My other blogs

May I point you to my other blogs:

Commentary on John's writings in the New Testament.
https://awesomefisherman.blogspot.com/

Commentary on Luke's writings.
https://gospeldynamics.blogspot.com/

Christmas: Roe v Wade to the Eschatological Jubilee

Christmas brings an annual remembrance of the events surrounding the birth of Christ. The slaughter of the innocents (Matthew 2:16-18), reminds us that Satan opposes God’s work with violent evil. A similar attempt to kill Moses at birth also failed in Satan’s scheme. (Exodus 1:15-2:10) In both cases, Satan sought to kill God’s deliverer while still a baby. The modern version of Satan’s infanticide is called abortion on demand, or a woman’s right to choose. 

What great deliverer threatens Satan that will arise from this generation? The next event promised in the cycle of God’s plan is the completion of the great commission. (Matthew 24:14, Mark 13:10) The only interpretation I can give to the flood tide of demonically-inspired war against unborn children is that Satan knows that this generation is destined to finally accomplish the command of Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20) This is not the work of a single tyrant seeking to exterminate possible competition for his throne, but a social consensus brought by the deception of the evil one upon the mass of unbelieving humanity.

What will this generation accomplish? Anyone born since January 22, 1973 is part of a generation that the devil fears, because in completing the great commission, the condition for “the end” that Jesus described will be met. (Matthew 24:14) The exact sequence of eschatological events has been debated endlessly, but I wish to raise the question of when these things might happen. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt approximately 80 years after Pharaoh’s slaughter of the Hebrew babies. Jesus began His ministry approximately 28 years after Herod’s slaughter of the innocents. A generation might be construed to be 30-40 years, but one Old Testament yardstick is the year of Jubilee, which culminated a Sabbath of Sabbath years. After 49 years, including a Sabbath year every seventh, the year of Jubilee observed an additional year of rest for the land. (Leviticus 25:8-16) 

God took this so seriously that when the Jews were carried off to Babylon in captivity as a result of their apostasy, God numbered the years of exile based on the Sabbath years that had not been observed by the Jews since the establishment of the kingdom. He allowed them to be captives long enough for the land to have its allotted rest. (2 Chronicles 36:21) 

What form could a Jubilee take in the context of the modern world? It does not appear to be a direct judgment and removal of those who perform the devil’s bidding by carrying out mass slaughter of infants, because in both Biblical cases those responsible had much earlier been disciplined and removed. The year of Jubilee has more to do with resetting society, with redeeming that which had gone awry: the freeing of slaves, and the return of land to its rightful family ownership. (Leviticus 25) Under the New Covenant, this could take the form of freeing those who are slaves to sin, and God’s children going to the dwelling places God has prepared for them. The marriage feast of the Lamb!