In October of this year, we heard the shocking news that Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel had killed 40 babies (beheading some). It was a terrible atrocity. Political leaders from around the world condemned this evil done by the terrorists.
The president of the US, Joe Biden, said, “This was an act of sheer evil. More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered—not just killed, slaughtered—in Israel. Among them, at least 14 American citizens killed. Parents butchered [while] using their bodies to try to protect their children. Stomach-turning reports of being—babies being killed. Entire families slain.” President Biden also said, “It’s abhorrent. . . . The loss of innocent life is heartbreaking. . . . This is what they mean by a ‘human tragedy’—an atrocity on an appalling scale. . . . These atrocities have been sickening.”
Dare I say it? The president is a hypocrite. Now, I do agree with all the quotes above! But here’s what is also sickening: President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, along with many other political leaders in this nation, are insistent on making it legal to kill babies in the womb by abortion. Abortion is also an atrocity—an atrocity of horrible proportions.
Consider this: around one million babies—human beings made in the image of God—are murdered in their mothers’ wombs each year in the US (not counting those aborted at home, etc., using various drugs). Abortion is a shocking holocaust.
We read of shocking slaughters of babies down through the ages. At the time of the exodus, Pharaoh ordered the killing of young Israelite children. And when King Herod heard Jesus was born, he also ordered the killing of young children. Many past cultures practiced child sacrifice.
We are appalled at all these atrocities. And remember, God hates “hands that shed innocent blood” (Proverbs 6:17).
But there was one baby whose death we celebrate. God’s Son stepped into history two thousand years ago as the babe in a manger, to be the God-man, Jesus—so he could later die on a cross to save us from our sins. But he didn’t stay dead. He rose from the dead, conquering death and the devil, and offers the free gift of salvation to those who will receive it.
2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV – “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
Romans 10:9 KJV – “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
We mourn for those babies slaughtered by evil terrorists and abortionists. But we rejoice at the death of the one who became a baby born of a virgin to rescue us from the consequence of our sin so those who receive the gift of salvation can spend eternity with our Creator and Savior in heaven.
Isaiah 9:6 KJV – “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
