In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
- Leon Kass
It's nothing short of diabolical that after billions of clinical and contraceptive abortions, as well as tens of thousands of news articles and demonstrations, the average citizen, not to mention modern Christian, understands so little about this unseen holocaust. Sadly, much the same can be said about nearly all aspects of Churchianity. Too few take the time today to seriously study even such important topics as living faith and salvation, seeking God and prayer, repentance and sanctification, coming judgment and tribulation, much less eternal rewards and punishment.
Our Enemy has cunningly manipulated and taken advantage of this tragic situation. By using ignorance of the things of God, including the true impact of abortion, he's turned our apathy and Me-ism into the greatest weapons against the soul of humanity the world has ever known.
Depending on one's world view, the differences between faith and presumption can seem subtle. Up to and including profanity, i.e. treating the sacred as common. An all too frequent mistake Scripture records made time and time again by the church of every age. A peril modern Christianity is raising to an art form. One that none other than Moses, David, Isaiah, Jesus and Paul all warn of leading to thoughts and words, attitudes and lifestyles characterized by drawing near to God with our lips while failing to keep His most vital commands.
Presuming to glorify God while seriously grieving the Holy Spirit has always proved deadly. From Aaron's sons being struck dead for getting jiggy with the worship incense formula to Uzzah being struck dead for steadying the Ark of the Covenant being mishandled by King David.
Sometimes serious disobedience of a few or even one can have devastating effects on the whole people of God. During the exodus, the children of Israel had enjoyed numerous miraculous victories against their enemies. Fresh from there incredible triumph over Jericho their progress ground to a halt when they suffered their first defeat against the tiny people of Ai. Inquiring of the Lord, Joshua discovered the army of Israel had been defeated because of the sin of a single man, Achan.
Achan, against God's command, had kept some of the spoils of war from Jericho. Because of this one man's sin the people of God could not stand against their enemies. Compare the one sin of one man, Achan, against the millions who often identify themselves as Christians while aborting millions and billions of God's children!
Little wonder God has been, is and will continue to curse our very blessings as He no doubt prepares far greater judgments against His own Church if we do not quickly and fully repent of this sin. Remember Peter's fearful warning that "it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?" This is doubly true given the church has had it within it's power to end abortion in a single day, 365 days a year for nearly four decades by unifying and simply sending 1% of it's members to picnic in front of the entrance of abortion clinics.
The shocking New Testament story of Ananias and Sapphira provides a further dreadful warning. Here, a couple conspired to lie about the percentage of a large gift they were giving the Church. The money was not a debt or tithe but rather a free will donation. Note Peter's response. Rather than comforting Ananias that his sin was covered under the blood of Christ as he led him into repentance for lying or suggesting counseling as a remedy for clear issues of low self esteem (both of which seem perfectly normal), he pronounces a Holy Spirit death sentence on Ananias. Then, instead of sending a staffer to warn Sapphira to get her story straight, he asks leading questions that result in her being carried out dead by those who just removed the dead body of her Christian husband.
And this for merely holding back half their stated monetary gift, not murdering as many as half their children... God have mercy, Christ have mercy...
What Must I Do To Inherit Eternal Life?
There is no greater question before mankind in general, and the Church in particular, than that of what must I do to be saved? All other topics pale in comparison with attaining the eternal glories of Heaven rather than spending eternity in the Lake of Fire. Interestingly, Jesus is only directly asked this question a handful of times. His most in depth response to the topic of salvation is through His story of the "Good Samaritan" and is occasioned by this very question:
- "And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’” And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.” But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Then Jesus answered and said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.’ So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?” And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.” Luke 10
In the story of the Good Samaritan, Christ, the most authoritative expert on Salvation, gives His most in depth exegesis on this most vital of subjects. As such, a strong case could be made that these verses rank among, if not qualify as, the most significant passage in Scripture!
