The Spiritual Consequences of Abortion

"They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds" (Psalm 106:36-39). 

Mothers, and sometimes fathers, are told that they will experience greater happiness and prosperity by killing their preborn babies through abortion. Whether it is because of poverty or fetal anomalies, or even mere convenience, a child will supposedly bring them down, while killing the child will bring them up. 

It is all a lie. 

Ancient Israel tried the same thing, sacrificing their own children to pagan deities, Moloch and Baal, and expecting greater prosperity in response. However, the only thing they found was judgment from the real God, the triune God of the Bible, who judged them and their land, polluted by the blood of innocents exterminated by their own parents. 

Even those who encouraged them, whether government officials or apostate religious leaders, are condemned by Scripture: "I will make a stormy wind break out in My wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in My anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end... Thus will I spend My wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord God... Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life... I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord" (Ezekiel 13:13, 15-16, 22). 

Abortion: "Christian" America's Covenant with Death

In his book Abortion Violation, author Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas cites Proverbs 8:36, in which the personification of Wisdom says, "All who hate me love death." In application, Thomas tells us, "[T]he rejection of God's wisdom leads selfish, autonomous men to love and embrace death. In the case of abortion, it is the death of innocent children made in the image of God" (p. 22). 

In the Bible, god calls this mentality a covenant with death. This phrase is found twice in Isaiah 28, in which God is castigating Israel for her adultery with pagan deities, for which she is to be judged. God quotes a personification of the whole people: "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter" (Isaiah 28:15). The people of Israel had convinced themselves that their game of balancing a profession of faith to Jehovah with their secret whoring with demons would protect them from the judgment of Jehovah, the only true God, who had made them a people. 

However, the prophet tells them God's response to their confidence: "Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it. As often as it passes through, it will take you; for morning by morning, it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message... Now, therefore, do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land" (Isaiah 28:18-19, 22). 

America is playing this game. She is playing the whore, both literally and in the sense that Israel did. Sexual immorality is rampant, even among professing Christians. Yet abortion enables the immoral to practice their sensuality without consequences... or so they believe. I think we see the signs already of God's judgment on this imagined sleight of hand. The sacrifice of the innocent will never save the guilty, no matter what "freedom of choice" men may imagine that they have. 

Abortion as a Cover for Sexual Promiscuity

"Draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman. Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit, you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?" -Isaiah 57:3-5. 

Sometimes the Scriptures are quite colorful in their descriptions of human beings. This is one of those times. The prophet rebukes men and women involved in sexual promiscuity. But I want to point especially to the way such men and women try to avoid the consequences of their behavior: by the slaughter of their own children. 

Are we not seeing this in our culture? It has actually been said that the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the abomination of Roe v. Wade that it spells the doom of "hook-up culture." Oh, the horror! But is that not an admission of the reason for so many abortions? The people involved want to satisfy their lusts without consequences, even to the point of murdering their own children! Not because of poverty or abusive partners, but just to avoid the consequences of their own decisions. 

Isaiah: The Prophet of Monotheism

"Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last; besides Me, there is no god. Who is like Me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before Me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from old and declared it? And you are My witnesses! Is there a god besides Me? There is no rock; I know not any'" (Isaiah 44:6-8). 

The Bible strongly contrasts the triune God who truly lives with all of the false deities that men have created. This passage goes on to ridicule the pagan, who uses half of a piece of wood to bake his bread, and the other half to carve into an idol. Then this creation of his own the pagan then asks for help in his life. And I think any rational man must agree with that assessment of paganism. As the Bible describes it, worshiping the creature in place of the Creator (Romans 1:25). 

And this is no accident, but is, rather, a part of God's plan: "They know not, nor do they discern, for He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot understand" (Isaiah 44:18; compare 45:15 and Matthew 13:11). For men to be blinded in unbelief is part of God's determination in prehistory. It is the reprobate side of God's sovereign grace. 

The prophet continues: "I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides Me, there is no god" (Isaiah 45:5), and "There is no other god besides Me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides Me" (verses 21-22). 

God's Judgment on Unjust Rulers

"Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, 

And the writers who keep writing oppression."

-Isaiah 10:1 

As a lover of God's Law, I often hear remarks saying that, since we are "under grace, not under law" (a misreading of Romans 6:14), the civil magistrate is under no obligation to the word of God in the execution of his office. In fact, any source of law except for the Bible is preferred, including the humanistic law under which we Americans are forced to live. 

Sometimes the problem is a belief that the Law ended with the crucifixion of Jesus. That is just bad hermeneutics. Other times, the person - and remember that I am speaking of professing Christians - will point to something in that Law and claim that it would be horrible to live by such a standard today. And they say that, completely oblivious to the implied blasphemy, as if God were unjust in His moral standards!  

Yet we have the verse above, Isaiah 10:1, in which God calls the actions of some magistrates "iniquitous." By what standard is an action iniquitous? Is the law of the state to be judged by its own standards? Surely such circularity would always confirm the morality of that law. Of course not! It must be judged by the objective standards of God. And where do we find those standards? In His law, recorded for us in the Bible.