Abortion is Illegal. Yeah, right.

Athens: a City of Death Filled with Necrotic People

So, a High Court Judge has ruled that most of the abortions performed in New Zealand are illegal. Athenians have been caught with their pants down. There had been a widespread conspiracy, from the time it was passed, to disregard the law—so widespread, it became an open secret—and now no-one in Athens cares anymore. Virtually everyone has taken part in the conspiracy to subvert the law: politicians, doctors,the medical establishment, feminists, the media, the Abortion Supervisory Committee, Parliament—you name it.

Then a pesky judge has the temerity and gaucheness to state what is obvious—actually, the whole thing is illegal. Well strike me pink.

So here we have it. The bottom line is that in the pagan city, such as post-Christian New Zealand now is, the law will not restrain the practices of paganism. Even when, due to some political quirk of the day, on the odd occasion laws might be passed carefully restricting pagan practices they will be immediately disregarded. Paganism, when it becomes the dominant religion, will not be denied. Pagan practices will continue, no matter what the law says.

Abortion is one of those touchstone issues which separates slag from the refined metal. There can be no agreement between Jerusalem and Athens on this issue. Jerusalem knows and believes that the Creator God alone has the authority to declare not only what a human being is, but when a human being is conceived. He has not delegated to man the responsibility or right to so determine.

Athens, on the other hand, insists upon the right and authority of Man to determine what a human being is. The issue between the two cities is one of authority of religion. For Jerusalem, authority originates and turns upon the Living God. For Athens, authority originates and turns upon Man.

So Athens is remarkably consistent in its religion, regardless of its particular “policy” on abortion. The authority to determine when the unborn child has become human, or whether it ever becomes human, is variously declared to belong to the mother (“a woman has a right over her own body”); the “considered” corporate scientific opinion of the day (“human life begins at the first trimester, second trimester, ten days after birth—whatever); political consensus (“life is deemed not to have begun if the mother's pregnancy threatens her physical or mental well being”); or the parents (“if it's a girl baby, we will terminate it, or drown it after birth”), etc.

All these permutations have been found at various times within Athens, the City of Unbelief. But there is one common fundamental religious principle in that City: Man determines and decides who or what is human. But, we can go further. Historically Athens, has always advocated consuming and destroying its own children to one degree or other.

Amongst the Unbelieving Athenians, probably today the most respectful of life is Islam—that is, Islamic life. Yet embedded deeply within Islamic scholarship is the belief that the child in the womb does not become a human being until after it becomes a soul, which, in turn, occurs after conception. No-one is sure when that actually occurs—or how many days into the pregnancy. Up until that time, whenever it may be believed to occur, abortion is fine, because the child is not a human being. This is very similar to modern western secular Athenian views.

Ancient Greek and Roman cultures routinely killed their own children if they were not deemed appropriate—before or after birth, it mattered not. In Rome, the most common method was exposure of the child in the local rubbish dump.

Modern pagan New Zealand stands in principle exactly where ancient Rome stood. Man will decree, determine, and dispose of man. The pagans always consume their own children. They have done it since the Fall. They will do it until paganism dies out, and Athens is no more.

So, what should Jerusalem's response be to the Athenian practice of child-murder in New Zealand?

Firstly, we must be emphatically clear: for every drop of infant blood shed, for every killing of an infant in the womb, the Lord will wreak His vengeance. This is what needs to be declared without equivocation to Athens. God will have His vengeance, and it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. Either God will have already had His vengeance upon the Person of His own beloved Son, offered up as a substitute for His people, or He will require it upon all who have murdered children, whether in the womb or without, and persist in their Unbelief. He will require it of all complicit parties: the doctors, the politicians, the judges, the extended families, the fathers, the mothers, the false comforters.

Secondly, we must acknowledge that Athens will not stop this vile practice. Neither law nor sanction will prevent it. They are literally Hell bent on it. Athens is a city of death. It cannot help itself. It will always revert to killing its own children. The pagans are consuming their own. In so doing they are killing themselves, so that their own lines and its evil influence will be wiped out. “You want to kill your children? Have at it, then. You have always done it. You always will. We know you control society at present. We know we live in a post-Christian world. You will have your way.”

Therefore, the second response of Jerusalem to Athenian abortion needs to be to walk away from it. We need to shake off the dust from our feet against that vile City. With the words of the Lord, we need to say, “Let the dead bury their own dead. We, however, will follow Him in life.” Within Jerusalem, every child is loved and is precious in our sight—before birth, and after birth. We pray over each child in the womb. We marvel at the image of God, already fearfully and wonderfully made, that is about to come forth as His servant in the world. The whole community rejoices in the birth of one child and regards it as a precious trust. We take solemn vows at the baptism of each child, promising as a community to love and raise this child in the fear and admonition of the Lord. We promise the Lord that we will do our utmost to support the parents. We want nothing to do with the vile practices of paganism.

Thirdly, we need to say to Athenians, “You don't want your children? Give them to us. We want them. Don't kill them. We will raise them. What you hate, we will love”. Or if people would prefer to have their children and let them live, but things are so dark, that they cannot see a way forward, and so are contemplating abortion, we in Jerusalem need to be there to help them find a way. In Christ, there is always a way.

Ever since Adam fell, there has been blood on the human trail. In the temple environs of ancient Jerusalem, rivers of blood flowed every day. Substitute animal blood for the atonement of sin. Blood flowed at Golgotha. Substitute human blood belonging to the Lamb of God that all who believe in Him might be cleansed and forgiven. Blood flows like a torrent in Athens every day—in our hospitals and doctor's surgeries—which are supposed to be places of healing. Human blood. It is the bloodguilt of sin. It is the ultimate child sacrifice to Moloch, to the god of our own selfish “rights” and pleasures.

If the blood of one murdered person cries out to God from the ground, such that He never forgets it, but sets Himself to require an accounting, what cry must then come to God's ears from our wretched nation? What volume of sound must come to His holy ears—every day?

To Athenians—men and women—who bear the scars and guilt and anguish arising from having killed their own children, we say, “Flee the wrath to come. Leave that wretched city. Come to the city of the Lord Jesus Christ who alone can take away your blood guilt. And He will. He has promised it. Enter into the walls of the City of God. Its streets are wide. Its avenues broad and on each side is growing fruit for nourishment and food. It is a clean city. The blood of the Lamb has washed away all our sin. He will delight to wash away yours as well. He will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten.”