The Blood Cries Out

Who is responsible - who will be held accountable? In both the old and the new testaments God has a lot to say about the sanctity of human life - born and unborn, that He has always considered the taking of innocent life an abomination. In the Old Testament in MALACHI 3:6 God say’s for I am the Lord, I change not. In the New Testament HEBREWS 13:8 says, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

II TIMOTHY 3:16 All ure is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. MATTHEW 5:17, Jesus said, "Think not that I have come to destroy the law, or the prophets, I’m come not to destroy, but to fulfill."

THE FIRST QUESTION TO ASK IS: DO WE, AS HUMAN BEINGS, BELONG TO OURSELVES, OR TO GOD?

GENESIS 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.

PSALM 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.

ISAIAH 44:24: Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I'm the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.

ECCLESIASTES 11:5; As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. DEUTERONOMY 32:39 See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no God with me: I kill, and I make alive: I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. ACTS 17:25 & 28 ...He giveth to all life and breath and ...in Him we live, and move, and have our being. JOHN 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him: And without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life: and the life was the light of men.

IN THE BIBLE WERE CHILDREN A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

DEUTERONOMY 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing & cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. PSALM 127:3; Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

GENESIS 1:22; God blessed Adam and Eve and told them to be fruitful and multiply.

GENESIS 9:1; And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

HOSEA 9:14; As punishment for Israel's sin, God gave the women miscarrying wombs and dry breasts.

EXODUS 23:26 God promised His people when they followed His ways that they would not have the curse of being barren.

GENESIS 30: 1-2 Rachel was barren and said give me children or else I die. Jacob, her husband, asked what he could do, because God withheld from her the fruit of her womb.

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IS THIS HUMAN LIFE AND DOES GOD SEE UNBORN CHILDREN THE SAME AS BORN CHILDREN?

Luke was a physician. In the GOSPEL OF LUKE, the Greek word "brephos" (1) was used interchangeably for prenatal and postnatal babies. The same word was used to describe John the Baptist in Elizabeth's womb in LUKE 1:41 & 44, and then to describe the infants that were brought to Jesus to be touched by him in LUKE 18:15-17 This Greek word means, "an unborn child, embryo, fetus, and a newborn child, an infant or babe". Other ures for brephos: LUKE 2:12 & 16, ACTS 7:19, II TIMOTHY 3:15, and I PETER 2:2. There is no distinction in the bible for children - born or unborn.

The bible says that God is no respecter of persons. Many of the men of the bible, as well as Jesus Christ, either spoke of themselves before birth or were spoken of by others. This shows that God knows each of us in the womb, and that personhood, or ensoulment begins in the womb. LUKE 12:7 shows us that even the very hairs on our head are all numbered.

JEREMIAH 1:5 God says to Jeremiah: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."

ISAIAH 49 Isaiah said, "The Lord hath called me from the womb: from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name."

In JOB 31:15: Job spoke of himself and his manservant saying: "Did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb?"

In GENESIS 25 we have the account of Rebecca being pregnant with Esau and Jacob. In verses 22 and 23, we are told: And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, "two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels..."

Paul in GALATIANS 1:15 said that God separated him from his mother’s womb.

In LUKE 1:15 We are told that John the Baptist would be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mothers womb. In LUKE 1:31, the angel told Mary that she would conceive a son whom she shall name JESUS. LUKE 1:39, tells us Mary made haste to her cousin Elizabeth’s house to share the good news with her. Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy with John the Baptist, and Mary could not have been more than a few weeks pregnant with Jesus, but when Mary called out to Elizabeth when she entered her house, John the Baptist leaped with joy in Elizabeth’s womb because he already recognized the embryo Jesus.

In PSALM 139:13, David speaks of God forming him in secret and knowing his body as it was being fashioned in secret. David said, "For thou has possessed my reigns: thou has covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." JOB 10:8-12, Job speaks of God making him in the womb, knowing him personally, and granting him life and favor.

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IT’S OBVIOUS THAT LIFE BEGINS IN THE WOMB. BUT, WHAT ABOUT THE SOUL OR SPIRIT IN THE WOMB?

