Anthony Blood, Abortion Blood, Abel's Blood, and Another Blood

Are you outraged at the Casey Anthony case? Horrified that we live in a culture where a dad couldn't have gotten away with that, but where we've accepted to an extent that mothers' murdering their children is understandable?

That great ancient dragon (Rev 12) failed, to his utter demise, to catch the only baby that ultimately mattered to him; and, in the fury of his vengeance he is no longer content to wait until they escape the womb--and many who profess Christ are defenders, advocates, accomplices, and perpetrators of this the most Satanic of works. Are we not obligated to employ all lawful means to defend these innocents?

The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves and others by resisting all thoughts and purposes, subduing all passions, and avoiding all occasions, temptations, and practices, which tend to the unjust taking away the life of any; by just defense thereof against violence, patient bearing of the hand of God, quietness of mind, cheerfulness of spirit; a sober use of meat, drink, physic, sleep, labor, and recreations; by charitable thoughts, love, compassion, meekness, gentleness, kindness; peaceable, mild and courteous speeches and behavior; forbearance, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evil; comforting and succoring the distressed, and protecting and defending the innocent. (WLC 135)

As taught throughout the Scriptures, the culpability and heinousness of the sin actually increases with the helplessness or voicelessness of the victim. Abortion is not merely the same thing as Casey Anthony. It is much, much worse. More culpable. More heinous. And more hideously crying out for and calling down of infinite wrath from God, whose white-hot holiness will wreak a continuous vengeance not merely once upon a nation in time, nor in the case of guilty individuals for a few decades, but forever and ever to unending ages with an ever-increasing acuteness and pervasiveness (2Th 1:9 n.b. 'away from' in ESV and NASB is a theologically inaccurate and exegetically unnecessary interpolation).

Now--for those of you who are implicated in this, and that would be almost every last reader of this post, please read also the only hope that is extended to you.

Although the blood of Abel--indeed hundreds of millions of Abels worldwide--cries out in perfect prosecution against our crimes, the blood of Jesus Christ cries better (Heb 12:24). Jesus Christ alone, in the history of our kind, has been innocent of blood (Rom 3:10-26). And yet in one afternoon He endured the fullness of that eternal wrath, multiplied by a multitude beyond counting of those who would believe.

It is an astonishing mystery that He who had perfect rest and delight in His Father would be seized with horror not only in the moment when He cried "My God, My God" but even prospectively, when He cried, "Father... take this cup"! The ever-blessed One, fallen to His knees, sweating as if great drops of blood, crying in anguish that He would be spared, and yet resolutely committing Himself unto whatever His Father willed Him to do (Luk 22:41-44).

He alone had no blood upon His hands. And His blood alone can cleanse your bloody hands. With Jesus, there is forgiveness with Jesus. Yea, glory of glories, with Jesus, there is even repentance. With Jesus, there is holiness. With Jesus, there is useful service unto God even now. With Jesus, there is perfect holiness and perfect happiness forever and ever to unending ages.