Category: Morality

Life [from God] Begins in the Womb, with Conception: Abortion is Another Manifestation of the Abomination of Desolation and the Great Tribulation

God changed Abram and Sarai’s names just at the time that He prepared them to conceive the heir to His everlasting covenant.  He changed their names to Abraham, and Sarah.  H is the letter ‘Hey’ in the Hebrew alphabet.  It means the ‘outbreathing of the Holy Spirit’, and its sound is made by breathing out.  We know that God breathed [Genesis 1: 2-3] all creation into being, so it is just a reaffirmation here to us in scripture that His breath going into Abram and Sarai is what made them parents.

“…God talked with him, saying:  ‘As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.  No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham…Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan….'” [referring with certainty here to the future Isaac, not Ishmael, his son by Hagar]

“Then God said to Abraham, ‘As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.  And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her [again!], and she shall be a mother of nations….'”  ~Genesis 17:3-5, 8, 15-16

Sarah got double blessings!  God blessed her with a son, then he blessed her again by blessing her son.

As God’s breath made a baby within Sarah, it changed her to be a completed woman, represented by the letter hey at the end of the sentence, and because the letter hey at the end of a name makes it feminine.  Sarai had been somewhat lacking before, lacking the completeness of womanhood due to being barren.

It is God who gives the breath of life into us to create us.  And it is when that breath comes into us, that a woman and a man become parents to a living child, created from the living breath of God.  It isn’t when Isaac was born that God changed Abram’s and Sarai’s name, it was at or just before conception–He knew He was going to make them conceive Isaac, therefore the conception was as good as done.

Let no man or woman say that the fetus is not living, or that life does not count until birth.  This is blasphemy to God.  It is His power alone to give–and take–life.  Anything else is murder.

In the case of a pregnancy causing the mother to perish, there is scripture which speaks to this, though it is different that rabbinic literature available.  In this case, God allows the young to be taken, that the mother should live.  It is Deuteronomy 22, verses 6 and 7:  “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.” 

Ancient men and women considered animals and eggs as food for themselves.  They did not have the luxury we have today of going to the grocery store to restock their larder, nor the luxury to have a multivariate diet.  When they happened upon a bird in a nest full of eggs it was like finding a small treasure!  It would be normal for an unGodly person to greedily take as much as he could, the mother and the eggs.  However, God understands that the mother’s life is more valuable, when young are still in the nest as eggs, or in the womb as a fetus.  Therefore, He says to take only the young and leave the mother alone.  In this way, the mother can make more young and life can continue.  Otherwise, both would perish and life might not continue.

This is the way it is with abortion too.  Only if the mother is in danger of perishing, shall the young be taken, so that she may live and produce more young.  In every other case, it is murderous to take the young.

Interestingly, this is what will happen in the Great Tribulation; mothers and fathers will eat their own young, and all except God’s chosen ones will perish.

Abortion is therefore a manifestation of the abomination of desolation coming in the Great Tribulation, which is what many so-called ‘first world’ countries are already practicing.

When We Make Men God

Originally posted on October 3, 3013

We lose our way~

God is Tolerant

Originally posted on August 18, 2013

I am sitting in a booth at the annual fair today for the birth center of which I am a participant.  The booth next to me is for Falun Dafa, a Chinese philosophy that involves Godless peace and exercises (like tai chi).

I just heard a man say he was attracted to it because he was raised as a Christian but he wanted something ‘more tolerant.’

More tolerant than God?

The thing is, that God is sovereign and makes the rules. We follow them and He graces us with abundance.  There is no negotiating–God simply knows what is best for us and gives us His Laws and commandments to follow.  God has a plan for each of our lives and we can choose to follow it completely, not at all, or anything in between.  He gives us the free will to do this!  What is not tolerant about that??

I guess he is talking about Christians who do not validate people’s choices in their own life, but judge them according to God’s Law and Word.  Thing is, as believers, we are commanded to rebuke our brethren when we see them committing sin, and are in a special role whereby we can educate people and point them in the right direction.  However, as Jesus taught, we become hypocrites when we go beyond that and judge each other, and allow our notions to put distance between us and our neighbor, whom we should always love, no matter what.  One of the Great Commandments is to love your neighbor as yourself.  It doesn’t say to love them with conditions.  Unless someone harms others, they should not be judged, and only then by the proper adjudicator or Priest.  And God, as we know, is the Ultimate Judge, and is perfectly capable and able to punish and reward His flock.

If God allows them to choose their path, who are we to judge them?  I made all kinds of Godless choices and I have reaped the consequences of them.  No one rebuked me at the time, but even if they had, it is doubtful I would have listened.  It is only by the grace of God that I can hear Him now.  Once you are born again (and I literally was–I underwent a psychophysiological rebirth)–you want to share the Good news with everyone!

Personally, I believe if our choices do not line up with God’s Law and divine will for us, we are not going to live up to our fullest potential.  But that is also our choice!  We have a gracious God that allows us much wiggle room (as long as we do not break the greatest commandments), even when He knows we are hurting ourselves.  That is what I call tolerant.