Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 32:31
But when envoys were sent from the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart.

Monday’s Reading: 2 Chronicles 33-36

Monday and a belated Happy Birthing Person’s Mother’s Day to those of you who know you’re a woman and have had a boy or a girl. Five years ago, that line wouldn’t have made any sense. But such is the absolute insanity that afflicts our present-day society. Just look at the blood-thirsty hordes of Leftists who are breaking federal and state laws in Virginia by protesting at the homes of Supreme Court Justices who seem to be on the verge of overturning the sacred permission granted in Roe v. Wade to snuff out the life of a child while in utero, eventually expanding to mean that a doctor could deliver the body of the child then slice open the back of its neck and cut the spinal cord to kill it.

The court is righting not just a misguided and over-reaching decision, but an illegal decision, since it is not within the court’s power to make law, which is what Roe is. It was a wrongfully decided decision whereby the court located a “right” buried in the “emanations” and “penumbrae” of the Constitution—even though you couldn’t actually make it out in the text—and the current court is now sending it back to the states where such a “right” can be decided by the various legislatures.

One of the reasons that the nation of Israel was eventually given over to their enemies (the Babylonians and the Assyrians) was child sacrifice—even though they had been warned of that temptation as they prepared to enter the land of Caanan.

“You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.” — Deuteronomy 12:31

“They even…” Even the Lord was appalled by the practices of the heathens inhabiting the land.

Yet, over the centuries of their kingdom, the Hebrew people took on the practices of the nations they had defeated and of those who lived around them, so that even Manasseh king of Judah “sacrificed his own son in the fire” (2 Kings 21:6), leading the people further into sin so that they “did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites” (2 Chronicles 33:9).

I was shocked the first time I read that. God’s chosen people, the Hebrews, ended up being even worse sinners than the nations they replaced.

I’m not one to equate the nation of Israel with the United States of America. We’re not God’s chosen people; those were the Hebrew people who are still the only nation so chosen. We were, like the Israelites, given a clean slate, as it were, and we were founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and practice.

However, God is true to Himself and his holiness, righteousness, and justice. If God hated child sacrifice as detestable in ancient Israel, He most certainly hates child sacrifice as detestable in our modern age. It does no good to protest that our modern practice is not a form of worship, as it certainly is. The object of our worship is sexual license and the sacrifice demanded by the god of that idol is the lives of the children.

That’s the deal: sexual freedom for the lives of the most innocent and vulnerable of human beings, those the adults are supposed to protect and care for. And our culture eagerly shook hands with the devil on it.

The result of that sin in Israel’s day was total rejection.

Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence. — 2 Kings 17:20

I’m no seer or prophet, so I don’t know what God is planning with the United States. All I know is that the practice of abortion is detestable in the sight of God.

There is still a remnant who pray and seek the Lord, but is it enough to keep God from giving us over to our enemies? It wasn’t in their day.

The coming Supreme Court reversal, if it holds true, will begin to set right an abomination that has soaked our soil with the blood of 63 million dead children over the last 50 years. Perhaps God will be merciful.