Thanks for Clearing That Up

     Since the beginning of the world, an unseen battle has been raging between good and evil, between God and Satan.  Despite what our culture or circumstances indicate, God has an intricate master plan for the earth and everything in it.  Satan's plan, however, is simple--do the opposite of what God is doing. God made Adam holy and eternal.  Satan made Adam sinful and dying.  God planned redemption through the perfect God/man.  Satan attempted to muddy the blood of humanity with an interbreeding program.  Although little scripture is devoted to this incident in Gen. 6:3,4, the punishment of the angels indicates the severity of God's displeasure. According to Jude 6, from the time of the flood until the final judgement, the offending angels have been chained in darkness.
   The thing that amazes me is that Jude uses this as an illustration of his warning against apostates.  An illustration is using a simple, well known concept to help explain a complex one.  I would hate to find out what Jude thinks is a hard concept.  If it's "not nice to fool Mother Nature", it is damnable to try to foul up God's plan of salvation. The antediluvian (see, I know big words too) intermarriage of daughters of men with sons of God is a topic I'm glad I was never given as a five page essay assignment.  Whatever its significance, it did not receive much press in the Bible.
   God planned for man to be fruitful and multiply, Gen. 1:28.  Satan's counter to that plan was homosexuality.  Despite the reproductive options available in our time, homosexuality is, by nature, sterile.  I believe that is why it is punished by death in the Old Testament.  It attempts to derail God's plan for the continuation of man.  Adoption, surrogacy and invitro fertilization have made it possible for homosexuals to have children, but those methods rely on old fashioned male/female sexual reproduction.  Gay activists would not need to encourage cultural acceptance of homosexuality for future generations, because if all men were gay and all women were lesbian, there would be no future generations.  At least that is my take from my study of scripture.
   However I would not use either of these example to clarify a teaching such as knowing God's will for your life.  Generally it is not helpful to use examples that are more confusing that the concept you are explaining.  Hey Jude, thanks for clearing that up.