Praying About the Future of Roe v Wade
By: Frank Tunstall, D. Min.
More than 62,000,000 babies have been brutally killed in the womb since Roe v Wade became the law of the land in 1973. The U.S. Supreme Court will be giving another ruling on the subject in early June. Will you join with thousands who are praying for the evil practice to be declared illegal?
While thinking about the subject, I decided to take you, my readers, back into the Old Testament and show how those ancient countries handled abortion and did it in the name of worshipping their idol gods. It was demon worship then, and it still is today.
Solomon, the wisest king who ever ruled, showed how stupid he could be in his older years when he started giving foreign women land on a hill east of Jerusalem to build shrines for worshipping their idol gods (see 1 Kings11:9). Rehoboam was Solomon’s son and successor on the throne and his mother, Naamah, was an Ammonite who worshipped Molech, the god of the Ammonites. Molech worship included the hideous practice of child sacrifice. God soundly rebuked Solomon for his gross disobedience (1 Kings 11:9-13)
The Ammonites were descendants of Lot who escaped God’s judgment on Sodom when God rained fire and brimstone from heaven. Each of the girls conceived a child in incest with their father, and their descendants in time became the Ammonite and Moabite kingdoms in ancient Biblical history (see Genesis 19).
God had expressly commanded the Israelites through Moses that they were not to sacrifice children to Molech by making them pass through the fire, and any father who did it was to be stoned (Leviticus 20:1-5).
To Ammonites, children were not precious gifts from God (Genesis 4:1).
“The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel” (see 1 Kings 11:9-13). The wisest king who ever lived committed the sin that in time would lead to the destruction of Israel.
Their rationalizations were like these:
- Oh, it’s no big thing, I don’t like Naamah being over there, but Solomon has made his ruling and it is the law of the land.
- We are law-abiding people. It’s not my place to tear down the idols. Go ahead; give Naamah that little hill east of Jerusalem. Build her a little altar over there to worship her idol, Molech. It’s not going to hurt us!
- Allow the foreign women over there to worship their idols. What harm can they do over there on that hill east of Jerusalem?
- We ourselves will worship our God in our beautiful temple in Jerusalem.
- We are a great, wealthy, and powerful nation. We can contain the Naamah’s who worship on that little hill.
- All the nations around us fear our standing army. We have peace on every side.
- God must not be too angry because the economy is very good. Why gold is pouring into the kingdom to the point silver is a thing unaccounted for.
Roll the clock forward 250 years; time moved slowly in that era.
King Ahaz , who was in the lineage of King David, was on the throne of the kingdom of Judah. Ahaz was one of the most wicked kings in Judah’s history. He came to the throne at the age of twenty and ruled sixteen years.
“Ahaz burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable ways of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites” (2 Chronicles 28:3-4). Think about it. Judah’s king, a son of David and Abraham, practiced the idolatry of demon worship. He also saw a pagan altar in Damascus that he liked. Ahaz had a copy made and installed this altar in the place of the one Solomon had built for the temple of Jehovah God. He even shut the doors of the temple and placed altars at the street corners of the towns in Judah, as well as high places for worshiping false gods.
Isaiah was the prophet of God at the time. He visited Ahaz and gave him a thrilling prophecy. “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of my God also? Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give Him the name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:13-14).
Trust me, Ahaz. Believe me. A virgin will give the Messiah to the world!
With Isaiah’s visit, the Lord gave this wicked ruler, who had the blood of his own children on his hands, opportunity to make a new beginning. He was in the lineage of David. If he would repent and turn to Jehovah, no foreign ruler would be able to conquer him or his kingdom.
But Ahaz did not repent.
God was patient. The people of Judah had another 130 years to repent and turn their hearts to God before the Babylonian captivity, but their idolatry only grew worse. Sacrificing children continued to be part of it.
Naamah the idol worshiping Moabite, Rehoboam’s mother, became the queen mother. Surely she taught him as he grew up. When Rehoboam succeeded Solomon, Naamah the Moabite idol worshiper had become Judah’s queen mother!
Here a little sin and there a little, and the course was set for the downfall of the nation.
Soon there were people who wanted to see what was going on over there on that hill, and one by one Satan trapped them. Step by step over the years the trajectory was downward. More and more people were getting hooked, becoming idol worshipers.
Judah’s King Ahaz burned his own children to death in the name of Molech, his god. Yes, Molech had become his god.
Can you hear their screams?
In our day the count is over 60,000,000 babies killed in their mother’s wombs.
Will America wake up? Will this land of the free and home of the brave turn back to God?
Will you join me in prayer that the Supreme Court will do what is right?
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
