Posted on 07/12/2021 5:32:09 PM PDT by ebb tide
July 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — TYLER, Texas, July 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas took to Twitter on Friday to condemn the use of the rainbow symbol by LGBT activists which he qualified as “a sign of sinful pride and rebellion against God’s commandments” whilst reminding the faithful of the rainbow’s original meaning and Christian origin. original meaning and Christian origin.
Strickland is one of the few bishops who regularly uses Twitter to post on issues relating to the moral and social teachings of the Church on issues such as abortion, transgenderism and homosexuality.
In September of 2020, Strickland posted a series of tweets urging Catholics and fellow bishops to “wake up” and to fight and condemn evils such as abortion and transgenderism which “cut at the very roots of civilisation.”
Strickland’s tweet was posted shortly after the conclusion of “pride month,” with many western countries now giving over the month of June to celebrate LGBT “pride.”
The tweet ends on a prayer for the Church and the world and an invocation to Saint Joseph, patron saint of the Church:
Let us pray for the world and the Church to reject the man-made idols of our time and to once again bow humbly before almighty God. St Joseph pray for us.
“Pride month” remains mostly unchallenged by the overwhelming majority of diocesan bishops and priests and even promoted by some, such as Fr. James Martin who says that it represents “a celebration of the human dignity” and an occasion which is “especially important to celebrate in churches.”
Ping
Celebrating human licentiousness and pervertedness cannot constitute celebrating human dignity.
I constantly tell people, that’s God’s symbol and there will be a price to pay using it for blasphemy.
He’s absolutely correct.
The rainbow is made of seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, from lowest to highest frequency.
Their flag has six colors and doesn’t have either blue, I think, or maybe it’s indigo that’s missing.
Not sure why that is, but I wonder if that’s intentional or not, and if it is, why?
What might be represented by that color, I wonder, that makes them not include it?
Pride didn’t end well for the city of Sodom.
While trying to remind God that he promised with a rainbow to not judge the earth with a flood, they remind God that He said next time He will use fire.
Fire is their future.
Good point!
Very rebellious toward God to use a rainbow, considering what the rainbow symbolizes
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“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
Genesis 6:5-8 NKJV
https://www.bible.com/114/gen.6.5-8.nkjv
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“Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.”
Genesis 7:17-24 NKJV
https://www.bible.com/114/gen.7.17-24.nkjv
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“And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.””
Genesis 9:12-17 NKJV
https://www.bible.com/114/gen.9.12-17.nkjv
Their artificial, imitation rainbow has 6 colors and 6 could be significant as man was created on the 6th day and 6 is said to be the number of man.
Once God is removed and replaced with our image or likeness, as is true with their replacing God’s 7 colored rainbow with their 6 colored rainbow for example, we can be as willfully self-determined as any prodigal son and daughter wants to be.
I’ve read that “Satan apes God” and it’s easy to see how he gets humans to do the same as he does if he can.
For example, they ape God’s rainbow above with their rainbow flag waving in the wind.
Another example is how their versions of marriage ape God’s design for marriage.
Our free will truth is: we’re all sick sinners and Satan knows he can reel any of us in … if … he can catch us on a hook baited with one or more of our hungers, wants or desires.
And, he can, because Satan apes God as a fisher of men, too.
Bad sex is good bait and Satan’s put a lot of chum in the water these days … yikes.
God is light. The part of God that we can see with our eyes is Christ. The part of light that we see with our eyes is the rainbow. Behold he cometh with clouds. Try substituting “Christ” for “rainbow” in Genesis 9:12-17.
Seven is the number of God.
The rebel has no need of God, not when he has himself to love.
And that’s usually the end, one way or another, for any of us as individual rebels, but the ending gets much worse as the number of rebels increases.
I’m thinking when that number hits critical mass, so to speak, we’re done. It’s The End of our story.
In the history of colors, for a long time orange didn’t have it’s own name but was yellow-red. This is why the color is named after the fruit. Many primitive societies had no word for blue. I like the 7-color rainbow, although the word for indigo would be better if it were one of two syllables.
Thanks for the interesting information!
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