Oh Please Pray!

The Women’s Health Center in the Building For Women in Duluth MN. have horrible and gruesome plans for unborn children tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17, 2008.

What un-thinkable and evil things they plan to do to little ones! To rip off from the body of these precious unborn children their little arms and legs and head, is just wicked and cruel to the extreme.

Pray for mothers and fathers to change their minds about killing their little unborn child.

Pray for the sidewalk counselors to have wisdom and speak the Word of God to the parents, perhaps they will turn and repent of the evil they are about to do.

Thank you again for prayer! Praise God! He is moving in wonderful ways that we cannot even comprehend!

A recent comment was made by a reader from our last post… This person has come up with an idea that is called, ” THE JEPHTHAH PRINCIPLE”…  There are many strange ideas that people come up with, but I thought this was one that exposes the corrupt and violent mentality of some people… here is the comment and then my answer:

“Do you remember the Biblical story of Jephthah?”

“Jephthah was a warrior for God. He fought and killed for God. He prayed once for victory and promised to sacrifice the first thing he would see upon returning home from battle if God would grant him victory.
Well he got his victory and the first thing he saw when he went home was his only child.
The moral: anyone who fights for God, or calls himself a warrior for God, or joins an organization with a name like “Army of God”, or commits an act of terrorism for God, should be punished with the assassination(s) of his child(ren). Such assassinations would not be murders but justifiable homicides. This is called the Jephthah Principle.”

“The Jephthah Principle should apply most strongly to right-to-lifers. Since they terrorize in order to prevent “children” from being killed, responding in a way which makes their terror also CAUSE the killings of some children (their own) is a reasonable, even elegant, deterrent strategy.”

“Paul Hill was as much a suicide terrorist as the hijackers on 9111. The suicide weapon was the Florida State Government. His programmer–the counterpart of Osama bin Laden–was a man named John Burt who ought to be in prison for accessory to three murders but I’m not complaining too much, because he is in prison for molesting the clients at his “pro-life Christian sanctuary” for destitute pregnant girlies. Anyway, Paul Hill wrote to his friends and fundraisers that he delayed his terrorist double-murder until his wife Karen who now lives in Memphis and his children Justin Gloria and Joy were out of town, in order to avoid the risk of their being implicated. What if he had known that he would be exposing them to the risk of becoming victims of justifiable homicide at the hands of a counterterrorist enforcing the Jephthah Principle? And that their blood would remain halal even after his execution?”

Here is my answer:

The WHOLE BASIS of your argument for, “The Jephthah Principle”, is founded on false assumptions, a distorted reading of scripture, and a false perception of God and His Character.

You obviously do not understand the Character of God, nor do you know Him. Your perception I find very alarming due to the violent conclusions you have expressed.

I am a women under authority, first to God and then to my Husband. With that in mind, I pray that God will answer you…

The story of Jephthah the Gileadite, found in Judges 11: 1-40 is indeed a very sad and difficult thing. It reflects the sinfulness of man, and does not give us an example to follow. Jephthah could not be bound by his vow to that which God had forbidden by the letter of the sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. God had forbidden human sacrifices:

Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

This statement from Gill says it very well :

Judges 11:35…”for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord”… ; (in a vow; not only had purposed it in his heart, but had expressed it with his lips): …Judges 11:35 continued…”and I cannot go back”…; (or retract it; looking upon himself under an indispensable obligation to perform it; of which, be it as it may, he seems to have had mistaken notions and apprehensions; for if his vow was to sacrifice her, as some think, he was not obliged to do it, since it was contrary to the law of God, and abominable in his sight; and besides, what was vowed to be the Lord’s, or devoted to him, might be redeemed according to the law, a female for thirty pieces of silver, Leviticus 27:2 and if the vow was to separate his daughter from the company of men, and oblige her never to marry, such a power as this parents had not allowed them over their children, according to the laws of God or of men, in the Jewish nation; and therefore, be it which it will, what he had to do was to repent of this rash vow, and humble himself before God for making it, and not add sin to sin by performing it.)

Please pray that the person who made this comment might come to the knowledge of the truth.

Lovingly in our Lord Jesus Christ,
Sarah

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
(2 Timothy 3:1-17)