Christians all across America celebrate today as the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 6 to 3 decision has rescinded the 1973 Roe v Wade court ruling. This victory has been years in the making, years of activism, and years of fervent intercession. Since 1973 there have been over 60 million babies aborted (Source). Today even as many in
Christendom cheer, still yet others wail. One rejoices, yet still another grieves. For many this is far from over as a group of the populace calls for the codification of the right to abort. The war is far from over. Social media and news outlets today and likely for the unforeseeable future will be firing pot shots across the bow of the American people, ever attempting to draw support in the war ahead. And yet, God sees, God hears, and God responds providentially. Even if we do not see or understand that providential purpose. We claim does God not see, does He not hear our cries even as the Psalmist cries in Psalm 94 that God does not see, God does not understand. For all the prayers that have been prayed to end abortion since 1973, God has seen and God has heard and God does understand, His timing is perfect and His purposes cannot be thwarted.
Christendom cheer, still yet others wail. One rejoices, yet still another grieves. For many this is far from over as a group of the populace calls for the codification of the right to abort. The war is far from over. Social media and news outlets today and likely for the unforeseeable future will be firing pot shots across the bow of the American people, ever attempting to draw support in the war ahead. And yet, God sees, God hears, and God responds providentially. Even if we do not see or understand that providential purpose. We claim does God not see, does He not hear our cries even as the Psalmist cries in Psalm 94 that God does not see, God does not understand. For all the prayers that have been prayed to end abortion since 1973, God has seen and God has heard and God does understand, His timing is perfect and His purposes cannot be thwarted.In the Exodus account of the Israelite’s God told Moses “The cries of my people have been heard.” Yet they cried for 400 years. God saw, God heard and God had a purpose. God told Abram in Genesis 15 “Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly vthat your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go ato your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
God knew, God had a plan and a purpose.
49 years of the murder of innocence. 60 million+ babies. God saw, God heard, and God has a purpose, even when it makes absolutely no sense to us.
Approximately 300 years before King Josiah came, God sent a prophet to prophesy his coming and that he would tear down the idols of the nation of Israel and Judea. Josiah, the last righteous king before the exile of God’s people. Josiah’s reforms tore down the altars erected to the false god molech. The false god to whom the Israelite people had been sacrificing their children to. And he set them on fire. That fire burned outside Jerusalem until Christ came. The place called Gehenna, valley of Hinnom, hell. Jesus refer’s to it when when he tells the disciples to not fear man but rather fear God who has the power to cast them into hell (Luke 12:4-7) The word for “hell” (v. 5) in Greek, Gehenna (Heb. Ge-hinnom), signifies the valley south of Jerusalem that empties into the Kidron Valley, in which Judahites prior to King Josiah sacrificed their sons and daughters in burned offerings to Baal Molech on a “high place” called Topheth (Jer 7:32; 19:4–6; 32:34–35; 2 Kgs 16:3; 21:6). During King Josiah’s reform Topheth was dismantled, desecrated, and turned into a smoldering rubbish dump as a lurid reminder of wickedness, suffering, and shame (Jer 18:1–4; 19:2, 10–13; Neh 2:13; 2 Kgs 23:10). Gehenna was a graphic image of hell to Jesus’ audience—as near as a stone’s throw from the temple.1
What does this mean for us today? As many in the body of Christ have referenced that abortion is the modern equivalence to the sacrifice of children to molech, albeit today’s representation may more resemble the sacrifice of our children to the god’s of sexual immorality, the god’s of narcissistic self-centerness with the abdication and the vacating of responsibility for the consequences of sin, it may very well mimic the sacrifice of our children to molech. And yet the overturning of Roe V Wade may very well indicate the beginning of revival of the likes of King Josiah. We pray for that type of revival and reformation to sweep through the land today.
Today, June 25th 2022 our son, Josiah, named after King Josiah is getting married his mother and I pray for their future. We also pray that he and his new bride, and his generation will lead in the coming revival. Lord send revival today.