1,000 VIETNAMS

1,000 VIETNAMS

The whole issue of abortion serves as another illustration of God’s divine judgment. If we get still get upset over 58,000 killed in just one Vietnam, shouldn't we get more upset over 1,000 Vietnams? The deaths of 1,000 Vietnams would be about equal to over 52 million innocent babies who have been murdered in America since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, on January 22, 1973, that made abortion legal. Over 1,500,000 babies, about 30 Vietnams, have been killed every year for the last 37 years in this ongoing tragedy of epic proportions.

Some babies are still being murdered by a barbaric abortion procedure called "Partial-Birth Abortion." As a live, full term baby is about to be born, it is turned so that the feet are delivered first and then long scissors are thrust into the base of the skull while only the head remains inside the mother. A tube is inserted, the baby's brain is sucked out, and the head collapses to make delivery of the dead baby easier.

Laws outlawing this evil practice were vetoed time and time again by President Bill Clinton. These little babies were no longer just another part of their mother’s tissue. At the moment of conception, these babies were little people who had their own unique DNA. We need to repeat this again and again; At the moment of conception, these babies were little people who had their own unique DNA. They had a God-given, inalienable right to life, which began at conception, as a gift from the Lord.

Ruth 4:13
13. So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.

At conception, the mother’s relationship to that new little person who is growing inside her body must change. All mothers have a stewardship (management of another person’s property entrusted to their care by the Lord) responsibility to protect those tiny, new lives. God knew those little people before He created the heavens and the earth and His wrath burns white hot against those who take part in ending their precious little lives.

Jeremiah 1:5
5. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;

Psalm 127:3
3. Behold, children are a heritage (Hebrew - nachalah - an inheritance, an heirloom) from the Lord,

Psalm 139:13
13. For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.
14. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
15. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

The killing of a defenseless human being is pure evil. All governments, the good ones and the bad ones, are ordained by God and have the right and obligation to bear the sword against those who practice evil.

Romans 13:3
3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
4. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

Whenever we don't execute murderers, we build up blood that has not been paid for … unrequited blood. Every unanswered murder causes judgment to build up against ourselves and against our nation. The Lord demands a reckoning from animals who kill men and from men who kill men.

Genesis 9:5
5. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

In the Old Testament, killing was not only allowed by God but was instituted and required by God. So, the issue is not is it wrong to kill but what are the conditions in which it is wrong? In the King James Version of the Bible, the translation that most people are familiar with, the sixth commandment reads:

Exodus 20:13
13. Thou shalt not kill.

The original King James Version of the bible was translated in 1611. The New King James Version of the Bible is a modern translation that was finished in 1982. In the 1982 version, and all other modern versions of the Bible, the sixth commandment reads:

Exodus 20:13
13. "You shall not murder.

The word “kill” is an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word “thrtzch” which is correctly translated “murder.” There is no place for premeditated murder but Scripture is very clear that there is a just self-defense … a just retribution.

Exodus 22:2
2. "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.

Christians not only have the right to take a life but in some circumstances, they have an obligation to take a life. A Christian is instructed to turn the other check to avoid a fight but when a Christian’s life is threatened or he sees innocent people about to be murdered, he has the right to protect himself and an obligation to protect innocent life. That's the difference between the Christian and the criminal … the Christian protects innocent life, the criminal takes innocent life.

For three years, Jesus knew that Peter carried some form of knife. Jesus never told Peter or the rest of His disciples to not carry some form of knife as was the custom of all men. For most of his life, Peter probably used the same knife to repair fishing nets and clean fish. When Peter cut off the servant’s ear, he was actually trying to kill him. The Lord didn’t tell Peter to throw away his knife but merely told him to put it back into its sheath. After Jesus supernaturally reattached the servant’s ear, He reminded Peter that deadly force was only to be used in defense of innocent life. If Peter had killed the servant, the law would have required that he be executed because the servant was not threatening Jesus’ life.

Matthew 26:51
51. And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword (Greek - machairan - a knife, dagger, or short sword), struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52. But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

The world did not have police officers until the last several hundred years. For the previous thousands of years, if someone were murdered, God’s law required that a blood relative, an “avenger of blood,” be sent to avenge the death of a family member.

Numbers 35:16
16. ‘But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
17. And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18. Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
19. The avenger of blood himself shall (mandatory) put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall (mandatory) put him to death.

Can God bless America? God is no longer blessing America as He once did. God is removing His hand of blessing from America because our leaders will not execute murders and convicted perverts. There should be no life sentences or “death row.” Justice delayed is justice denied. One of the ways that the Lord can punish a nation is to have that nation destroyed by another nation. Another way to punish a nation is to spiritually blind the people of that nation so that they elect bad leaders for themselves … it’s the moral equivalent of you shooting yourself in your foot. This is a perfect example of Consequential Wrath … the wrath of sowing and reaping. That explains why we were saddled with a president like Bill Clinton who is a serial adulterer, an impeached and disbarred perjurer, and a baby killer. In actuality, we didn't deserve someone as good as Bill Clinton. We deserved someone much worse.

Because our society has continued to condone the killing of babies and acts of perversion, God has seen fit to punish America even further with the election of an inexperienced, unqualified, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, and pro-Marxism executive named Barack Obama in addition to the rest of the adulterers, perverts, liars, and thieves in congress. Before he was elected president, Barack Obama voted to allow sodomites and sodomettes to marry and voted four times against the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act.” Babies who were to have been aborted, but were still alive when delivered, should have been protected. Instead, the doctors and nurses did not provide care for those newborn little people but took them into a dirty laundry room where they were left alone to die without any further medical help. Videotape exists showing a doctor strangling a baby. Barack Obama is so radical that he believes in killing babies after they have been born … this is infanticide, pure and simple. Just like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama also voted numerous times to allow “Partial-Birth Abortion” killings to continue.

Is it still possible to reverse our punishment? Maybe … it all depends on the sincerity of our repentance. Only a very Merciful God could forgive us long after He should have permanently turned His back on us. Make sure that you don’t confuse mercy with weakness.

2 Chronicles 7:14
14. "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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.”









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