Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

behind closed doors of abortion facilities. It is being sold as a right that our Founding Fathers intended. The loss of respect for life is frightening. If an infant can be redefined as fetal tissue then, in the future, how will senior citizens be defined? Will they be inconvenient, or too expensive, or non-productive? Ronald Reagan said, "We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life." At the heart of respect is basic respect for God and for all the human life that He has created. Teaching that one can redefine life by calling an unborn child a mass of cell tissue devalues all life. Some nations use abortion for population control. In some places, euthanasia is the choice used to eliminate the weak, sick, mentally retarded, and elderly. I believe that some ungodly politicians have not already supported euthanasia simply because they would lose many of their voters! I can see the debate now: "We can save hundreds of millions of dollars under Social Security and Medicare by removing millions of non-productive people from the nation through humane termination. The money saved can be used to invest in the education of our youth." Impossible? Not to those who have no moral and spiritual convictions. As I learn more about America's extraordinary connection to the Hebrews, it becomes clearer to me why God raised up America. It is also clear that we must uphold the spiritual covenant of our Founding Fathers. God judged Israel for breaking His covenant. Since He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, we can only expect a similar response for America's covenant breaking. God did not unleash His full judgment upon Israel until He first visited them with mercy. His mercy was an expression of His love and was intended to convict their hearts to repentance. Genesis states that, "...the cup of iniquity must become full" before God swiftly unleashes the wrath of His mighty hand (Genesis 15:16). The Ten Commandments were not ten recommendations. If we obeyed them we would be spared from divorce, greed, murder, stealing, lying, and corruption. In the Promised Land, Ancient Israel eventually broke every commandment. Their sins moved the hand of God to unleash His wrath by preparing a plan for Israel to enter into Babylonian captivity. American captivity is of a different nature. We are not plagued by foreign troops who force us into Siberian slavery. We experience our captivity as an internal void caused by the spiritual darkness that we 26