The Pride Flag Is A Hateful Symbol
The Gay Pride Flag is a hateful symbol, which, in some ways, is “worse” than the flag the Nazis flew. It certainly is “worse” than the Confederate Flags that are often flown. How so? The answer is contained in the Bible.
Neither/Nor
Neither the Nazi Flag or the Confederate Flag take a symbol that is inherently given in the Bible to try to usurp and use it for their own ends. The Nazi flag does borrow from a symbol that meant “good luck” and modified it. The original symbol (the swastika) concerned the stations of the Big Dipper in the night sky. This constellation was often likened to “The Plow” because it had to do with the changing seasons and when your crops should be in various states. The Confederate Flag was a modified “Union Jack” flag, which invokes Jacob, as Jack is a nickname for Jacob. The idea behind such a construction was that there was about to be some “Jacob’s Trouble” and a “new attempt at order” which came via rebellion. So, both the “plow” and “Jacob” are in the Bible, but neither of them are outright featured on the flags mentioned here. You have to know a little extra to understand where the symbolism might be and how it relates, and what is being said in context. Both of the kinds of folks who used these flags in such clever ways did some terrible things, but they both seemed to have enough fear of God that they did not want to brazenly steal something directly from the Bible that could be considered to be sacred to God. That’s a whole other level.
Enter The Pride Flag
The Pride Flag, however, does steal the symbol, directly. The rainbow is well known from the Bible as the symbol from Heaven that YHVH would not flood the entire earth again. The rainbow is also sometimes considered to be a kind of weapon that YHVH can use as He “fires arrows from His bow”. More often, this concerns a different expression of the rainbow than we think of from the standard rainbow. Probably, the physical version of this state is more akin to the “double rainbow” we sometimes see in nature. The light in a double rainbow is twice refracted, which creates a mirrored rainbow in the sky.
Pride Is a Deadly Sin
Putting aside for a moment that Pride is one of the deadly sins that caused angels to rebel and fall from heaven, it is worth examining how this symbol was stolen to create the hateful symbol it has become:
It goes back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to create a symbol of pride for the gay community. Baker decided to make that symbol a flag because he saw flags as the most powerful symbol of pride. As he later said in an interview, “Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible, to live in the truth, as I say, to get out of the lie. A flag really fit that mission, because that’s a way of proclaiming your visibility or saying, ‘This is who I am!’” Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit).
source: https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride
A “natural flag from the sky”? You mean that thing that YHVH put up there? Baker apparently looked up, decided to cut YHVH out of the equation, and to impose his own meaning. What was it? Sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, art, harmony, and spirit? Again, the irony here is thick, since the earth was flooded due to giants having unnatural relations of which gay sex is a subset. Nonetheless, I guess if a person is making their own flag, they can make it mean whatever they want, but if you base it on something that belongs to YHVH, you are going to have some trouble sooner or later with that notion.
A discerning eye will notice that the Pride Flag as it exists today does not have all these colors. What happened?
The first versions of the rainbow flag were flown on June 25, 1978, for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. Baker and a team of volunteers had made them by hand, and now he wanted to mass-produce the flag for consumption by all. However, because of production issues, the pink and turquoise stripes were removed and indigo was replaced by basic blue, which resulted in the contemporary six-striped flag (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet). Today this is the most common variant of the rainbow flag, with the red stripe on top, as in a natural rainbow. The various colors came to reflect both the immense diversity and the unity of the LGBTQ community. source: ibid
Sex and harmony and art were removed? Sex and art probably should not have been there anyway, but taking the harmony out of it? What does that leave? Life, healing, sunlight, nature, and spirit. Since blue was not originally in the design, we do not know what it means, but the Mother of YHSVH is often depicted in art with a blue coloration around Her. Therefore, if we are not sure what it means, we can deduce since the flag was “stealing” things that YHVH placed in nature, that the goal here is to try to steal nature itself out of pride and replace the “mother” with something else. In other words, the Pride Flag hates the mother and nature, and seeks to replace it with its own defined relationships that are counter to the kinds that YHVH has ordained for humanity.
YHVH and Homosexuality
Homosexuality is defined as something stronger than the typical word for sin in the Bible. It is defined as an abomination, or something hateful. Worse still, abomination usually occurs with another word frequently, which is desolation. While sin can kill people, homosexuality is considered to be so hateful to YHVH that it brings about destruction in a more rapid way than any other given sin. This was the testimony, for instance, of Sodom and Gomorrah when the men of Gomorrah wanted to “know” the angels. It was the last straw.
YHSVH and Homosexuality
Many times people will say that the Messiah did not address Homosexuality. He did not have to since He said He came to fulfill the law and not to alter it. In the Hebraic culture, it was a given that such relationships were inherently unlawful and forbidden. It would be a bit like telling people today that you should not murder a child because you feel like it. (Although with abortion being where it is, that might prove more controversial now) His ministry was for the End of Days, which would feature the Abomination of Desolation which, if you are carefully following the reasoning outlined, concerns homosexuality directly. It could be that He did not say directly anything concerning the subject in our recorded Bibles because when He returns He will use those who think this form of love is not forbidden as an instant judgment of the condition of their hearts and love of lawlessness. The kind of love Messiah gave to the world was not a sexual matter as such, but a kind of universal love of mankind that keeps the right relationships established on the face of the Earth.
I Know…
Now, I know there are a lot of you out there that don’t want to believe what I’ve just said, but I’m not the person you want to take this matter up with as I’ve put the above to the test. I had a ministry and outreach to people who struggled with these problems, and my church, home, and business were attacked by members of the Pride movement who made up false claims about what I was doing because I did not “come to a Pride event”. It did not matter that my ministry and business was such that I did not come to any given event, so as not to break the HARMONY of what I was doing by showing a kind of favoritism or alignment concerning my business values in the community. I viewed all sin as potential problems to be repented from and worked through and that nobody had the edge on being the biggest sinner. While my business served people who were straight, gay, and in between, as well as did my ministry, the Pride movement was not going to have it, and hatefully libeled my business and tried to organize a kind of gang-stalking in response to their perceived slight. It was not an isolated incident, as I wrote to the GLADD alliance and explained what had happened in the hopes that they might try to repair or address what transpired. They did not, and neither did many of the institutions in government and law enforcement. So, my testimony, evidence, and experience is that the Pride Flag is a symbol of hatred, and there is no other interpretation for it. It should be seen in the same light, if not worse, than flying a Nazi flag, or a Confederate flag and hate crime laws should apply to it along with the legal penalties associated with such speech and actions.
Not About Inclusion
Even if the colors on the flag were changed, it would not change the problems associated with the flag indicated above. While a person can own a flag, they cannot own a rainbow, and anyone in the PRIDE movement ought to understand what hate speech is and what it can do. The only remaining things are to hold those responsible for these hateful acts accountable. It may be only by the King of Kings, but then, that will be more than sufficient.