GENESIS 2:7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. When God created Adam and breathed life into him, this began the life cycle for all mankind. The name ADAM means "mankind". We have to remember that the unborn breathe amniotic fluid in the womb. But, with the absence of air, when they cry, they can’t be heard. This information and much more can be found in many medical resource materials and books.

JAMES 2:26 : For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Once you have substance, you have a spirit. We know that all of us are body, soul and spirit.

BUT, WE MUST NEXT ASK, IS KILLING THE UNBORN THE SAME AS KILLING THE BORN - IS ABORTION MURDER?

Murder is defined in several dictionaries as:

"The intentional killing of one human being by another, and, to kill or slaughter."

In the Old Testament Hebrew and the New Testament Greek, murder was described: To take an innocent life, to dash to pieces, to slay or slaughter.

EXODUS 20:13, in the ten commandments of God, we usually quote, "Thou shalt not kill, but in the original Hebrew and Greek God said, "Thou shall do no murder". That is why in Exodus 20:13, God tells us not to murder but then the very next chapter EXODUS 21:12 & 14, God tells us to use capital punishment when the laws were given. Also, going back to GENESIS 9:6, God commanded Noah after the flood, Whoso sheddeth a man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man. This is capital punishment for taking an innocent human life. There is a vast difference biblically between shedding innocent blood and guilty murderers or manslayers being put to death. Looking at thou shall do no murder...There were nine Hebrew words that meant kill, but only one, that meant murder - Ratsach - and that is the word used in the ten commandments. In the New Testament there were five Greek words that meant kill and only one Greek word that meant murder - phoneus (phonevo). This is always the word that Jesus or His disciples used when referring to the Ten Commandments.(4).

GOD COMMANDS US CONTINUALLY NOT TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD.

At thirty days - one month after conception, the unborn child already has blood circulating in his or her veins. LEVITICUS 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. In PROVERBS 6:17 among the things that God hates ...are hands that shed innocent blood. EXODUS 23:7: The innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.

DEUTERONOMY 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward (gets paid), to slay an innocent person. JEREMIAH 7:6 and 22:3: God warned Jeremiah not to shed innocent blood in that place. PSALM 10:8 God said the wicked murders the innocent in the secret places. ISAIAH 59:7 They make haste to shed innocent blood.

JONAH 1:14 When Jonah told the men in the ship to throw him overboard, the men feared God and it says that they begged God not to lay upon them innocent blood - they knew God was an avenger of innocent blood.

GENESIS 4:9-10 In the account of Cain and Abel, when Cain killed his brother and God inquired of Cain: "Where is Abel, thy brother? What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood(s) crieth unto me from the ground." He told Cain for this he was cursed from the earth, which had opened its mouth to receive his brother’s blood from his hand. The brother’s blood(s) means not only was Abel’s blood crying out to God, but also every generation that would be denied life through Abel. We have not only murdered more than forty million (40,000,000), unborn children, but the blood of all their would-be descendants is crying out to God.

In PSALM 106:37-42 The Israelites were sacrificing their sons and their daughters unto devils, and the bible says shedding innocent blood, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan - and the land was polluted with blood. God said his wrath was kindled against his people so that he abhorred his own inheritance. As punishment, God gave them into the hand of the heathen, and they that hated them ruled over them.

What is this innocent blood doing to our land? MICAH 3:1-4 ... Is it not for you to know justice? Who hate good and love evil: Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones: Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces like meat for the pot, like flesh in the caldron. Then they will cry to the Lord, but He will not hear them: He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.

Most abortion clinics chop up the baby’s bodies and put them down heavy-duty garbage disposals or down toilets.

(5) This re enters our water supply in a few hours in our cities. We are drinking the innocent blood after it has been reprocessed. JOEL 3:19 God says: Egypt shall be desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. NUMBERS 35:3 God tells the people: Ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the land, which ye shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

God says in EXODUS 21:22 If men fight and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But, if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

I believe this shows that even if the injury or death is unintentional, God said it was worthy of punishment up to and including death--for killing the mother or the baby. How much more serious would God see this crime if the killing were intentional? The acts of those performing, as well as those having the abortions, have spilled innocent blood, leaving our land polluted according to the word of God.

