“Now there arose up a new king over Egypt,
which knew not Joseph.
And he said unto his people,
Behold, the people of the children of Israel
are more and mightier than we:
Come on, let us deal wisely with them:
lest they multiply and it come to pass, that,
when there falleth out any war,
they join also unto our enemies,
and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land…
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.
And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
— Exodus 1:8-12
There is no new thing under the sun [1]. Here we see a primitive attempt at population control and eugenics long before Darwin. Invoking wisdom, the king of Egypt became a fool and made God his enemy. Affliction purified and multiplied the visible Old Covenant church to the point that Pharaoh decides to resort to infanticide to curb the swelling population of the Hebrews. God returned this bloody edict onto Egypt’s own head in the final plague – death to every firstborn male in the land of Egypt from the richest to the poorest and even their livestock as well.
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We should be instructed and warned from the Exodus account not to enact any law or edict that calls for the murder of anyone, especially children and the pre-born. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men [2], but he takes special concern for the most vulnerable in society who lack any other source of protection – the widows, foreigners, and the fatherless. God says to the people from Sinai:
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me,
I will surely hear their cry: And my wrath shall wax hot,
and I will kill you with the sword;
and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless [3].
We also know that this concern for children and the fatherless extends to the preborn because God’s law requires life for life [4] when someone’s actions injure a pregnant woman and cause her to miscarry and the child dies.
China is reaping the whirlwind for its decades of forced abortion and sterilizations that occurred under the “one-child policy.” There is a huge imbalance in the ratio of females to males and its population is now in free-fall. If world war or global famine do not break the Chi-com regime, population collapse will. “In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.” — Proverbs 14:28
China certainly is not the only country with a demographic problem. Birthrates are falling all over the world due to many cultural and biological factors - the chiefest of which is rejection of a Biblical moral code and social contract. We should be skeptical of the narrative that children are burdensome to the environment or that there is a “right” number of children to have. Our business when it comes to these things should be that life is sacred and children are a blessing. Male, female, young, or old all are made in the image of God.
Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the way,
when his wrath is kindled but a little.”
— Psalm 2:10-12
Scriptures:
1 Ecc 1:9
2Rom 1:18
3Ex 22:21-24
4Ex 21:23
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