General Observations:
1. The context of this verse answers the Great Question of how to attain Heaven!
2. Here we have a description of an actual event and not a parable. Regardless of some extra Biblical headings for the verse. No parable introduction is given and local places are named as a real life chain of events unfold.
3. The victim was left "Half Dead". This is the minimum abortion rate when combining clinical and contraceptive abortion. Even among Christian Nations!
4. Both Priest and Levite, Scripturally recognized legitimate Jewish positions of spiritual authority (unlike Pharisees and Sadducees) were the only two identified religious characters in the story. Both fail the test as they "pass by on the other side." Given the benefit of the doubt, they may well have even been about religious ditties as their professions dictated.
5. We are not told why the Priest and Levite neglected to respond or what they were on their way to do. The inference by Jesus is that it doesn't matter.
6. We are not told the spiritual state of the Priest and Levite, prior to, during or after their encounter. Again the inference is that it doesn't matter. According to the context and the comments of Christ, regardless of their situation before encountering the man "half dead" they were OUT of the Kingdom and had LOST their Salvation as they passed by...
The "Good" Samaritan:
1. Had compassion on the victim. This does not suggest that the Priest and Levite were without compassion altogether. Rather, unlike the Samaritan, their compassion failed in this "life and death" instance.
2. Went to him. There are several possible reasons the Priest and Levite passed by on the other side. What ever these were, the Samaritan's compassion and understanding of the situation (physically and/or spiritually) moved him to approach.
3. Offered immediate and long term aid. While the oil and wine for the victim's wounds were helpful, should the Samaritan's aid had stopped there he too would have failed the test.
4. Brought the victim (a supposed stranger) to an inn (place of care) and attended him until the next morning. The inference is the Samaritan personally enters into the life and death struggle for this victim. All the while attending to his personal commitments.
5. Pays the innkeeper to continue care and then returns to his own business. He promises to check back on the condition of the victim and to see if more money is required. The Samaritan seems to be going "the extra mile" to assist an unknown person's needs. Telling Jesus uses this example to answer the question how to attain Heaven.
6. Jesus commands those who would "inherit eternal life" to "Go and do likewise."
Pro-Safe Travel and Anti-Robbery
Given the hidden Mega-Holocaust of Abortion, with it's never seen before death tolls even in Christian Nations, one wonders which of the short cast of characters the average church attending Christian most resembles?
The 6 Options Are:
1. The Thieves: Certainly those involved in aborting 1.5 billion babies globally and at least 50 million in America, have "Stolen" the lives of their victims. Not to mention the "Conscience of a Generation" participating in (commission) or allowing (omission) such slaughter.
2. The Victim: The most innocent victims never to have been.
3. The Priest: Walking by to likely do "good, needful religious things" failed the test and was Out of the Kingdom.
4. The Levite: Same as above.
5. The Samaritan: Proved his "Living Faith" thereby Jesus assures he received God's Conditional Salvation by Grace, becoming a perfect example to all wishing to "inherit eternal life."
6. The Innkeeper: Paid professional care giver. Unclear as to his/her spiritual state prior, during or after event.
Jesus clearly shows to what extent we must love our neighbors who are threatened by life or death situations if we hope to inherit salvation! Like Christ's treatment elsewhere of this important subject, such as in the parable of the "Pearl of Great Price" and the "Treasure Hid in a Field," the price of kingdom salvation is far from free if by free one means "absolutely nothing" or "next to nothing" by offering an hour here and there. The Good Samaritan gives ALL that is required of his time, talent and treasure to save the life of a presumed stranger and is so doing, according to Christ, his own soul.
When it comes to abortion, the greatest "life and death" scenario to face this or any generation, the response of literally 99.9% of those attending church today in 1st World Nations is far from that of the Good Samaritan. More like the Priest and Levite, Western Christianity hurries by comforting themselves that they are "pro-safe travel" and "anti-robbery." The nearly universal hardness of heart within the church is astonishing. Even among our most dedicated Christian leaders and servants the tiny percentage responding appropriately to the mega-holocaust of abortion drowning our nation and world in innocent blood remains essentially the same. More amazing given forty years of fallout such as cursed blessings, unanswered prayers and unacceptable worship.
