NATURAL LAW VS UNNATURAL LAWLESSNESS. If a baby emerges alive from the birth canal after an abortion attempt, must the doctor help it to survive? A Colorado legislative committee dominated by Democrats says no. They killed a bill which would have penalized doctors who did not try to save that life. More recently, the US Senate rejected a bill that would protect such born-alive babies. failing to reach the needed 60 votes.
Value for life has fallen to a new low. Abortion advocates consider not only 16 weeks, 20 weeks, or 28 weeks as not long enough to choose to take a baby’s life. They have extended abortion rights not only to the latest term, and not only to babies partially born. Now they promote killing a fully-born child. Can we trust them to stop there? Or will they eventually justify killing older children for convenience?
What happened to our instincts to protect our young? Humans have a natural law that tells us good from evil. This began at the Fall when we broke faith with God. Eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil brought a sense of guilt.
After sin separated us from God, we could no longer hear from Him as we once did. So He wrote a natural law on our hearts. Moreover, He gave us a conscience to tell us when we had broken that law.
“For when Gentiles who do not have the Law [of Moses] do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them” (Rom 2:14-15).
Conscience bears witness to natural law
Our conscience bears witness to the law God wrote on our hearts. When we break that law, our thoughts accuse us. But when we abide by that law, our thoughts defend us. That law becomes articulate as children learn right from wrong. The Ten Commandments clearly articulated that law to the Israelites.
Other moral codes have varied somewhat. But like the Ten Commandments, just about every society has considered murder, adultery, stealing, lying, and dishonouring parents wrong (Ex. 20:12-16). Until now.
Now, murder of the helpless newborn and the feeble elderly is gaining acceptance. Dishonouring parents, even mocking fathers, has become mainstream . For instance, sitcoms often feature fathers as irrelevant buffoons.
“Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold” (Mt. 24:12). They will harden their hearts against their in-written law. They will become “hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron” (1Tim. 4:2, NIV).
The man of lawlessness is a beast
Paul says that “in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be…without self-control, brutal, haters of good…” (2 Tim. 3:1-3). They will so hate good as to call good evil, and evil good. As an example, God calls homosexuality an abomination. But many now call homosexuality good enough to teach as normal to children. Furthermore, they outlaw ministries of conversion to heterosexuality. But they applaud when a heterosexual turns to homosexuality. This implies not only that homosexuality is good, but that heterosexuality is bad.
Such a man hardens his heart to the law God wrote there, and sears his conscience. As a result, he loses his innate sense of good and evil. He becomes “brutal” (2 Tim. 3:3 above)—more a beast than a man. He becomes ripe for the rule of the Antichrist. For Scripture calls Antichrist both “the man of lawlessness” (2 Thess. 2:3) and “the beast” (36 times in the book of Revelation).
But a great end-times revival will turn many hard-hearted people back to God. That is, unless they have taken the mark of the beast.
Restoring hearts and restoring the land
“Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse” (Mal. 4:4-6).
Through this prophet, God will soften their consciences. He will “put My law within them and on their heart I will write it” (Jer. 31:33). He will restore the hearts of fathers to their children and of children to their fathers. Those places which receive this ministry of reconciliation will be blessed. But those which reject it will be cursed, and will accept the rule of the Antichrist instead.
We can participate in this ministry of reconciliation before it is too late. We do so by showing how to honour the fathers without committing the sins of the fathers. And by working “to restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages” (Isa 49:8).
We must reclaim our godly heritages from the desolations they have suffered…
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