LATE TERM ABORTION DEPICTS NATURAL MAN

LATE TERM ABORTION DEPICTS NATURAL MAN

William Andrew Dillard
Parson to Person

The depths of depravity in modern man has not achieved a new, low state. Quite the contrary! the depravity of man is complete, and has been since Adam & Eve’s fall. One example of it is late term abortions. They have been around for millenniums, but in a more crude fashion, and just as cruel. God used it to depict the awful, spiritual and moral state of Jerusalem as spoken through the prophet Ezekiel, a contemporary with Daniel. The entire sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel lays it all out in grisly detail.
Jerusalem (City of Peace) had been the object of the tender love and mercies of the Lord including abundant material blessings, but they forsook His ways and denying His blessings upon them, they sunk into the depths of sin in turning away from the holy commandments delivered to them. Wallowing in the fleshly sins of false religion and corrupt morals, God cut them down to size in what must be the most castigating message ever recorded.
Ezekiel begins the message: “Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite [all heathen descendants of Ham]. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou was cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou was in thy blood, Live: yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.” Here then is a graphic picture of the reality of sin, and its mocking lack of compassion upon all of the offspring of Adam. Here also is the marvelous grace of the Creator-God of Love. By His mercies are His children blessed.
The question remains to each of us as to how we appreciate those blessings and what we are doing to honor our Life-giving, merciful, altogether wonderful, Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. Each of us should do a reality check often! But for the loving mercies and grace of the Lord we should be nothing more than late term abortions cast into a field.