Self Prostitution

   

     Those who prostitute themselves for gain are the most desperate of people. Prostitutes, until recently, have been the lowest level of society. Respectable women would not associate with "ladies of the evening", and lascivious men would engage their services even as they called them "whores." 

     The classic biblical example of self-righteous attitudes are about the adulterous woman at whom the mob was ready to stone to death. Jesus, said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" (John 8:7). They all walked away, as Jesus convicted them all! 

     Prostitutes fornicate for money, which, of course, its love is the root of all evil. It's not actually the money for which people prostitute themselves, but lusts for things - worldly pleasures. Prostitutes sell their bodies for pleasure, and "johns" sell their principles for the pleasure of their company. Demons are the pimps. There was a German legend written about that very subject:

The writer, Johann Georg Faust, is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures (Wikipedia; "Faust").

     For pleasure, "johns" (those who pay women for sexual favors) make a pact with the devil, just as Faust, for pleasure, made a pact with him.  Faust prostituted himself for worldly pleasure. He sold his eternal soul to the Devil for temporal pleasure. The Devil pimped him for so that Faust would have self-satisfaction. Faust was the prostitute and the john.
     Christians are those who are righteous, and hold allegiance to God. They will serve God as they do his "good" will, but it's not for pleasure, but for hope and contentment. When Christians or anyone serve Satan, they are Fausts as they pursue pleasure. People - men and women - prostitute themselves to satisfy their lusts or to elevate themselves (prideful reasons). Sinful lifestyles are essentially self-prostitution. All of those ready to stone were adulterers and fornicators just as the woman, and they all prostituted themselves. God made her clean, but the other adulterers just walked away in shame without repenting.
     There was another case of prostitution which comes to mind: The Jews prostituted themselves to their adversaries. Isaiah convicted them when he said, "For your iniquities have ye sold yourselves." Judaism, not Messianic Judaism, is a form of prostitution as is any sinful behavior. (I am not condemning the Jews but merely explaining that they were at one time destroyed for iniquity.) Isaiah made the accusation on behalf of God. Eventually, God sent the Persians, and like the adulterous woman, they were made clean again, for awhile anyway. In scripture, the Jews are always "the adulterous woman." Th adulterous woman was forgiven for the purpose of convicting the Jews of their own adultery.
     In the Bible, "the harlot Babylon" is mentioned and warned: "And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth" (Rev 17:5).  Just who is "the mother of harlots?" Isaiah "for your transgressions is your mother put away." The Jews are the "mother of the harlots." Who then are the harlots? The same people as in Isaiah's time - the Babylonians; thus "the harlot Babylon." They, along with the false Christians, will dwell in the tents of Shem (Gen 9:27). That "tent" for the iniquitous is Jerusalem. The adulterous woman (the Jews) will be forgiven and made clean (the 144,000 Jews who accept Christ). Those who prostitute themselves will walk away from their "first love," and not seek forgiveness.
     Who has resided in the new Babylon - Jerusalem - these many years? Islam! Jerusalem is the harlot Babylon for becoming a "tent" for the unfaithful - Jews and Muslims. Not to be outdone, iniquitous "Christians" - liberal Christianity - are whores themselves. All combined, non-Christians are the prostitutes. God will deal with the unfaithful with justice, whether calling themselves Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or even Christians!
      Christians who fail to serve God by continuing in sin are some of the prostitutes, and for what do they prostitute themselves? Pleasure. How shameful as they merely turn their backs to the One who can cleanse them. Today is the day of salvation because tomorrow may not come. No one should walk away; if Jesus can cleanse the adulterer, he can cleanse the prostitutes.