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    Pope cheers East Timor's recovery while acknowledging a bishop's abuse scandal

    By NICOLE WINFIELDNINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press,

    2024-09-09
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    Harvey Hobby
    09-09
    Outside are dogs.Revelation 22:15—For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of gods (elohim) and everyone who professes to love, yet practices breaking the Laws.Notice the word dogs. This word translated dogs is speaking of sodomites or homosexuals—men who have sex with men. Notice from Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 1206:“Sodomite (Heb. qadesh, “consecrated, devoted”). The sodomites were not inhabitants of Sodom,nor their descendents, but men consecrated to the unnatural vice of Sodom (cf. Gen. 19:5; Rom. 1:27) as a religious rite. This dreadful “consecration,” or, rather, desecration, was spread in different forms over Phoenicia, Syria, Phrygia, Assyria, and Bab- ylonia. Ashtaroth, the Greek Astarte, was its chief object. The term was especially applied to the emas- culated priests of Cybele, called Galli, perhaps from the river Gallus in Bithynia, which was said to make those who drank it mad.” In Deut. 23:17 the tolera- tion of a sodomite (“cult prostitute,” NASB; “shrine prostitute,” NIV) was expressly forbidden, and the pay received by a sodomite was not to be put into the Temple treasury (v.18). “The wages of a dog” is a figurative expression used to denote the gains ofa qadesh (sodomite) who was called kinaidos by the Greeks, because of the doglike manner in which he abased himself (see Rev. 22:15, where the uncleanare called “dogs”).Now notice what Yahweh’s Prophets said about these evillusts that are being forced on your ch
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