Abortion in Israel: Why Is There No Public Outcry from Pro-Life Christians?
Israel,
a nation that receives strong support from evangelical Christians around the
world because of God’s promises to the Jewish people and their Promised Land,
boasts of having one of most liberal abortion laws in the world, but such
sacrifice of babies on the altar of Moloch and Baal barely causes a ripple
among right-wingers and pro-life Christians.
Furthermore,
while all Israeli women who want a “free,” publicly funded abortion must go
before a government panel before having an abortion, the Israeli newspaper
Times of Israel reports 98
percent of abortions are approved.
In
2012, Israel legally performed 20,063 “free” abortions — approximately 10% of
all known pregnancies in Israel — at the expense of tax-payers. These numbers
do not include non-recorded abortions performed in private offices without
government funding.
So
it is no surprise that in 2014 The Times of Israel
run the headline “Israel’s abortion law now among world’s most liberal.”
Israel’s
liberal abortion laws have been approved under Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who is the leader of the most right-wing coalition government in
Israel’s history.
The Netanyahu government has also been an
advocate of the global warming ideology, even criticizing the Trump
administration for rejecting it, according to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
Even though Netanyahu is known among
American conservatives as a Jewish leader who encourages people to read the
Bible and fiercely fights for the Promised Land — and he has my full support on
these positions —, his anticonservative stances are less known, including his
support for the homosexual agenda.
So Israel under Netanyahu has been no
better than the most rebel Israeli governments in the Old Testament.
Writing in the progressive website
“Patheos,” Catholic author Mark Shea raised an interesting point in his 2014 article
titled “The Zealously Pro-Abort Politician ‘Prolife’ Christian Conservatives
Staunchly Support.” He said,
“The
Dems may have soured on Obama, but there is still one ardently pro-abortion
politician that Americans love and support without question. Curiously, he is,
if anything more intensely and unquestioningly supported by ‘prolife’
conservative Christians than by the left. Indeed, for many ‘prolife’ Christian
conservatives, to question this zealously pro-abortion politician is like
questioning the will of God himself. His name: Benjamin Netanyahu, whose
administration enacted some of the most fanatically pro-abortion laws on the
planet. Imagine conservative prolife Christians regularly declaring ’We must
stand with President Obama as never before!’ and you get something of the
disconnect. Only Obama has never enacted abortion policies as radical as
Israel’s under Netanyahu. And with our tax monies, we are helping to subsidize
them, all while Christian conservatives have been almost entirely silent,
because many of them hold to a theology of ‘Touch not God’s Anointed’ when it
comes to Israel.”
For conservative Americans, Israel in
the Bible and Israel as a modern state with its pro-abortion and pro-sodomy
policies are morally separate. In fact, they think that they should treat
modern pro-abortion Israel with the same holy attitude Israel is treated in the
Bible. Because Israel is abundantly mentioned in the Bible, they are incapable
of criticizing modern Israel over its abortion and sodomy advocacy.
Their
inconsistency is also demonstrated by their attitude of supporting pro-sodomy
and pro-abortion Netanyahu when in no way they would tolerate similar version
of pro-sodomy and pro-abortion right-wing politician in America.
Yet, not only conservatives are
inconsistent regarding Israel.
You would expect left-wing groups around
the world to hail Israel for its liberal abortion law. After all, these groups
are in the forefront of the worldwide abortion advocacy in the United States,
UN, etc.
You would expect these groups to follow
their particular leftist common sense: “If Israel has liberal abortion and Arab
nations do not have it, so we side with Israel!”
You would expect these groups to defend
pro-abortion Israel and attack the antiabortion neighboring Muslim nations of
Israel. But this is not so. Even when Israel insanely embraces abortion and gay
parades and other homosexual perversions (rejected by all its Muslim
neighbors), these groups keep supporting anti-sodomy and anti-abortion Muslim
nations and attacking pro-abortion and pro-sodomy Israel.
Why do they behave this way? Cannot they
appreciate the many leftist affinities of the Jewish state with the interests
of the global Left? Cannot they remember that Karl
Marx was a Jew? Do not they know that Israel
is the most successful socialist nation in the world?
They seem to fear that if you begin to
remember the Jewish component in Marx or in the pro-abortion Israel, people
will be led to prominent Jewish qualities that are superior to Marx and the pro-abortion
Israel.
Moses and the Jewish Scriptures (the
Christian Old Testament) are superior to any leftist trendy law in Israel.
The
Jewish people are engraved with eternal values (this is why we say
Jewish-Christian values) and these values are above Marx and pro-abortion
Israel. Lead people to think in Jewish people, and they will inevitably think
in the Jewish Scriptures. So is it any wonder that leftists prefer to defend
Arabs and Muslims?
The Jewish state spends millions to
subsidize abortion — and subsidy is the socialist way to take your money to
fund services you do not approve, including abortion. If the liberal abortion
law in Israel doesn’t anger Israeli right-wingers, it should anger conservative
Christians around the world and lead them to take an intelligent stance on
Israel: To support Jews’ exclusive right to their Promised Land, but not their
sins.
Abortion is a very serious sin and crime.
