Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Satan’s Surrogates
Now Pharaoh broadens his commandment and instead of using the midwives he turns to his own people, who have been desensitized to seeing the Hebrews as people but only as a subclass of slaves. So, Pharoah tells all the people of Egypt to spy on the children of Israel and if they see a newborn male child then they are to kill it. I imagine this would have been done by reporting it to the Egyptian taskmasters or soldiers, but the way the Bible puts it any common citizen had the duty and the right to kill any male babies as long as it was Hebrew.
With this action Pharoah is no longer just a servant of Satan but he is now a surrogate acting in the same way that Satan himself would have acted. His inclusion of the all the people has terrible consequences when God sends his plagues upon the nation that so callously killed.
The newborn boys were to be killed by being thrown into the Nile River. The Nile was worshipped as a god by the Egyptians. Each newborn death then was a sacrifice to their great god of the river. When Moses returned and told Pharoah to release his people and he refused Moses and Aaron then turned the Nile into blood. Now it was a symbol both of the death of the newborns and the death of their falsely called god. The God of the lowly Hebrew slaves slew the god of the great Egyptians as the consequence of the slaughter of the innocents.
Satan’s Stand-ins
Just as Pharoah, the supreme power of Egypt commanded babies to be killed in Exodus, another supreme authority in our nation in 1973 ruled babies could be aborted simply because they were inconvenient, unwanted or would interfere with the career or education of the mother. The vast majority, 93%, of babies are aborted for the reason of inconvenience. Imagine that.
In 1990 at the height of abortion deaths there were 1.6 million deaths from the procedure. That number slowly came down but was still almost one million every year. That makes it by far the single highest cause of death in our nation, much, much higher than cancer, heart disease or car accidents
Then in 2022 the Supreme Court did what many believed would never happen, they ruled that Roe Vs. Wade, the case that legalized nationwide abortion, was wrong.
Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the 1973 Roe ruling and repeated subsequent high court decisions reaffirming Roe "must be overruled" because they were "egregiously wrong," the arguments "exceptionally weak" and so "damaging" that they amounted to "an abuse of judicial authority."
Just as God used two midwives to overcome the infanticide of Pharoah, he used millions of simple, common men and women, who prayed, marched, voted and gave to stop nationwide abortion in this country. Abortion still goes on, but praise God it is no longer the law of the land. There are states that legalize it and God will deal with them, but our nation is no longer required to allow the killing of the unborn.
Just as there are consequences for evil laws there are blessings for moral and upright laws. We have a long way to go, but let us rejoice that we have reversed one of the worst marks of unrighteousness our nation has ever lived under.
The principle of sowing and reaping is found throughout scripture, it applies to individuals, families and yes to nations. We cannot forget or ignore it.
Isaiah says in 3:10-11 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Hosea speaks to the nation in 10:12-13 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way,…
Paul says it to us as New Testament believers, in Galatians 6:7-10 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
This truth was never so important as a guiding principle for us as it is today. We sow what we reap, both corruption or life. And because that is true than we as the people of God in this age must not grow weary in well doing because when the time is due, we will reap the good we have sown in the work of God.
This is why we do not shrink from telling the truth, why we vote and most importantly why we preach the Gospel. For in due season we shall reap the joyous harvest of saved souls and redeemed lives.
And though the we cannot know how all our prayers will be answered, or all what all our work will produce, we can know this, that choosing life, protecting the innocent and obeying God is always, always the right decision. And we can know that God will reward that obedience in His due season. Never doubt it.
