“Except the LORD of hosts had left for us a very small remnant,
we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah.”
Isaiah 1:19
The abomination of perverse immorality plagued ancient Judah, too. Judging by what Isaiah said, homosexuality had all but taken over the little nation in his day.
Later, a hundred years after Isaiah was called and anointed by God to prophesy to the Israelites, young King Josiah began his reign. Unlike Isaiah, Josiah had the authority and means to do something about the despicable perverseness of God’s people. The single act that Josiah performed which best shows how far into debauchery God’s own people had sunk is recorded in 2Kings 23:7: “And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the temple of the LORD where the women wove hangings for the grove.”
Yes, a hundred years after the LORD lamented through Isaiah that His people had given themselves to the demons of homosexuality, His people had become so depraved that they had built houses for homosexual activity right beside the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem. And notice that the Bible says “houses”, not “house”. There were so many queers in Israel by Josiah’s time that just one house was not enough. There may have been a bunch of them; we are not told how many.
Be patient, my brothers and sisters in Christ. It will get worse in our time, too. The abomination will increase. But you keep yourselves pure. Jesus will come and make all things right again, for God has promised, “though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished.” In the meantime, be still, and be faithful.