Standing alone this passage would be enough to condemn us. When added to Jesus' other three most developed teaching on salivation, "The Rich Man and Lazarus," the parable of "The Sheep and the Goats" and "The Five Foolish Virgins" we in the West have every reason to act on Paul's advice and thoroughly examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith and to immediately begin working out our salvation with fear and trembling. Let us repent as never before, be reconciled to and filled with the Holy Spirit, and inoculate our world with the only true antidote to the pinnacle sin of mankind before we are swept away in the Judgment of God.
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UPDATE: Roe vs. Wade Overturned
To the joy of countless millions, on Friday 6/24/22 the landmark decision Hobbs vs. Jackson by the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe vs. Wade. Thus auspiciously ending 50 years of national tyranny against 60 million pre-born.
Or at lease throwing the decision to allow mothers to continue conspiring with physicians to murder the offspring within their wombs back to America's 50 individual states...
Nor does it address the more subtle yet sinful and deadly issue of contraceptive abortifacients, prevalent throughout society and modern Christianity.
While I now live in North East Texas, years ago I spent nearly 100 Saturdays at Central California clinics warning and imploring up to twenty girls a day to spare their babies. Via public parking constraints, forced to pass near I implored, “If God gives you the gift of a child don’t let anyone harm it” while handing them carefully explicit literature.
Often alone, sometimes there would be nearly a handful of us. On a good day, one or two mothers would listen and change their minds.
On many other occasions none at all.
As in Christ's end time parable of the Sheep and Goats, there I discovered Jesus in His smallest and most innocent form. Totally dependent for “food” and “drink,” “naked” and “in prison” in the very womb of His mother. There I watched as He was repeatedly carried, “Like a lamb to the slaughter,” into a medical clinic. A most solemn and sorrowful scenario with grave spiritual ramifications.
One repeated in Fresno alone over 50,000 times.
In over two years I don’t recall a single member of the clergy or even lay leader joining us. Though I understand the odds may have somewhat improved through the influence of 40 Days For Life.
Only a fraction of fraction of a percent of ordained ministers have served as a director of a leading pro-life organization. Far less still have had the honor and responsibility to act as a leading liaison to over a thousand churches in state wide pro-life political initiatives.
With well over thirty years in strategic Christian service, including more than a decade of pastoral ministry and pro-life activism, the author is privileged to belong to a select fraternity. This and other articles and books represent a culmination of this experience. Using such depth perception, this commentary is intended to introduce the true nature of the challenge presented by abortion. Particularly to modern Christianity.
During California’s 2005 Prop. 73 Parent’s Right To Know initiative I produced the pro-life political DVD entitled “Protect Me…Please” to be shown in hundreds, if not thousands of churches, prior to or on election Sunday. Groundbreaking, the 3 minute video featuring post abortive laments of teenage girls, made the front page of both the LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Prop. 73 failed by a narrow margin.
During the subsequent Prop. 85 initiative I achieved another milestone. For the first time, four leading Protestant state denominations, the Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God, Calvary Chapel and Foursquare, officially endorsed a political initiative. Again Parent’s Right to Know (PRK) was defeated.
Our third attempt in 2008 with Prop 4. affectionately dubbed “Sarah’s Law” failed as well. More than political, my involvement was spiritually motivated. After having spoken to thousands of Christians across denominational lines, it was clear that far less than 1% of either clergy or laity had the vaguest notion of the scale of abortion’s true threat to either the pre-born or the Church.
As a topical Biblical commentary, Quantum Christianity was designed in recognition of the need to examine and handle truth carefully and honestly. Scriptural and otherwise. The nationalized legalization of clinical abortion, and its apparent overruling, presents a perfect case in point.
