The Slaughter of the Innocents,
and the
Future of America
                                                                                           By Pastor F. M. Riley
                                                                                           June 28, 2017
     "Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord," 2 Kings 21:16.  
     "And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon." 2 Kings 24:4.  
     "Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils [demons],
     And they shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood," Psalm 106:37-38.
Introduction
     Sin is abounding in America!  Every honest American knows this to be true!  It is so bad that I sometimes have people say to me, "Surely God would not destroy this great nation?  Why would the Lord destroy America, which has sent out so many Christian missionaries, and has been a Christian nation ever since it was founded?  When I am asked this question, I immediately think of Ezekiel 33:1-18.  33:18 explicitly states, "When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby."    Plain enough?
I Remember.......
     Some of my earliest memories were of being just a baby, an infant, and being held and rocked in my mother's arms.  I loved it!...and I still remember it right to this day.  I loved my Momma, and I know she loved me.  Likewise for my Daddy.  I dearly loved him, and he loved me, and showed that he did so, in many ways.  
     The inspired Word explicitly states, "Train up a child in the way he should go:  and when he is old, he will not depart from it," Proverbs 22:6.  As I grew older my Momma and Daddy never sent me to Sunday School and Church services.  They went themselves and took me!  Our whole family attended church services regularly, plus having Bible study and prayer in our home.  I remember this today, and thank God for my Christian upbringing.  As a result I came to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus when I was still a young boy, Ecclesiastes 12:1.  
     Folks, there is no other way to bring up a child correctly, other than to love that child, and show your love for your children by bringing them up in ".....the nurture and admonition of the Lord," Ephesians 6:4.  Today I literally grieve over the lack of love for little children in many of today's "modern" homes.  Parents are just too busy with other things to devote any quality time to their children.  They use the TV for a baby sitter to keep the child entertained, and out of the way of whatever it is the parents want to do.  No real love shown for the child, and very little instruction or discipline.  And it shows in the life of the child!   Is it any wonder that so many young children today are little more than undisciplined "brats?" And only the Lord knows how many of them turn out to be little more than worthless drunken bums, bullies, and thugs?  These are the children who are the future of America!  Sic!  
     Think about it!  If you are a parent, let the Lord God speak to your heart, and with His help, make whatever changes need to be made in your home, your family, and your lifestyle.  
The Great War
     Yes, I do remember the events of the Second World War, because I lived through those years.  I was only seven years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941.  I remember listening on our old round topped radio to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he announced to the American people that our country was entering the war against Japan and Germany.  I remember my mother crying and praying, for she knew the consequences of a world at war.  
     I remember seeing dozens of young men in our community and county lined up at the local recruiting office, volunteering to go into the military to fight the Japanese and Nazi Germany.  I remember seeing some of those grown men break into tears and cry in public, when they were classified as "4-f," physically unfit for military service.  You talk about patriotism and love of our country.  People back then truly knew what it mant to be patriotic, and they had a true love for America.  
     And yes, I remember my mother overwhelmed and crying in deep sorrow when my older brother was drafted into the military the day he became 18 years of age.  The fighting going on at that time in Europe and the Pacific, was so bitter, that my mother never expected my brother to come home alive.  But by the prayers of my parents, and the grace of God, he did!
The Jewish Holocaust  
     As already stated, I was seven years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed.  But at the age of six, I had learned to read, and I loved it.  I read every book worth reading, and  I read the newspaper daily, keeping up with news about the war.   
      This is how I learned about Adolph Hitler and his Nazi thugs, and how they were persecuting and murdering the Jewish people in Germany and throughout Europe.  
     Even as a young boy, from our Bible studies at home, and in church services, I knew that the Jewish people were God's chosen people upon the Earth.  As I read the newspaper daily, and listened to the news on our radio, I learned how the Jews were being persecuted, imprisoned, and murdered by Hitler and his Nazi thugs.  But what especially appalled me was to read and hear about the brutal murders of the Jewish babies born to their mothers in the concentration camps in Europe.  I remember reading how some of those tiny, innocent, babies were taken by their little legs and swung hard against the rock walls of the concentration camps, bursting their skulls wide open so that their brains fell out of their heads onto the ground.  This was often done right before their mothers who had given them birth.  Even as a young child, I cried when I read these reports of the atrocities being committed against the Jewish people by the Nazis.  Why would anyone want to brutally kill a tiny newborn innocent baby, and in such a cruel manner?  I didn't understand it back then, and I still don't understand it today.   I am now an old man, but I still love little babies.   
Then came Roe vs Wade
     The war came to an end in Europe in 1945.  By the prayers of many people across this great country, and by God's grace and mercy, the Allied Forces had been given victory.  Our American boys in the military came home to their loved ones and families.  Glory to God!
     We then lived in peace and prospered for the next 28 years following the war.  Then the weeping started again.  I remember breaking out in tears and crying, when the news media announced that the Supreme Court of these United States of America had "legalized" the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of the innocent unborn, today commonly referred to as "abortion."  As a nation and a people, did we not learn anything from the callous murders of the Jews and their babies?  
     One of the definitions in the Dictionary for "murder," defines it as "the deliberate, willful, premeditated, taking of another person's life."  Some today get "bent out of shape" and offended when one refers to the abortion of innocent unborn babies as "murder."   Oh no, they say!  It can't be murder, because it is "legal."  The Supreme Court of these United States of America "legalized" it when they handed down their decison on Roe vs Wade in 1973.  
     Strange!   I do not remember reading anywhere in God's Word where the fifth commandment in the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill" [murder], has been changed or annulled by the Lord God.  When an innocent unborn baby is "aborted," isn't that taking away their life?  Every honest reader knows it is!  And by willful, premeditation!  
