HE DESIRES GODLY OFFSPRING

God cares intensely about the fruit of the womb:

·       Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV;)

God also informed Israel that He had “formed you from the womb” (Isaiah 44:2). These verses, along with many others, signify that the pre-born is not simply our possession or even the mother’s possession. The pre-born is certainly more than a collection of cells or an unwanted mass, as pro-abortionists maintain.

Instead, God has an intimate connection with the fruit of the womb:

·       Did he not make them [husband and wife] one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.” (Malachi 2:15-16)

According to the Prophet Malachi, there was a reason that God had brought man and woman together to consecrate their union – He was seeking “Godly offspring.” Therefore, when we divorce, we violate God’s plan and sin. When we abort this offspring, we murder the one whom God had been seeking.

In light of this, there is no reason not to regard abortion in the same way as murder proscribed in the Ten Commandments. Nevertheless, our God is gloriously merciful.