Back in 1993 I wrote an article which i distributed on the very early Internet (years before the Worldwide Web, with email and Usenet) and on “Fidonet” about the Torah being for all generations forever. This article evolved into a booklet titled “Freedom in Torah” and my “Truth about Torah” tape set by the late 1990’s and parts of it have been expanded into many of the blogs I have published on the Worldwide Web in the years since. One of the points I made in this blog was that if we follow the logic of Christendom, that “Jesus” did away with the law, to its fullest conclusion, then not only was it ok to eat pork and work on Saturday, homosexuality would be OK. I proved my point by quoting such arguments being made at the time in pamphlets put out by the Metropolitan Community Church (the gay church). At that time I wrote:
Now you may be saying to yourself: “Ok, so they teach Torah-lessness, but don’t the Torah-less teachers of 2Peter & Jude go so far as to teach sexual immorality? Surely the Torah-less teachers of within the church would never use their “the Torah is not for today” teaching to promote sexual immorality.” Wrong! Some of Christendom’s teachers have already carried the “the Torah is not for today” reasoning to its fullest and logical conclusion. A sect of Christendom known as “The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches” (MCC) has published a tract which does just that. The nameless author of the tract writes:
“Another Scripture verse that is used to show that the Bible condemns the gay lifestyle is found in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus, 18:22, “Thou shalt not lie with a man as thou would with a woman.” Anyone who is concerned about this prohibition should read the whole chapter or the whole Book of Leviticus: No pork, no lobster, no shrimp, no oysters, no intercourse during the menstrual period, no rare meats, no eating blood, no inter-breeding of cattle, and a whole host of other laws, including the Law to kill all divorced people who remarry.
“As Christians, our Law is from Christ. St. Paul clearly taught that Christians are no longer under the Old Law (for example in Galatians 3:23-24); that the Old Law is brought to an end in Christ (Romans 10:4); and its fulfillment is in love (Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14). The New Law of Christ is the Law of Love. Neither Jesus, nor Paul, nor any of the New Testament Scriptures implies that Christians are held to the cultic or ethical laws of the Mosaic Law.”
(Homosexuality; What the Bible Does and Does not Say; Universal Fellowship press, 1984, p. 3)
Thus Christendom’s teaching that “the Torah is not for today” is already being used to “turn the grace of our Elohim into perversion.” (Jude 1:4; see also 2 Peter 2:18-21)
At the time I wrote these words (1993) my point was that normative Christians would find such an argument repugnant, and that an argument that proves too much (that Homosexuality is acceptable) proves nothing at all (and therefore cannot be used to argue for eating pork, working on Saturday, etc.). I had no idea that when I presented this argument in 1993, that it would become obsolete in my own lifetime! I never imagined that in the following decades, mainline Christian denominations would actually embrace this very argument, and begin to excuse homosexuality and even ordain homosexual priests and pastors!
Yet the Scriptures foretold this very apostate extreme saying that they would “turn the grace of our Elohim into perversion.” (Jude 1:4; see also 2 Peter 2:18-21)
Now in 2021 we are seeing this level of apostasy in mainline Christian denominations, not just the MCC!
But as the apostasy of Christendom is seeking its lowest low, Elohim has also begun to do a marvelous work and a wonder with the restoration of the ancient sect of Nazarene Judaism, the original Jewish followers of Yeshua as the Messiah!
There is indeed a spiritual battle taking place. It is a battle between the truth and a lie. It is a battle between light and darkness. It is a battle led by the one who came to bear witness to the Torah, and the one who comes to bear witness to Torah-lessness.
It has been my honor to have spearheaded that restoration since the late 1980’s But there is so much more work to be done in this restoration, and I need your help to get it done.
I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for your financial support. I do not know why this should be, but donations for November and December are way down from what they normally should be. Some of you may have had extra expenses for this period. That’s fine, and I in no way want you to take away from your own welfare or that of your family to support this work, but I do feel it is proper to inform you of this problem of being behind budget and that we need your help to make ends meet. May the blessings of Elohim be with each of you. With deep appreciation for your help,
James Scott Trimm
In these uncertain times, we need your support more than ever. The time is short, and there is much work to be done. This is no time to pull back from the great work in front of us!
As I have said to you many times, I look on this work as a co-operative one with me, and all of you combining our resources together in order to get the job done of helping to teach this great truth to all in the world who will listen. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your continued support, you are the ones who make it all possible by your contributions and your prayers for our work. I truly appreciate your help in every way.
If you can make a one time donation of $500 or $1,000 dollars to support this work.
Now is time to step up to the plate!