In fact, the Bible says that blood-shedding defiles a nation. In the case of
Israel, its liberal abortion law defiles the Promised Land. And if God’s Word
is correct, the only atonement for the blood of babies killed by abortion shed
on the Promised Land is by the blood of the Jews who have shed it. God said,
“You
shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and
the land can have no expiation for blood that is shed on it, except by the
blood of him who shed it.” (Numbers 35:33 The Jewish Study Bible: Second
Edition. Oxford University Press. 2014)
Pro-life
groups should protest taxpayer funding of abortions in Israel. There is no
inconsistency between to support the Jewish right to the Promised Land and to
protest the sacrifice of innocent Israeli babies. In fact, Israeli prophets,
who believed the fundamental right of the Jews to their land, protested
abundantly the sacrifice of babies in the worship of Baal in the old government
of Israel.
Prophets’ protests are abundantly recorded
in the Jewish Scriptures, which are the Christian Old Testament.
So
if God’s servants denounced Israel’s sins in the past, why are God’s servants today
so silent and fearful of denouncing the defilement of the Promised Land by the
sins of sodomy (homosexuality) and sacrifice of babies (abortion) committed by
the Jews in Israel? Or has Israel today an exclusive right to sin — a right God
did not give to the old Israel?
What is the point of a Christian defending
the Jews’ right to their land if they, by their sins, are losing the most
important “land” — the eternal Promised Land in the Heaven?
Christians have an obligation to defend
the exclusive Jewish right to the Promised Land. But they have a much bigger
responsibility: to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jews in Israel and
around the world, to save them from their sins, including their adherence to
abortion, sodomy, socialism, etc.
Not every Christian leader disagrees with
Israel’s abortion law. In Brazil, the founder of the Universal Church of the
Kingdom of God (UCKG) is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel and abortion.
Bishop Edir Macedo is a so big supporter
of Israel that he and other UCKG leaders often visit Israel. He inaugurated in
São Paulo a gigantic replica of the temple of Solomon. But, at the same time, he
is the most pro-abortion and cessationist neo-Pentecostal leader in Brazil.
He
became pro-abortion after several years living in the United States in contact
with pro-abortion Protestants. And the Israeli pro-abortion culture only hardened
his stance. Ultimately, he is following Israel’s sins.
What is the point of a Christian visiting
Israel — just as Macedo and UCKG leaders frequently do — without preaching the
Gospel or even do as the old prophets did by denouncing the blood-shedding of
innocent babies defiling the Promised Land?
Why
cannot pro-Israel Christians as Macedo denounce Israel’s sins?
Israel’s sins to be denounced do not
include their conflict with Palestinians usurpers, because the Promised Land is
just for Jews. Palestinians, who are mostly Muslim Arabs, should seek somewhere
else to live.
The
pro-life stance Christians have came from the Scriptures God gave to Israel,
and Christians should work to give the Scriptures back to Israel, in its
essence of obedience.
God said about the old Israel, with words
that are similarly relevant to the modern pro-abortion Israel:
“Their
own sons and daughters they sacrificed to demons. They shed innocent blood, the
blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land was polluted with bloodguilt. Thus they became defiled by their
acts, debauched through their deeds. The LORD was angry with His people and He
abhorred His inheritance.” (Psalm 106:37-40 The Jewish Study Bible: Second
Edition. Oxford University Press. 2014)
According to the Jewish Scriptures, God
abhors child sacrifice and He abhors even His inheritance, Israel, when His
people sheds innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters.
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| Child sacrifice to the god Baal in the old Israel |
Yet,
U.S. conservative Christians have had toward modern Israel a sacred silence on
child sacrifice and sodomy that Israeli Prophets in the past never had toward
the old Israel for the same sins.
As a right-winger, Benjamin Netanyahu
is right when he denounces the Inquisition and the Holocaust and their Jewish
victims. He
was courageous by giving Pope Francis “The Origins of the Inquisition in
Fifteenth Century Spain,”
a book written by his own father that largely revolves about Spanish Catholics
questioning, torturing, punishing and burning Jews. Pope Francis, who in his
turn should give Netanyahu a book on how Jews are cowardly aborting their
babies in Israel, has never done it.
Famous evangelical leaders who visit
Israel and meet Netanyahu have had the same “courage” as the pope: They have
never given Netanyahu any book showing how Israel is sinning against God by
killing its own babies and celebrating sodomy.
Netanyahu
gave a very beautiful example by giving a book on the crimes of the
Inquisition. Now who will give him a book on the crimes of abortion?
The abortion holocaust needs to be
exposed. When U.S. Christian leaders shut their eyes to abortion in Israel
under Netanyahu, they are not behaving prophetically. They are behaving
cowardly.
Above all, Christians should remember that
the earthly Promised Land is not the ultimate destiny of the Jews. So they have
the urgent mission to prepare the Jews for the heavenly Promised Land. And the
only way to prepare them is by preaching the Gospel.
Without spiritual conversion, earthly Jews
will keep filling the Promised Land with the blood of aborted babies and the
abominable stains of sodomy. With such sins, they have no right to enter the
heavenly Promised Land.
They need to know the Jewish Jesus, who is
against the Inquisition and abortion and gives abundant life. Who will introduce
Him to them?
With
information from Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, LifeSiteNews, Daily Beast and
Jewish Virtual Library.
Portuguese
version of this article: Aborto em Israel: Por que não há protestos públicos
generalizados de cristãos pró-vida?
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