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HOW DOES GOD SEE THE HANDICAPPED? ARE THEIR LIVES OF LESS VALUE OR ARE THEY ACCIDENTS AND SHOULD BE KILLED?

EXODUS 4:10-11 Moses complained to God when God called him to go speak to Pharaoh, Moses said unto the Lord that he was not eloquent and that he was slow of speech and had a slow tongue. God answered him by saying, Who hath made man’s mouth? Or who maketh the dumb or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord?

JOHN 9: 2-3 When Jesus walked by a blind man, his disciples asked him, who sinned, him or his parents that he was born blind? Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

LUKE 14: 13-14 Jesus said, "But when thou maketh a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; and thou shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."

I SAMUEL 16:7 We are told that the Lord doesn’t see us as man does, that man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.

ISAIAH 45:9-12 The Lord said Woe to him who strives with his maker. We are told that God forms the perfect and the imperfect in our world.

PSALM 82:3-4 tells us: Defend the poor and fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy, deliver the poor and needy, rid them out of the hands of the wicked.

I THESSALONIANS 5:14 Paul exhorted us to comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Paul said in ACTS 20:35 I have showed you all things, how that so laboring, ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.

WHAT ABOUT A CHILD CONCEIVED FROM RAPE OR INCEST?

The "hard cases" for abortion: rape, incest, the child may be handicapped, or the mother’s life is in danger, make up only 1 to 3% of all abortions performed in our country. (6). I believe DEUTERONOMY 24:16 could speak to the rare cases of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin. What we are saying if we support these reasons for abortion is that the innocent child should be cruelly killed for the sin of his or her father. Is this just? Also, God teaches us that with Him, any event in our lives can be turned around to His glory. Ethel Waters, who sang for years with the Billy Graham Crusades, was the child of a rape pregnancy. Ethel’s mother was only twelve years old when she was raped. Before her mother died, she told Ethel, You’ve been a blessing to me. (7) We are not to solve our social problems by killing the innocent.

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WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVE HAD ABORTIONS?
CAN THEIR SIN BE FORGIVEN?

LUKE 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. ROMANS 3:10 There is none righteous, no, not one. ROMANS 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. First we have to realize when we sin; it is first and foremost God that we sin against. PSALM 51:4 David said, Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. GENESIS 39:9 Joseph, when he was being asked to commit adultery with Potiphar's wife said...How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? In MARK 1:4 we are told, John did baptize in the wilderness, and preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. In JOB 42:6 Job said wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes, other ures relating to repentance are: ACTS 2:38,5:31, 17:30, & 26:20.

PROVERBS 28:13 tells us: He that covers his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy. I JOHN 1:9 Paul said, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I TIMOTHY 1:13 Paul said, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ISAIAH 1:18 we are told, Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool. ROMANS 8:1 there is therefore now, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ROMANS 2:4 We are told that the goodness of God leads us to repentance. In II PETER 3:9, we are told that God is longsuffering toward us not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. In PSALM 51:16-17 When Nathan the prophet confronted David with his sin, David said that God does not desire sacrifice; or He would He give it: that He does not delight in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart. PSALM 56:8 God says that He has our tears in a bottle and he has them written in a book. In PSALM 103 We are told that God forgives all our sins, he is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide; neither will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities (sins). For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. So far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him. For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him. ISAIAH 43:25 says, I even I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. It has been said that the church is the only place where they shoot their wounded. God tells us to hate the sin, but to love the sinner. We have to remember who our enemy is. Jesus tells us in JOHN 10:10 The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I’m come that the might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED SOMEONE ELSE TO HAVE AN ABORTION?

I have had innocent blood on my hands. I realized my own responsibility for "helping" a friend, Meg, get an abortion in 1965. I thought I was helping her when she came to me scared and panic-stricken. Another friend of mine had a sister who had had two abortions by a doctor in St. Louis. Planned Parenthood admits that before abortion was legal, 90% of illegal abortions were performed by doctors anyway. (8). Meg later married and found she was sterile. I have to live with the pain of knowing I helped her kill the only child she would ever have. God revealed to me my sin in helping her to shed innocent blood. He revealed to me that not only did I sin against Meg and her unborn child, but, that I had sinned first and foremost against Him. When I repented to God for my part in this sin, and I knew He had forgiven me, it still took many years for me to be able to forgive myself.

