So give their children over to famine;
hand them
over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives be made childless and widows;
let their men be put to death,
their young men slain by the sword in battle. Jeremiah 18:21
Let their wives be made childless and widows;
let their men be put to death,
their young men slain by the sword in battle. Jeremiah 18:21
In
the book of Jeremiah, God allowed the deaths of children by famine and war. He did not just pinpoint
children, but women and men too.
The
purpose of the children’s death were much different than abortion. God punished His people after centuries of
disobedience. The threat of the death of
children (as stated here in Jeremiah 18) was God’s hope to deter the people from
the path they were on as a nation. Even
the deaths of their children didn’t deter the people from ignoring God.
God
allowed a nation to invade and destroy Judah.
So who is really to blame for the deaths of the children here?
Abortion
is the murder of a child for convenience.
It’s a decision made by the mother, not God. It’s not really for the good of anyone—not the
child, or the mother, not even for the good of the nation as a whole who allows
such practices.
God
wanted those aborted children to live. He
had plans and purposes for them. In Judah, God knew
the future of that nation in Jeremiah’s day and they were all
headed in the wrong direction. Only God
can make that determination.