Satan Hates Babies

[dave c]

HEALING SHELTER MINISTRIES #129j Re-Written 31OCT08 http://groups.msn.com/AHealingShelter/welcome.msnw

Gatekeepers—Part Ten: Satan Hates Babies

by rev dave c

Matthew 18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 2 He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! (NIV).

"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! The Serpent. Genesis 3:14-15: So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel" (NIV). “The offspring of the woman will crush your head.” Since God’s judgment upon Adam and Eve for their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Satan (as the serpent) has hated children. It is no wonder, then, that throughout history the Evil One has targeted the young as objects of his fear and wrath—especially during those occasions when God providentially, and personally, intervenes in the situations and the affairs of mankind.

"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! Pharaoh. Exodus 1:15&16: The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." ...22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live" (NIV). It is more than coincidence that an ancient king of Egypt would evoke such murderous decrees just prior to God bringing Moses as a human savior into the world to deliver His people out of slavery. In the person of Pharaoh we see Satan attempting to delay, if not destroy, God’s plan for the ages through the wholesale slaughter of newborns.

"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! Herod. Matthew 2:16-18: When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more" (NIV). Just as in the Old Testament account of the birth of Moses as a type of Christ for the Hebrews of 3,500 years ago, we see King Herod being used by Satan to kill all the male children two and under around Bethlehem in hopes that the Christ-child would be destroyed before He could set the people of God free from their slavery to sin and death.

"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! The Red Dragon. Revelation 12:1-4: A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born (NIV). Finally, in the Revelation of the Apostle John, we see Satan, himself, portrayed as a dragon bent upon devouring the child of the woman (the Second Person of the Trinity who is the Son of God come to Earth as the Son of Man, who was crucified by men and resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit) before He can return to claim His Bride and Body, the Church.

"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! Western Culture. Are we, as People of the Word, so blinded by our culture that we can not see the role that factions of our Federal legislature and judicial system are playing in the outworking of the spiritual battle between Satan and the heirs to the Kingdom of God? Are we unable to see how the arrogance and cold heartedness of Pharaoh and King Herod are being relived in the 21st Century by those who clamor that “we must, We Must, WE MUST” kill our babies by the tens of millions? Isn’t it apparent that the real power behind the throne, the person behind the curtain, is “the Man of Lawlessness,” “the Man of Sin,” spoken of in the Second Chapter of Second Thessalonians? Jesus tells us in Matthew 12:20, “He who is not with me is against me” (NIV). If our country is to survive, it is time for the Church to rise up as one voice and take our nation back to the God based society of our Founding Fathers while we still have the legal means to do so. Perhaps it is not too late.

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[dave c]

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