Manuse: We Must Repent For Spilling Innocent Blood

As the abortion debate rages following Roe v. Wade’s demise in anticipation of changes to state laws, I want to call on all of you who ostensibly call yourselves Christian or Jewish to consider some of the finer implications of the laws of God. In short: where innocent blood is spilled, judgment is coming.

It is high time for the “people of the Book” to tear down the shroud of cultural death suffocating all of us and cast off the darkness of abortion in all its forms. It is time for us to rebuke abortion advocates with humility and repentance, for in our silence we too have become complicit in this heinous evil that is staining our land with the blood of our own children. It’s also time to shine some light on the powerful industries—hungry for innocent blood—that are fueling this debate.

All of us, whether or not we have been involved in the practice of abortion, need to get down on our knees and ask for God’s mercy. If we do not do this, the Lord will bring total destruction on this land. At this point, He might anyway. Only those who are truly faithful to God in all their ways have any chance of being delivered out of a time like this. The lukewarm will be spit right out of His mouth.

Overturning Roe v. Wade was simply not enough! It’s time to outlaw the brutal and evil practice of abortion everywhere and get our minds and hearts right with the Lord. Only when the people of the Lord turn to Him in repentance is there any chance for our land to be healed of the judgments that have come upon it, as so many of us have noted from 2 Chronicles 7:14.

In so many places, Scripture talks about people passing their children through the fire as part of ancient pagan festivals that appealed to “the gods” for a more productive harvest. How is this different from the woman today who are persuaded to abort their children to benefit their “future” or their “careers” or some other related excuse used to justify what is unequivocally a selfish and unnecessary decision, when the truth is that children are “a heritage from the Lord,” and “the fruit of the womb a reward,” according to Psalm 127:3? Offering children to married couples who want them, but can’t reproduce, is a better alternative.

Sexual promiscuity is the source of temptation for most people who end the life of their own children. The problem of abortion stems from an unwillingness from so many in society to turn toward God and turn away from sin. Sin leads to death, in so many ways, but there is life for those who repent, turn toward Jesus, and “go and sin no more.” We know that marriage, reserved for one man and one woman according to Genesis 2:24, is the stable construct wherein human sexuality is a blessing for strengthening the bonds of society’s foundation and multiplying our future generations. Jesus even notes how “two become one flesh” upon the sexual union, and “what God has joined, let no man separate.” More than this, in a Godly society, we are called to put off “sexual immorality” first, according to Acts 15:20. That means our focus ought to be on strengthening the family and putting it first in society. Divorce ought not be an option for a moral people.

While sexual sin is certainly contributory to the problem of abortion, covetousness also plays a significant role. For the abortion industry in America, the legality of abortion is about creating a natural resource for novel approaches to manufacturing—from pharmaceuticals to food additives and even skin care products. We know from our debate about the COVID-19 vaccine, for instance, that aborted fetal cells were used in the process of making the vaccine. This is among the reasons so many chose not to inject themselves. Thinking they were being smart, many commentators pointed out how “anti-vaxxers” would have to avoid a long list of other drugs and even food products, because aborted fetal cells were also used in their development. In a horrifying way, the industry revealed its own heart of darkness with those arguments. Now we know that the abortion industry is a supplier of a new “natural” and “renewable resource” for so many end products that have become a part of our daily lives.

In an interview with the magazine, “Crisis Point,” Bioethicist Dr. Stacey Transancos said: “There’s a whole industry that has grown up on the other side of abortion. It’s supply and demand, it’s giving more reasons to do abortion, to use the bodies of these tiny children as, honestly, gold standard lab rats, because they’re better than rats or mice or monkeys. It’s a little tiny human body.” These fetal cell lines Transancos refers to aren’t just used for pharmaceutical research, though. Consider a statement by the skin-care company Neocutis: “A small biopsy of fetal skin was donated following a one-time medical termination and a dedicated cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments.” Does it comfort you that it’s only the replicated cells of an aborted human being that women are putting on their skin to make it look better? People are literally bathing in the innocent blood of murdered human beings to improve their appearance. Vanity doesn’t scratch the surface of the problem here. This horrifying admission is notwithstanding reports of mice, monkeys and other creatures being genetically altered to grow human tissue for research and development of products that we ingest or apply to our bodies. We are living in the “Age of Noah.”

Notwithstanding the more thorough investigation into all of this that is needed, it’s important to take a step back and recognize that “spilling innocent blood” is something God says that He hates repeatedly in Scripture. King Manasseh’s story in 2 Kings 21 is perhaps the most odious. Among several sins listed, God says the king of Judah “shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another.” Even though he later repented of this sin, God said this was the very reason he brought judgment on Judah. In 2 Kings 24:3-4, God makes it clear that He brought Judah into captivity at the hands of the Babylonians “because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.” Make a note of those last words.

Sure, that was Judah and we’re in America, but to take away any reassurance this gives you, consider Ezekiel 14, where the Lord says that when “a land” sins against Him by “persistent unfaithfulness,” he will bring judgment upon that land; namely, pestilence (disease), the sword (war), famine (lack of food and water), and the wild beasts of the earth (government oppression). That’s any land, as the context of the chapter makes clear. It should not be lost on us that we have experienced the start of this judgment in America, and we can expect more to come on account of our culture’s acceptance of the innocent blood that has been shed to benefit the prosperity of our young men and women and the several industries that are now dependent on this “renewable resource.”

How many are aware of all of this and still accept the argument that it’s better to take advantage of this “innocent blood” that was shed than allow these lives to be “wasted?” Friends, these lives have already been wasted, and now our culture offers them up as sacrifices to our idols of wealth, health, beauty and power. The Apostle Paul makes it clear in 1 Corinthians 10:21 that we have a choice to make, because “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” Lest the metaphor be lost on you, allow me to make this clear: You can’t benefit from abortion in any way shape or form and consider yourself to be a man or woman of God saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. God does not tolerate the double minded.

The apostle James writes in James 1:27: “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” What greater orphan is there than the unborn child who is unwanted by his mother or father, and what greater affliction do they face than the implements of death that abortionists use to literally tear them limb from limb? What is more worldly than using aborted fetal tissue to make us allegedly healthier or more beautiful? Isaiah tells us in 1:17: “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless…” God in His Holy habitation looks down upon the fatherless, we read in Psalm 68:5. If anyone out there thinks that God overlooks any of this, God’s Word makes it very clear that He does not, and He will not overlook any of us standing by silent, either. It’s time for this abomination to end, and for that to happen, we need all Godly men and women to stand up and say, “No more!”

Andrew J. Manuse is pastor of First Fruits Ministries, a Judeo-Christian Messianic Ministry based out of Derry, N.H. First Fruits Ministries is an affiliate of Corner Fringe Ministries of Coon Rapids, MN.