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.
~Song of Mary~ 