WILL THESE BABIES WHO DIED BE IN HEAVEN?

In the account of David and Bath Sheba in II SAMUEL 12, David was a man after God’s own heart, but he committed adultery with Bath Sheba and to hide his sin, he had her husband, Uriah killed. God said as punishment the baby would die. But, after the baby died, David said: Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him but he shall not return to me.

WHAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN A NATION THAT HAS TURNED AWAY FROM GOD?

What is holding God’s judgment from our country? How long can this slaughter continue? In the account of Sodom and Gomorrah, God was willing to spare the city if only ten righteous could be found. God tells us that His mercies are new every morning. LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23. Let me first say that the bible speaks of the righteous and the unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly, the just and the unjust. Our nation is made up of all of these peoples.PSALM 9:17 warns us that the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. JUDGES 21:25 tells us in those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. PROVERBS 24:11-12 tells us, rescue those that are unjustly sentenced to death, don’t stand back and let them die. Don’t try to disclaim responsibility by saying you didn’t know about it, for God, who knows all hearts, knows yours, and He knows that you knew, and He will reward every one according to his deeds. PROVERBS 21:13 warns us that, whosoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he shall also cry himself, but shall not be heard. God says that if we don’t speak up to the injustice done to others, when our turn comes, He won’t hear us. MATTHEW 18:10 Jesus said, "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father, which is in heaven." PROVERBS 15:3 Tells us: The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. PSALMS 94:20-23 Could easily describe the United States Supreme Court which...devised evil by law and gathered themselves together against the righteous and condemned innocent blood. Jesus said in MATTHEW 25:40 Insomuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. In EZEKIEL 9 God was going to pass judgment on Jerusalem because of the abominations that had been done in that city so he ordered an angel to go through the city marking only the foreheads of the people who had sighed and cried over the abominations done there.

The others with the angel were told to go through the city and kill everyone who did not have the mark. God told them to begin at His sanctuary. The church? Have you sighed and cried over the abominations that are now rampant in America? We have abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and the list is long. We need to pray and work for godly leaders to be placed in authority over us. EZEKIEL 22 God told Ezekiel the time had come to judge the city because of the innocent blood that was in it, for God could find no righteous man to stand in the gap for the nation. PROVERBS 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. PROVERBS 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

Thomas Jefferson said, "The care of human life and happiness and not its destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." He also said, "I tremble for the future of my country when I’m reminded that God is just. And that His justice will not sleep forever." Abraham Lincoln said, "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Dante’s Divine Comedy: "The hottest parts of Hell are reserved for those people, who in times of moral crisis remain neutral." Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing". EPHESIANS 6 tells us we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

II CHRONICLES 7:14 God tells His people: 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.

We need a praying, vibrant, God-fearing church in America. Our country needs to repent as a people and turn back to what made our country great - a belief in the bible as God’s infallible word to us. God says He will heal our country, if His people turn back to Him in true repentance. We as a nation deserve God’s judgment, but we need His mercy because of our grievous sins as a people. I believe the silence is deafening in our pulpits and in our local churches - all of which makes up the body of Christ. Who will God hold responsible.

THE BLOOD CRIES OUT!

author: Peggy Bull, Missouri Right To Life Convention, Jefferson City, Missouri, March 3, 2001
References:

Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon, pg. 105.

Webster’s New School & Office Dictionary.

Harper’s Bible Dictionary. 1961 page 466.

Dr. D. James Kennedy, Murder, He Wrote, cassette.

Carol Everett, Blood Money, pages 84 & 126.

Guttmacher Statistics, from "Facts In Brief", 1995 rape and incest abortions 1% of all abortions each year.

Ethel Waters; His Eye Is On The Sparrow.

Mary Calderone, former President of Planned Parenthood: Illegal Abortion as A Public Health Problem.. American Journal of Health, volume 50, July 1960.

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