(Genesis 1:27, 2:24, 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:17; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Timothy 3:2,12)

***DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, Thank You for Your love and blessings. I pray today that You help me to touch even just ONE life for You. If it is a kind act, a kind word, or the opportunity to tell someone about Your love, USE ME TODAY FOR YOUR GLORY! In the name of Jesus…AMEN!!!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: How the main information platforms will eventually silence Biblically base content. Word has been leaking out that several major big tech firms have been contacting the heads of the most trafficked conservative websites to warn them to “self-censor” in what can only be called INFORMATION EXTORTION! Highly trafficked websites of whatever content are businesses. A big chunk of their business model is their presence on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google. They pay huge amounts of money to these high tech companies for ads that promote and d! rive traffic
their social media pages and website. In return, they generate significant amounts of money by monetizing their social media and website traffic. Here is where the INFORMATION EXTORTION comes in. With each passing month, big tech controls more and more of the information average people receive on a given day. As I warned, the closer we would get to the Presidential election last November, the more big tech would literally censor content. They became so brazen, they literally banned a President of the United States from their platforms while maintaining some of the world’s most evil and dangerous dictators! Anyone watching came to understand they no longer were making excuses, just flexing their muscles. You either posted content they agreed with, and if not, they would simply take your content down or just cancel your account. Big tech does not like any content that questions the Chinese-Flu vaccination. They also don’t like anyone telling the truth about evil globalists! George Soros
and Bill Gates. You certainly can’t post any FACTS that bring into question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. You also can’t post negative comments about Black Lives Matter. So the message they sent to these high profile conservative websites was a simple one. Self-censor or your traffic will get throttled, your reach will be restricted, you could actually be de-platformed. The message was clear, “BE CAREFUL WHAT CONTENT YOU ARE PUTTING OUT INTO THE PUBLIC…OR ELSE!” Sadly, these businesses being threatened have to take those threats seriously and make decisions based on how taking a stand on certain issues could hurt or even destroy their ongoing operations. Subsequently, do they even mention some issues? On issues they do bring up, do they tell the full truth or pull back so they don’t upset their big tech masters? While Liveprayer has a YouTube channel for our TV program, a Facebook page and Twitter account, I have never spent a DIME with these companies fo! r ads or promotion.
We obviously don’t make any money being on these platforms either, but that is fine. Our only purpose is to post our daily content, the Daily Devotional, the TV program, and if one day we are taken down it won’t affect our operations one bit since all of our main content operations are generated on our own servers and website so they can’t silence us! Two important things to take from this. First, understand that even the supposed “gold standard” conservative sites are leaving out issues and holding back some truth out of fear. THEY ARE COMPROMISED! Second, at some point big tech will exercise their censorship when they decide it is time to shut down all Biblically-based truth. That day my friend, is at hand as I type these words. The globalists will ultimately seek to drive the church underground as it is in China, North Korea, Iran, and other places in the world today. However, Liveprayer will continue to be a beacon of light in the darkness and loud voice in th! e marketplace
despite those who want to silence HIS Truth from reaching the ears of the lost and hurting!!!

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Does the Bible support polygamy since many of God’s men had multiple wives? Many years ago, people thought I was joking when I said once the nation decides to allow same sex marriage, they would then have to legalize someone who wanted to marry 3, 4, 5 women or men! After all, once you pervert God’s definition of marriage, who can say you can’t love 3 women, or 3 men? According to the logic of those who CHOOSE to engage in sex with someone of the same sex, how dare anyone say who a person can love? If I am in love with a duck, who out there can deny me the ability to marry my duck???

Because we! have now perverted
God’s definition of marriage, many states are actually legalizing polygamy! Go ahead and laugh like so many did 10 years ago when I told you men would soon legally marry men, women would soon legally marry women! But that is good news for those in the satanic cult of Beck and Romney. They had to give up polygamy in order for Utah to be recognized as a state, though polygamy is still practiced by many true Mormon cult members despite it being illegal. Their cult also teaches a man who become “god” after death will have multiple wives. Soon, they will be able to legally practice what their cult has taught since its’ inception.

What about polygamy? When you read God’s Word, you read about great men of faith, men who lived their lives for God like Abraham and Solomon. These men did great things for God and are used as examples of how to live a Godly life. These men were also richly blessed by God. However, they all had one glaring issue that cannot be ignored. They all had! multiple
wives! This fact often confuses people who are curious how these great men of God could be so blessed but living in blatant rebellion to God in this area of their life. The reality is, they forfeited many of the blessings they should have had because of this sin in their life.

