Recently, a 66-year-old man in my state was investigated upon reports of his being a pedophile. According to the report of his arrest, he had computer files taken from his online perusing of the Internet involving child porn. At the center of his wicked fetish, the report says, was sado-sexual activity. For his crime, upon his pleading guilty to the charges, he was given 40 years of imprisonment –if I heard the report correctly. Certainly, this is a death sentence in that, without parole, he will die incarcerated.

Like you, his crime is, to me, unthinkable. Such evil must be secured against ever coming to the forefront of human comportment. Yet the question must be examined. Why do the same justice systems, whether national, state, or local, look at this man’s wickedness as criminal activity that must be dealt with as harshly as possible yet look upon the murder of children in the wombs of their mothers as deserving no punishment? As a matter of fact, governments have, since Roe v Wade in 1972, called abortion “the right of choice.”

The reason for justification of this death-dealing has been tied to a term that the fallen minds of men have come up with that makes it okay to kill children in ways they prescribe. That term is “the unborn.”

In the most egregious form of use of the term, it is applied to any child before he or she has taken his or her first breath. All before this are considered unborn, thus are viewed as not yet alive. Various states have, over the years, modified the permissive time frame for aborting. It is different in states regarding the number of months when there is life in the womb. When the number of months has been reached, the abortion can no longer be performed. Those who govern that industry have come up with their own ideas of when babies in the womb become yet another term in their vocabulary of taking the lives of children in the womb. The term is “viable.” When the baby becomes viable, it is no longer fair game for the abortionists.

To this point, that which we who believe in God’s View of what constitutes a human being –the person when conceived— has no standing in the world of those embracing the right to abort. The right-to-choose belief system declares the fetus as it is forming and beyond to looking like a human being to be nothing more than a blob of biological material to be removed, much like an unwanted tumor.

But God, Who Created all that is –including human beings— declares something quite the opposite. Here is what that All-Powerful, all-Knowing God says through inspiring the Psalmist to tell Truth about human life.

“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book, all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them” (Psalms 139:13-16).

The God of all Creation has declared that He knew each and every individual who has ever been born or will ever be born before the person was ever conceived in the womb. It is somewhat encouraging that at least there is now significant realization and acknowledgment of the Truth about the unborn – that the baby is fully a human being from the moment of conception and that each human being was fully a human being in God’s Omniscient mind even before mother and father ever joined in the child-producing union.

Here is a recent decision that seems to give hope that sanity still survives in this maddening world of anti-God, reprobate thinking.

A ruling from the Supreme Court in the state of Alabama has released a stunning verdict: That embryos are “children” under state law and protected by the same laws that apply to children already born.

The decision essentially determined that unborn children are a person. The question posed was whether a state law protecting children excluded those unborn.

“Under existing black-letter law, the answer to that question is no: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location,” the court said. “The relevant statutory text is clear: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies on its face to all unborn children, without limitation.”

The decision reversed a lower court ruling that tossed a case brought by three couples over the destruction of their embryos at a clinic. [Source: State Supreme Court Rules Embryos ARE Children! By Guest Contributor Feb. 20, 2024, WND.com]

I remain convicted with all within my spirit that God is going to make a world-shattering Statement at the Moment of Rapture. He will take every child below the age of being accountable for knowing to accept or reject Jesus Christ for Salvation of their souls. This will include, I’m convinced, every child just conceived and every baby gestating in the womb of his or her mother.

What a Judgment that will be upon a fallen world of anti-God rebels. You don’t want to be a part of that left-behind world. Here is how to go to Jesus when He Shouts to His Church –all born-again believers: Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1).

“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. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

We have looked at Restraint and Derision by the Lord against the anti-God wickedness of these evil, current times on a number of occasions in these commentaries.

That this Intervening action from Heaven would be the order of the last of the last days of the Dispensation of Grace (Church Age) is, of course, found in Psalms chapter 2 of the Old Testament and in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 in the New Testament.

“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.’ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:2-4).

We have looked before at truth regarding God’s Omniscient analysis involving the human minions of wickedness in high places that are, wittingly or not, doing Satan’s bidding.

A careful dissection of things going on over recent years shows time after time that the Lord has intervened to slow down the Ephesians 6:12 minions, both demonic and human, in their effort to hurry the process of bringing Antichrist to the end-times world stage.

Again, without intending to get deeply into the weeds of politics, I believe we see Heaven’s Intervention each and every day to slow the process of, for example, bringing this nation down from the Judeo-Christian principles the founding fathers intended.

We remember when Democrat party attendees years ago during their convention gave a resounding “No” when the proposition was brought up to keep the mention of God in official declarations of party campaign rhetoric. The “Nos” clearly dominated the voice vote, but those in charge didn’t dare try to kick God out because of the political damage that no vote would have inflicted.

Of course, kicking God out of anything isn’t possible with the omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God of Heaven. To that end, He continues to have that anti-God party in “derision,” just as He indicated He will do to anyone against Him.

They kept the word God in but definitely haven’t included Him in actuality in any way I can detect.

The anti-God opposition continues in that now more than ever radical, leftist, ideologically driven political party that governs. What I’ve written in the past in regard to God’s having such wickedness in derision applies more than ever while we move ever more quickly toward the Tribulation. I wrote the following some time ago:

These—the president, the vice president, and the press spokesperson—have actually become almost laughingstocks to observers outside their political party, their leftist ideology, and the mainstream media (which, mentioning in the same breath, is perhaps redundant). Their mental acuity is, it seems to me, inadequate to the challenge in addressing legitimate issues on the national and international scene.

These are avid adherents of the platform presented by the political party that verbally shouted God out of their midst.

As we’ve often looked at in considering how both political parties, along with every other aspect of American culture and society, including business, public education, and even woke military insanity, we see that our so-called leadership has almost without question been turned over to the reprobate mindset of Romans 1:28.

The result of the growing anti-God actions by most all of America’s day-to-day activity is eventuating in a madness that is inexplicable apart from Psalms chapter 2 as given above.

And the leaderships of most every nation on earth observably have fallen victim to the same reprobate infection as America’s governmental leadership. All of this aided and abetted by news reporters and institutions, which makes Hitler’s Goebbels look less wicked and evil by comparison.

Rebellious mankind, driven literally mad by their own back-turning to the God Who is not willing that any should perish but all should come to Repentance, are setting the stage for fulfilling prophecy of the most frightful sort. Jude was given to foretell this most terrible outcome for those whom God has in Derision at this very moment.

“But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage” (Jude 1: 10-16).

To those who are unbelievers in God’s Grace Gift Redemption Process and who are within these doomed anti-God rebels, upon which the Lord must one day, perhaps very soon, Pour His Righteous Judgment and Wrath, please understand the following: God has Provided a Way to be Reconciled to Him and to become part of His Family in Heaven Forever. This is the One and Only Way to escape the horrendous disaster, the Judgment and Wrath that is surely coming.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).