Below you will find an article that is running as a Moral Compass piece on the Wonderfulworldtomorrow.org. I wanted to send it to all of you as a reminder that those things that are happening around us that are so frustrating and disgusting do have an end. This past week California's ban on homosexual marriage was struck down by a judge who told 7 million voters they don't know what is right. Such opinions will continue to come down from the courts. The Bible is clear on where things are headed in this world. This country wasn't alluded to as Sodom and Gomorrah without good reason.

I hope this short article will strengthen you as we all continue to pray, "Thy kingdom Come."

Do You Want To Save Your Neck?

When a few have a fixed and firm agenda, while most don’t, the few are going to get their way. That is what the citizens of California experienced this past week when their will to not recognize a homosexual’s right to marry was thrown down by a judge who bent to the agenda of the few. Will this event open the way for Gays to begin marrying again in California? No one can say when it might happen; but in time, the few who are focused and firm about what they want will have their way.

So how important is it that you, average citizen, have a firm and fixed agenda? Let’s take a look at the Bible and find an example of standing firm and being focused, and also find out how it can work for good, instead of harm.

Let’s talk about Noah.

Worldwide, most countries acknowledge evidence there was anciently a great cataclysmic event that brought a flood to the entire earth. With such a mammoth disaster occurring, how is it that we are here today? The Bible tells us why. Noah. Noah was a man – a righteous man – living in a world wherein everyone, and I mean everyone else, had abandoned righteousness for a life of ease, licentiousness, and in many instances, just plain violence. Polygamy, adultery, and homosexuality were rampant. The world was filled with hatred and strife and all but one man had fallen into the ways of their world to one degree or another -- all that is but Noah.

The world during this time had forgotten about God even though there were still men who had known individuals who could give testimony to the lives of Adam and Eve, and who knew the children of those two famous individuals. Noah was born in a time when he could actually know the ancient patriarchs mentioned living on the earth during Adam’s time and beyond. He learned from their stories about God and creation and the reason men were made on the earth. And he believed them.

Because he believed, it set him apart from most others who no longer seemed to care as to why they were put on the earth, or why Adam and Eve had been expelled from the Garden of Eden -- the precursor of all mystical lands of beauty and delight. They knew the ancient stories too as they flowed down from family member to family member gaining more and more mystical qualities as they surfaced in each generation. Only a few did not embellish their stories, but stayed with the truth, and Noah received wisdom from them.

As stated earlier, Noah did not go the way of the world. He did not learn to go along to get along. He didn’t set his morals aside or turn off his intellect in order to believe perverse human behavior was normal or had any redeemable quality to it. Instead of endorsing, he condemned. Instead of going along, he preached against wickedness. Instead of laying aside his beliefs to go along with the whims of a sick world, he stood fast.

Then the rains came. The Bible says it rained 40 days and forty nights while vast quantities of water came up out of the earth and poured down from heaven. This rain was a supernatural event. It was meant to destroy all life, to wash clean a polluted earth, and to erase away all evidence of a sick and degenerate civilization. And it did.

But Noah?

Noah was spared the death by drowning that took the lives of every man, woman, child and animal not protected within the walls of a great Ark he had been instructed by God to build. The Ark – a great gigantic floating vessel large enough to accommodate pairs of all land animals on earth -- was a place of safety for Noah. It had been built day by day while God plead through Noah’s preaching with the inhabitants of the world to repent of their wickedness. They wouldn’t repent so down the deluge came. All but Noah and a few of his family members died. The rest had simply buried their heads in sin, and sin had overpowered them. They became flotsam and jetsam floating on the great sea that covered the face of the earth.

The lesson of Noah is clear. Standing on principle, being fixed and focused, not bowing to the pressure of those around you, not giving up the truth for a lie, can save your life. Teaching your family members to stand firmly can save their lives as well. This, of course, is an age-old lesson, but let’s admit it. Noah’s name is a household word today. What he did in the face of great pressure to compromise and give in plays in our memories as though it occurred yesterday. Down inside, we know the story is true. There’s plenty of evidence to confirm it, and even still there are those who hunt the cliffs of Mt. Ararat in Turkey to find the remains of the Ark. That Ark speaks to us today. Will you listen?