The Bible is perfectly clear about God’s Holy Institution of Marriage. It is one man, with one woman, for one lifetime. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eve and Julie. Or Adam and Eve, Julie, Cathy, and Susan. God’s plan for marriage was one man and one woman. In Genesis 2:24, God’s intention is clearly presented when He says, “They shall be one flesh.” In giving the qualifications for a king in Deuteronomy Chapter 17, Verse 17, God clearly states that the king was not to have multiple wives. In giving the qualifications for those who lead the church in 1 Timothy 3:2 and 12 and in Titus 1:6, the Bible states that these men are to have only one wife. This passage in the Greek is not only spe! aking of
someone who has not been divorced, but makes it clear that having multiple wives disqualified someone to be in a leadership position.

You actually don’t have to get very far into human history to see God’s plan for marriage perverted. The first Biblical account of men taking multiple wives is recorded in Genesis 4:19 where a man names Lamech took two wives. Having multiple wives throughout history has always been a mark of nations, people groups, who lived their lives in rebellion to the God of the Bible.Sadly, some have tried to justify polygamy by pointing to men of God in the Bible like Abraham and others who had multiple wives. They are 100% wrong and there is NO WAY to justify polygamy by using the Bible.

Let me make sure you understand something perfectly clear. God never permitted at any time for men to have multiple wives. When we read about Abraham and others taking multiple wives, we also read about the consequences of this sin in their life. Don’t forg! et what I
tell you often. Our obedience to God and His Word brings blessings, our rebellion to God and His Word brings consequences! There will ALWAYS be consequences when you choose to live in rebellion to God. Even great men of God like Abraham, like Solomon, were not immune to the consequences when they chose to sin against God.

One of the things I love about God’s Word is that it does not try to hide the failings of men who did great things for God in their lives. Look at David. His sin with Bathsheba could have been omitted, but God allowed his sin to be exposed to all of the generations through His Word. The consequences of Abraham’s sin in taking another wife are still being felt in the world today since the Jewish people are directly linked back to his son with Sarah, Isaac, and the Arab people directly linked back to his son with Hagar, Ishmael. When you read about Abraham having to send Hagar and her son away due to the conflict with Sara and Isaac, I am not sure we ca! n begin
to fully comprehend the human emotions of such a tragic event.

Then you have Solomon. As I shared with you the other day in speaking of Solomon and his summation of what this life is about in Ecclesiastes 12:13, I have carefully studied his life. Solomon is a very complex individual and a classic study of someone who gets so caught up in the success and allure of this world they forsake God. Solomon followed God since his youth, became the King of Israel, finished building the Temple of God in Jerusalem started by his father David. He is probably best known for his incredible wisdom. As you read about the life of Solomon you can see the hand and blessings of God upon him.

Despite having God’s favor and blessings, Solomon allowed the temporal things of this world to take priority over his commitment to God. Being allowed by God to gain victory over the enemies of Israel, Solomon took part in a custom of that day where the conquering king, Solomon, was given the da! ughter of
the defeated king to be his wife. So Solomon not only began taking multiple wives (against God’s admonition in Deuteronomy 17:17), these were women from heathen nations that did not know or honor the God of Israel and brought their false gods with them into the marriage. Over time, Solomon ended up with 700 wives and 300 concubines. (Personal observation: It is clear that by this time in his life, Solomon used up all of his wisdom, since having one wife is a full time commitment. 700? The thought makes my head hurt.)

One reason God says in His Word in 2 Corinthians 6:14 “do not be yoked together with unbelievers” is because of the negative influence your unbelieving spouse will have on your faith. Solomon was a great example of a man who knew, followed, and served God, but became influenced by the false gods and idols of his foreign wives. This is exactly why God told the children of Israel to not take “strange wives,” or wives from nations that worshiped false gods. A! t a time
in his life when Solomon should have been enjoying the blessings of God, instead he was dealing with the consequences of his rebellion to God from having multiple and foreign wives. His life actually ends with little fanfare and rather sadly due to his sin. SIN ALWAYS COSTS, AND ALWAYS COSTS MORE THAN WE EXPECT TO PAY!

I love you and care about you so much. Polygamy is becoming legal in certain states and I am getting emails from people asking what does the Bible say? It has never been a practice of most in our culture, however there are those who advocate having multiple wives, and there are other nations around the world in which it is an acceptable practice. Due to the fact we have some of the great men of God in the Bible who took multiple wives, I thought it was important to deal with this issue and insure you understood that this was never God’s plan for marriage and those who take multiple wives are clearly in rebellion to God and His Word.

I will be prayi! ng for
you today. I want to specifically pray for those who are married today. Marriage is God’s Holy Institution. It is a wonderful gift from God and his plan for most people’s lives. It is one of the most difficult things in the world for two people to become one. But with the Lord at the center of your lives together, it can be the most incredible and special thing in your life other than your relationship with Christ. For those who are going through a problem in your marriage today, I will be praying for God to bring healing and restoration to you remarriage. For those who are not having problems, I will pray that you continue to be richly blessed in your marriage each day.

In His love and service,

Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller