Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Cursed in the Midst of Prosperity

This seventh curse of killing or sacrificing children is evidenced in America today, as women who have carried their children almost to term suddenly decide they don't want their babies. At abortion facilities, they don't sacrifice their children on altars; they simply "terminate their pregnancies." Then the bodies of these precious babies, whose hearts were beating within their mothers' wombs, and whose features were perfectly shaped down to the detail of their fingernails and eyelashes, are discarded. Some horrible reports tell of cases where babies' remains were found in dumpsters. God revealed that a time would come when a woman would turn against her husband, leave her children, and hate the children that she conceives and births. In part, this describes the curse of abortion. A Cause of God's Disfavor The act that greatly incites God's disfavor is articulated throughout the Bible. It began in Genesis when Cane killed Abel, and will continue through the end times when Mystery Babylon forces the slaughter of righteous believers. That act is murder, and its curse results from the shedding of innocent blood. Many Americans have turned a deaf ear to abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was upheld in 1973, most citizens think nothing of the act or its consequences. God said, "Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward" (Psalms 127:3). Children are a blessing and not a curse. Warnings were given to Israel throughout its history concerning the shedding of innocent blood. God literally hates the "hands that shed innocent blood" (Proverbs 6:16-17). When Manasseh rose to power in Israel, he sacrificed his own children to idol gods. This was referred to as passing children through the fire of Molech (Leviticus 18:21). Molech was an idol made of iron, made to look like a man below the waist and a bull above the waist. The belly of the idol was hollow and contained fire. Worshipers passed their children between Molech's hot metal hands and threw them into the idol's belly as a human offering. God expressed His opinion about this idol worship in the Torah: "Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord. And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants" (Leviticus 18:21,25). Some of Israel's kings fell into this ungodly sin.

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