These tens of millions "missing" citizens are the unborn who have been destroyed in the womb since January 1973 because some
people insisted, with the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruling in agreement, that it is a "constitutional right" to mutilate, dismember, and
violently destroy an unborn child!
Isn't it more than a bit ironic that some church groups such as the United Methodist Church are lamenting the loss of members
over past decades while at the same time have staked out "official" social issue positions which support the "right" of a woman to have an abortion? Supposing
those more than 65 million had not been callously destroyed -- and if they had been permitted to live, would some of these have become members of some of these
churches now experiencing steady losses of membership?
Constantly within our society there is a cry at times and a longing that someone somewhere would come forth to make a significant
discovery which would greatly improve and/or enhance life in our society. Certainly one great example of this would be a breakthrough in discovering cures for the
many forms of cancer or a cure for the tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease, etc.
The question that our pro-abortion society refuses to consider is this -- what if the persons who would have made some of these
monumental discoveries have been among the well over 65 million victims destroyed by abortion? As of this writing the oldest group of these victims are now beginning
their 5th decade of life. They would be very well settled in their careers and raising families, and at this stage some would have young grandchildren -- that is, if they had been permitted to live!
Just as an ancient church named Laodicea failed to realize its poverty stricken condition, so we as a nation have failed to
realize how poverty stricken we are because of those missing victims that number over 65 million!
But even worse than that is the fact that we haven't faced up to the reality that Almighty God, Who had a plan for each of those
more than 65 million victims, has yet to make His personal response to this abominable record of the shedding of innocent blood over a period of over half a century -- and
that by a nation professing to be a "nation under God" and in recent months has been frequently quoting the phrase, "God bless America!"
The ancient Canaanites didn't get away with the violent sacrifices involving children (thrown into a fire to worship a violent
heathen deity!), and the ancient Israelites who later adopted those Canaanite practices of child sacrifice didn't escape the judgment of God -- so who are we to
believe that we will prove to be an exception and God will look the other way, or maybe some in their blindness mistakenly believe that God will merely
say, "Oh well, boys and girls will be boys and girls -- no harm done!"
Or could it be that a pro-abortion representative of the U.S. Supreme Court might wave a copy of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling in
the face of God and tell God to forget about those aborted children for whom He had plans because we have ruled that we can destroy any unborn child we want
to at any time we want to, even when that child may be just a few seconds away from a natural birth -- it's our "constitutional right" to do so! Come to think
of it, maybe the best person to do this would be deceased United Methodist Supreme Court justice, Harry Blackmun, who authored the Roe v. Wade decision -- he
should be well acquainted with God by this time and clearly knows God's view of unborn children!
The raw ignorance of governments and their citizens at times knows no limit -- and the United States clearly demonstrates this
and is more than well qualified to stand at the head of the line on its treatment of its unborn -- the missing of over 65 million citizens! The record indicates there were
about 15 million victims as a result of the Nazi Holocaust -- multiply that number by slightly over 4 times and you have 65 million victims -- and guess who the
culprit is this time? Can't point the finger any longer at those horrible Nazis can we?
So which will it be -- full fledged repentance from our massive idolatry, immorality and sin, including our weekly destruction of
thousands of unborn children or experience the wrath of a holy God Who isn't appreciative of humans deliberately disrupting His plans for other humans?
To be a bit more specific -- will our elected officials and our church leaders REALLY take a look at this, the greatest moral
crisis this country has ever faced, and in unison say to the citizens, "This callused and willful destruction of the unborn has got to cease immediately!" We all
know the answer to that, don't we? Especially when some denominational leaders go on public record as saying they agree with the "official" position of their
denomination which supports the "legal option of abortion" for women who want to terminate their pregnancies! The quotes from Jeremiah in the boxes just below
tell it the way it really is in the "land of the free and the home of the brave!"
And now, a concluding statement on all this! There will be those abortion supporters who will attempt to argue
that of those over 65 million mentioned there would be those who would turn out to be criminals, guilty of committing even violent crimes such as murder, etc! And
that is correct, there would be such. But even at the present time we have in prisons those who are highly educated and some even have doctoral degrees! It always comes down to a
matter of personal choice! God's desire is that each person will come to repentance, receive Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, and seek to fulfill the plan
that He has for one's life! If the well over 65 million had been permitted to live, it cannot be denied that there would have been those who would have made such a decision! Further,
as has been the main issue of this commentary, what significant contribution might such persons have made, IF they had been permitted to live? A cartoonist some years
ago captured the heart of the issue this way -- he drew a picture of a man on his knees crying out to God, "Oh, God send us somebody who will discover a cure for the
many diseases such as cancer and others which kill so many peope every year." A voice from the heavens above responds by saying, "I did, but you aborted them!" I now
rest my case!
as citizens they would be paying taxes and would be contributing to the Social Security Trust Fund, which our politicians like to raid from time to time -- it would not be in the mess it's in now if they had kept their long fingers out of it -- still in spite of the "raiders" there would be a few million more helping to increase the SS fund if those missing citizens could be found!