     Dear readers, even as a young child, I was grieved in my heart when reading about the wicked Nazis callously murderering the innocent babies born to the Jewish women in concentration camps, and now our own American government had stamped it's approval on such murders?  How hypocritical and wickedly depraved can lost people become?  What was considered wrong, brutal, and evil during the Second World War, with the newspapers of every free country in the world reporting on it, had suddenly become right and okay in America, just because nine gutless, wicked, depraved, justices on the Supreme Court of the United States had "legalized" it?  No!  According to the Word of God, it is not okay.  Rather, it is the slaughter of the "innocents."   
     Sadly, in America today, a minimum of one million innocent, unborn babies every year, pay the supreme penalty for the depravity and evil of those nine Supreme Court Justices who were sitting on the bench in 1973.   But it didn't stop there!
     During the Second World War, America became the moral example for the nations of the whole world.  All the nations of the world came to look upon America as a moral example, due to how we treated even the enemies we were fighting during the war years.  Then in 1973 we "legalized" the cold-blooded murder of the innocent unborn?  What kind of moral example was this?  
     It proved to be enough of an example to the nations, that within a few months, nation after nation had followed America's example, and "legalized" abortion of the unborn in their own countries.  Today, it is conservatively estimated that one hundred sixty five million innocent unborn babies are slaughtered every year in countries around the world.  Right here in America, it is estimated that from 1,000 to 4,500 innocent unborn babies are butchered every single day in the murder mills that have now been set up in nearly every community in America.   
     Today many "professing" Christians stand and proudly sing, "God bless America" in their church services and in public gatherings.  I feel like "puking" every  time I hear someone singing this song, or even saying the phrase.  How can our righteous and Holy God bless a country who is callously murdering its own innocent unborn every day that passes?   As a nation and people, we have made the Nazi butchers during the Second World War look like amateurs.  
The Swiftly Approaching Judgment of God
     Yet there are "professing Christians" today who think that the Lord God of Heaven would never allow "this great nation of America" to come under His judgment and be destroyed.  Sic!  The Lord God did not hesitate to judge and destroy His own chosen nation and people of Israel, when they began killing their own sons and daughters.  So why would the Lord God hesitate to judge and destroy America for commiting the same sin as His own chosen people were committing?  
     Have these "Christians" who do not believe America will ever cease to be a nation read Jeremiah 48:10 lately?  Or how about 1 Timothy 4:1-2?  Or Psalm 9:17?   But some of these "willingly ignorant" "Christians" refuse to believe these Scriptures, giving them their own "spin."  So let's just spell it out  The Lord God, speaking to His own chosen nation and people in Jeremiah 30:11, explicitly stated, "For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished."  Now every honest reader can see for themselves that the Lord said that He would make "a full end" of every nation into which the Jewish people have been scattered.  
     Folks, there are more Jews living in and around New York City, and along the East Coast of the United States today, than are living right now in the entire country of Israel.   And the inspired Word clearly states that the Lord God is going to make "a full end" of every nation on earth into which the Jewish people have been scattered.  Whether some like it or not, that includes the United States of America.  
Purged by Blood
     The Lord God once told the Jewish people that they had filled Jerusalem and their land with "blood," to the extent that their city and land could only be cleansed by the shedding of "blood."  The Lord was speaking of the blood of the "innocents" that the Jewish people had shed like water, round about Jerusalem and through the whole land.  Therefore, the law of reproduction came into effect.  "For whatsoever a man sowth, that shall he also reap," Galatians 6:7.   And boy, did it!  
     When the Kingdom of Assyria invaded the northern Kingdom of Israel, thousands of Jews who attempted to resist were killed, and thousands more carried off into captivity.   When the Kingdom of Babylon invaded the southern Kingdom of Judah, thousands more who resisted Babylon were killed, and again thousands were carried off into captivity.  Then forty years after the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, the Roman armies invaded the land and laid seige to the city of Jerusalem.  The writings of Josephus describes how that over one million Jews literally starved to death in the seige of Jerusalem.   
     I am made to wonder how many "baby killers" will die horrible deaths in America, when the appointed time arrives for America's judgment?   Thank God, if I have "rightly divided the Word of truth," [2 Timothy 2:15], I won't be here to see it happen.  By the grace and mercy of God, the Lord's New Covenant Church and people will have already been resurrected and raptured to glory when America's day of judgment arrives.            
   Conclusion
     Dear readers, we are living in "the last days" of this present Dispensation of Grace, whether some want to believe it or not.  The Lord Jesus Christ will return at any minute of any day now, to receive His New Covenant Church and people to Himself, exactly as He promised in John 14:1-6.  The resurrection and rapture of the Lord's people may occur at any minute now.  Are you ready?  Read Luke 21:36, and take it to heart.  
      Once the Lord's New Covenant Church and people have been removed off the face of the Earth, the terrible judgments of the Tribulation period will come upon all those left behind on the Earth.  I highly suspect that those who have callously murdered the innocent unborn will experience terrible suffering and death, Galatians 6:7-8.  
     It doesn't have to be this way, for Christ died to save sinners.  Honestly and earnestly confess your sins to the Lord in prayer, and ask Him to come into your heart and save you, and He will!  Read Ephesians 2:8-10 and John 3:16, and believe and act upon these Scriptures.     
     I'd like to meet every reader in Heaven.  Please don't disappoint me!
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     I again thank each reader who prays for this ministry, and those who send gifts from time to time.  I thank you from my heart.   
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