David Ernest Alsobrook - The Bible truth on abortion : do you have bloody hands or a bleeding heart?

THE BIBLE TRUTH ON

Do you hove bloody hands or a bleeding heart?

By David Alsobrook

Contents

Foreword:
"my mother might have been my grave"
1 Modern Molech Worship
2 You "Breathed" Before You Were Born!
3 Known In The Womb
4 The Dignity and Sacredness Of Life
5 God Will Defend The Fatherless
6 What Shall We Then Do?
7 How To Answer Unbelievers
8 There Is Hope!

Foreword:

"my mother might have been my grave"

In 1973 the Supreme Court of the United States made a fateful decision in a landmark case. The justices ruled in Roe vs Wade that the termination of unborn life is a legal right. On January 22, 1973 the United States Supreme Court ruled that a woman had "a right to privacy" broad enough to include abortion. This was declared to be her basic constitutional right. The court further stated that

"legal personhood does not exist prenatally" thus striking down all laws against abortion in all 50 states. Our noble nation has since witnessed the abortion of more than seventeen million of her unwanted citizens.

Recent polls reveal a rude awakening in the minds of previously unconcerned millions. They are alarmed by the ugly reality of abortion. Armed with both scientific fact and moral logic, there are many in every strata of society energetically supporting numerous efforts to rectify the present wrong. Not since the abolitionist movement of the previous century has America witnessed such a long and sharpened debate. Not since Lincoln has the religious conscience of our country protested so loudly over a national practice.

Most Americans who profess an actual conversion experience to Jesus Christ are overwhelmingly opposed to the legalized slaughter of unborn human life. In my travels and countless conversations with Christians, this subject invariably rises on a fervent and continuing basis. The reasons I usually hear from believers for opposing abortion are based on the great philosophical and moralistic values traditional with our culture.

During a recent trip while driving alone with the Lord for many hours I heard His clear and unmistakable voice:

"Too few believers base their convictions on abortion solely and squarely on the Word of God." As I continued down the highway in the precious communion of the Holy Ghost my heart was strangely warmed. Jesus opened the Scriptures to me in a new way! I would like to share some of these truths with you. Jeremiah said, "My mother might have been my grave" had he died in the womb (Jeremiah 20:17).

We are going to study about those who are killed in the womb from the Bible point of view...

Modern Molech Worship

One of the abominations ancient Israel sometimes copied from their heathen neighbors was the practice of molechism. From what I have been able to gather*, it was a large idol, half-man and half-bull, with a hollow abdomen.

Under the enlarged genitals of the bull part of the image, a fire burned until the hollow abdomen glowed with heat.

The ancient idolaters danced and performed various types of sexual activity with several partners in front of this false god. The reveling continued until a small child, a son or daughter of one of the orgy participants, was thrown alive into the red hot abdominal cavity. The child was seared to deathits shrieks and cries only inciting greater mass hysteria. The burnt remains were removed from the other side of Molech the following day, after the idol had cooled.

As shocking as it may sound, God's ancient people, Israel, who had experienced the one and true God through His covenant with the Patriarchs, sometimes backslid into Molech worship! Such a base form of idolatry may be partially understood in the ignorant heathen unto whom the Living God was not revealed. What is difficult to comprehend is how a people who had seen the wondrous acts of Yahweh could be so greatly deceived! In either case, the conscience was seared because basic morality teaches man to care for his young.

* The Moabites and Ammonites (who were despised by godly Israelites for their ungodly lifestyle) were devoted worshipers of Molech, or "Chemosh" as it was known by the Moabites. "Molech" means "king" and was named "Amuna-Ra" in Egypt which means "king of the gods."

Some scholars think a large plate of polished metal in front of the idol's hideous countenance was heated onto which worshipers threw their children alive following unspeakable immoralities. See Dake's Annotated Reference Bible and Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies for more information. Especially notice the following scriptures: Numbers 25:1-3; 1 Kings 14:22-24; 2 Kings 16:3-4; 2 Chronicles 28:3-4; Jeremiah 19:4-5; Ezekiel 16:20-22.

Israel was further without excuse because God Himself warned them specifically through His servant Moses before they entered Canaan:

"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire... For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deuteronomy 18:10,12).

When the psalmist was recounting these sad lapses in Israel's history, he plainly said the sacrificing of children was demon worship. The children who were thus killed were innocent, and the blood-polluted land cried out for God's judgment. As a result, Israel found themselves in shame and impoverishment, taken over by their enemies.

Note carefully this passage and see if you can find a modern parallel in our "civilized" nation:

"Yes, they even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. They shed innocent blood...till the land was polluted with blood...therefore the Lord's anger burned against His people...He turned them over to the control of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them" (Psalm 106:37-41, Berkely).

The observance of Molech worship was an idolatrous practice which brought swift and terrible judgment on Israel. As already stated, the Molech idolaters performed various types of sexual activity in front of their false god as a prelude to sacrificing their innocent children. IN PRINCIPLE OUR NATION IS DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING! Unrestrained sex in the name of "liberation" has resulted in a large proportion of the unwanted aborted pregnancies. An updated version of Molech worship is alive in our present day as millions engage in unbridled promiscuity. The children so conceived are killed in the abdomens of modern idolaters as they throw their children on the fire plate of Molech in worship to the god of sex!

Molech worship is indeed alive today across our land, as this word from Ezekiel clearly shows:

"The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; They that have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto Me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them...Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled" (Ezekiel 23:36-37,46).

If America falls and ceases as a nation, I am persuaded of the Lord that it will be due to moral rather than military weakness. The erosion of America's founding values will result in barrenness and desolation. America's only hope is a deep and sincere repentance. Otherwise our great land, for whom I weep, will not be healed. Judgment is coming! There are many parallels between ancient Israel and modern America.

"If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land...But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots...everyone that passeth by it...shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land?..And it shall be answered, BECAUSE THEY FORSOOK THE LORD GOD OF THEIR FATHERS...and laid hold on other gods..." (2 Chronicles 7:14; 19-22).