God sent bands of enemies against Judah according to his word because of all the evil Manasseh had committed against God “and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.” from 2 Kings 24:2-4
Last Friday morning the Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade as unconstitutional after 49 years as well as Planned Parenthood v Casey (1991). The words above concerning the evil of Manasseh and God’s judgement of him – his shedding of innocent blood – should be toward our nation (and may yet come). Yet, for now, God mercifully reminded us through our courts that we were originally a Christian thinking nation. We believed not just in the sanctity of human life, but we believed that we are image bearers. As image bearers we are called to live under the authority of God.
It has been sometime since I have sent out a blog post. The implications theologically and culturally of this ruling are vast and I have a deep desire for as many women as possible to consider them, which is why I chose to send this. God has provided a great mercy in moving the hearts of these American judges (Proverbs 21:1) toward this reversal. Rather than turning us over to the call of the culture that has made abortion almost normative, God turned the hearts of the majority of the United States Supreme Court to call abortion not a Constitutional right. It had never been one. It was just called that at the height of the 2nd wave of the feminist movement. The Lord mercifully turned the hearts of this Court back to the Christian moral roots of the writers of the Constitution. I believe this was a miracle from the hand of God.
Our culture’s current stance is against the authority of God. This is not random. This anti-authority stance comes in keeping with the pronounced judgement by God of Genesis 3:16: “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Roe v Wade was an awful result of women’s desire to grab a hold of something that God commanded against.
This is a gospel issue. Since the fall of man, we are simply not able to choose the authority of God’s words over and against our own desires without the regeneration of the Holy Spirit which is afforded us by the shed blood of Christ. This is the promise of the gospel given to us in Genesis 3:15. The gospel is God’s miracle of restoration to himself. His covering of the shameful acts that we have committed, not the least of which is our nation’s shedding of innocent blood.
God chose to show mercy in reversing Roe v Wade. I believe it was a miracle and an encouragement. A miracle because abortion is a war cry of the feminist movement which has risen as an evil result of Eve’s sin. An encouragement because it causes us to look back on the ethics and morals that our nation was built upon. Although there were a sizable number of leading men who were not Christians at the writing of the Constitution they held to Christian principles. Killing a baby to provide for one’s own desires would probably not have entered their minds. It would be akin to passing their children through the fire in sacrifice to the gods in pagan cultures, of which the Scripture above reminds us. It still is.
I would ask you to investigate the deeper workings of our current culture with its victimization mindset regarding sexual sin and transgenderism. Find out what this is about. Ask me. I would love to talk to you about this culture that we live in that shuns the truth about mankind as image bearers and rebels against the authority of God.