,000 Christians visited Jerusalem for the feast. That is now Israel’s biggest tourist event.

They always hold a parade during the feast and the feast keepers sang songs in Hebrew and in their native home languages. The largest groups were from Brazil, Finland, Germany, Norway and the US. That must have really been something to have heard the same songs being sung in multiple languages. That is kind of reminiscent of Acts 2 and the Pentecost feast there.

There are several disconsonant movements in the world today. There is the homosexual movement contrasted with the Christian homeschool movement. There is the movement of Islam spreading around the world, including into the US, contrasted with the movement of Christians back toward the festivals which the church originally kept, such as the Feast of Tabernacles.

World Net Daily is a wellknown, conservative news web site. Its founder is a Christian of Arab descent, I believe. They have produced and are selling on their site a video about the Bible festivals, titled The Feasts of the Lord. Historically the Bible festivals were regarded as Jewish feasts, but the festivals came from God, not the Jews. There is a big and growing wave now toward learning more about these festivals, which simply means learning more about God and what He is doing.

The Jewish rabbis added their two cents to the festivals, as they did to everything. And that’s about how much their additions are worth. Stick to the Bible and the festivals are beautiful and simple. There are Tabernacles gatherings all over the US each fall, and more popping up every year.

Reading in the Bible about the festivals will quickly show the importance that God puts on them. The biggest events in the Bible occurred at His festivals: the covenant with Abraham at Passover; bringing Israel out of Egypt at Passover; the teaching of the Ten Commandments at Pentecost; the sacrifice of the Messiah at Passover; and the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Israel’s greatest times of revival were during the feasts, such as Solomon’s dedication of the temple at Tabernacles time; Hezekiah’s Passover in the second month; Josiah’s Passover when he found the book of the law; and the Feast of Trumpets and Tabernacles when Ezra read the law to Judah after they returned to Jerusalem.

The festivals are God’s yearly revivals. Many Christian homeschool families take that time to worship God each year. We were just with some last week, in three different festival sites. It’s funny how the festivals have been looked at as a burden. Actually, they are a time of great spiritual refreshing. It is so wonderful to take time out for hours of personal devotions, well prepared sermons, and warm fellowship.

Then after that, we come back to face Halloween.

So two events happened recently, one in San Francisco and one in Jerusalem, Leather Pride Week and the Feast of Tabernacles. They were on opposite sides of the world, geographically and spiritually.