Why Warn People About Sin?

People who read my blog may well find themselves asking “Why does he write warnings about sin?” I can assure you I don’t do it to make myself look or feel more righteous, because if I do, I’m seeking to justify myself before God and other people, and I know that doesn’t work. I just make myself into a self-righteous hypocrite, and nobody would have any reason to bother reading what I write. There’s a much more important reason why I write about sin. It’s because of Who God is, and what He wants for all of us.

I turn to a passage in the Bible that features God speaking directly to and through a prophet, in this case, Ezekiel. In Chapter 33, verses 1-20 of the book, Ezekiel recounts what God has said to him about speaking His warnings to the people of Israel for their worship of false gods and immoral behavior. In Chapter 18, Ezekiel presents a lengthier discourse from God on sin, repentance, and judgement. But in this passage in Chapter 33, God makes His message to Ezekiel more personal, driving home what the prophet’s responsibility is to the people of Israel in warning them about the consequences of their sin.

The context of this passage is that Ezekiel is serving as a priest to the Jewish exiles in Babylon. He has been giving them warnings of God’s judgement for their idolatry and immorality, which they have not heeded. At this point in time, the word is about to reach the exiles that the city of Jerusalem has fallen to the Babylonian army. The city and the temple, upon which the Jews continued to hang their hopes for the future, were destroyed. This was prophesied by Ezekiel and others to the people of Israel and Judah because of their refusal to repent and turn from their wickedness.

God reminds Ezekiel in this passage of his assignment as a watchman over Israel. A watchman in ancient Israel was one who watched for enemies approaching and sounded a trumpet (shofar) or ram’s horn if he spotted such enemies. The warning was to alert the people of the city to prepare for battle in defending their city. Ezekiel was called of God to be a watchman who would warn the people of Judah of God’s impending judgement on them for their sin. In essence, what Ezekiel had to do was declare God’s word that said God would punish Judah for its idol worship and all the evil practices that went with it. God sternly warned Ezekiel that if he proclaimed the warnings and the people of Judah refused to listen, they would suffer His judgement and wrath and die in their sin. Ezekiel himself would be saved. But if Ezekiel didn’t sound the alarm and give the warnings, the people would still die in their sin, but God would hold Ezekiel responsible for failing to give the prophetic warnings to them.

When I look at how my life has gone, and what I’ve experienced in recent years, I see a number of parallels between myself and Ezekiel. Like the prophet, I too, have been gifted and equipped through training to be a priest or pastor, while given a prophetic voice to go with it. I’ve learned over my years of ministry, that God, in effect, placed a ram’s horn in my hand to sound alarms over what Satan was doing to our nation, western society, and to the church. I’ve sounded the alarm over pornography, abortion, and homosexual behavior with same-sex marriage, all as weapons Satan has used to try to destroy traditional marriage and the family. Ultimately, he has unleashed these weapons so he can destroy the civil society, which will then lead to anarchy and the destruction of the human race. I have experienced oppression and tyranny against me by those who reject God’s truth, even as they work to silence me and take complete control of my life. Their final goal is to see me live not only the way they want me to live, as a homosexual, but to use me to challenge other Christians to forsake the teachings of the Bible and come join the culture in its wickedness.

Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve had people labelling me a homosexual. It’s as far from the reality of who and what I am as one can get (I’ve always been very fond of women and have to be careful how I conduct myself around them). It’s always been a source of frustration, pain and fierce anger for me, and I’ve never handled it that well until recently. I’ve been learning to leave the problem entirely in God’s hands, allowing Him to deal with it His way in accordance with His plans, while remaining silent on the issue. What I have discovered out of all this is that God has laid a calling on me to proclaim His truth concerning homosexual behavior. God has declared it to be an abomination is His sight (Leviticus 18:22), and is not in keeping with what He established for human sexuality as laid out in Genesis 2:24. Jesus reiterated this in the Gospels when he spoke of marriage and human sexuality.

Whether people, especially gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders want to listen to any of that is their choice. But I find a mandate on me from God to stand up and declare His truth concerning these sexual issues, because how else will any of them know what God thinks of their sexual behavior if nobody addresses it? And, how will any from the LGBTQ+ movement know God’s wrath and judgement are coming against them, and even more powerfully against the Marxists encouraging and using them to promote their Utopian cause? It is not up to me to execute justice and vengeance on those who try to take complete control of my life, to force me into becoming a Communist homo. But God has shown me He will on those who won’t repent of their efforts, and His judgement will include death by whatever means He deems necessary for some. It is my task to warn them of what is coming. For that reason I raise the same question to these people that Ezekiel raised to the people of Israel: “Why would you die?” Seek God’s forgiveness instead.