A faithful handling of the Old and New Testament requires would be students and adherents to develop spiritual discernment on a variety of subjects crucial to Biblical Christianity. The lack of which has produced hundreds of differing denominations espousing various Christs and versions of the gospel. Tragically, many of the hopeful insights inherent in Christ's command to "Judge with righteous judgment" continue to go largely unrealized within modern Christianity.
Such is certainly the case when considering the American church's 50 year track record in regards to an appropriate response to abortion. Or more accurately, the lack thereof. Both clinically and contraceptively.
Bear in mind that church attending Christians could have ended abortion in a single day, 365 days a year, for 50 years, by simply sending 1% of our congregations to have family friendly picnics in front of every abortion clinic in America. With thousands peacefully blocking entrances, even should there be numerous arrests, the sheer numbers involved would shut down all abortuaries in a single day. With 99% more now authentically pro-life Christians waiting for a chance to join cause.
Yet nothing could be further from the case. Then or now.
Nor have we seriously addressed the widespread use of abortifacient contraception throughout Christendom. A topic that many, if not most, churches and even pro-life organizations know or speak little about. Most often chemical in nature, early term abortions are a result of various forms of birth control and other devices. Abortions of this kind happen before the mother is aware of her pregnancy. The exact numbers are unknown. Some estimates suggest the daily total of these types of abortions may be surprising large. In the U.S. alone perhaps between 834,000 to over 4,000,000 per year (Dr. Bobmir Kuhar, Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives Pg 27.) Lower estimates range around 100,000 to over 1,500,000 annually (Randy Alcorn: Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? How Often Does the Pill Cause Abortions?)
Thus the compelling need to rethink Jesus' directive to “Judge with righteous judgment” should be abundantly evident.
But is it? Throughout the Hobbs vs. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court celebratory posts and podcasts, sermons and ceremonies, is there any awareness of the reality of the seriousness our situation? Or brokenhearted repentance in light of the depth of our failures?
Are any of today's joyful messages cognizant of the Bible's repeated warning that God is not mocked.
- “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap. Galatians 6:7 AMP
- For they sow the wind [in evil] And they reap the whirlwind [in disaster]. Hosea 8:7 AMP
Is our revelry tempered with the sobering fact that while abortion is currently the pinnacle sin of mankind, it's only the tip of the iceberg? One floating in a Water World of immorality unleashed by the continual and increasing tsunami of the 60's sexual revolution redefining and/or eliminating traditional marriage and family.
These devilish sociopolitical engineering undoubtedly ushered in such modern woes as career felon George Floyd's sainthood and efforts to undermine criminal justice. Antifa and BLM riots and violence. CRT and orchestrated racial tensions. C19's plandemic and goal overreach. Medical interference and harmful vaccines. Woke agenda and transgenderism. Biden's malevolent war on Ukraine and America's economy. All part of the Great Reset.
And these are just the highlights. All coordinated and choreographed by the clearly visible and menacing Iron Triangle of liberal global politics, media and corporations.
Yet even now, modern Christianity, up to and including the vast majority of Prophetic Christians, refuses to discern the clearly repeated handwriting on the wall. And having done so, to enter the crucible of James 4's Prayer of Anguish in hopes of James 5's reconciliation to, and empowerment by, God.
Particularly the Person of the Holy Spirit, Whom we continue to annoy and grieve, if not profane and blaspheme.
Instead, across America, Laodicea is masquerading as Philadelphia. Lauding the Supreme Court for Hobbs vs. Jackson while the highest court in the land continues to sidestep or support all the devastating atrocities mentioned above. Many of which modern Christianity has yet to Scripturally repent of, up to and including sins of clinical and/or contraceptive abortion. In regards to commission and/or omission.
Mankind’s current pinnacle sin of abortion is spiritually quantum in a variety of ways. For example, it’s hardly just like any other sin. Even so, as with any other sin, it does require the event and process of genuine repentance. Like faith itself, honest and heartfelt repentance encompasses our entire mind, heart and will. As required by the previously mentioned passage in 2 Chronicles 7:14’s perfect formula for repentance.
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