DAY 19 : The Doctrine of the Shedding of Innocent Blood
DEVOTIONAL
According to the Bible, there are four major sins that defile a land; one of those is the shedding of innocent blood.
“Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell…”
- Numbers 35:33-34 (BSB)
God hates the shedding of innocent blood.
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up discord among brothers.
- Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV, BSB)
Each land is responsible for whether innocent blood is shed in it.
Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
- Deuteronomy 19:10
Shedding the blood of innocent children brings great judgment!
…Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire…For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.…
- Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (BSB)“You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.”
- Leviticus 18:21 (BSB)Then the LORD said…“Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death…by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name…if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech…I will set my face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him…”
- Leviticus 20:1-5 (BSB, ESV)
Those who practice bloodshed will be given over to bloodshed.
“Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.”
- Ezekiel 35:6
The shedding of innocent blood brings judgment from God, opening the doors for destruction at the hands of other peoples and nations.
The LORD sent Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets. Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord’s command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done, including the shedding of innocent blood. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was not willing to forgive.
- 2 Kings 24:2-4
Over the last ten years, the Lord has been speaking to national and international intercessors about the threat of invasion of the United States, through an allied collaboration of enemies. More than a threat, the Lord spoke to intercessors that if certain nations joined forces, they would actually overpower the United States. They have been praying into this warning for at least ten years, and the likelihood of this allied collaboration is becoming greater now than ever before – it is right at our door!
Should we continue in our wicked ways, this threat could very soon become a reality! Let the reader understand though, that the true open door to this judgment is the Scriptural foundation laid above: the shedding of innocent blood opens the door for judgment from God at the hands of other peoples and nations!
Let us cry out for mercy once again – and plead the blood of Jesus over our land. For unless a better blood covers over the outcry of the shedding of innocent blood, we will not escape the judgment that is to come!
PRAYER RESPONSE:
“Father, we acknowledge that we are guilty before You in our nation. We have committed the shedding of innocent blood openly and publicly since 1973, and we cry out for mercy upon our nation! We plead a better blood - the blood of Jesus - upon the ground that has been defiled all across our land. We have sinned and are without excuse before You! ‘What can wash away our sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!’”
“Along with this washing clean of the blood of Jesus, we ask for the Spirit of repentance to fall upon the people of our nation – both in the Church and outside of it! We acknowledge that it’s not just enough to confess our past sins and to ask for your forgiveness, but that we must turn from our wicked ways from here on out – that we would no longer trample upon the blood of Jesus that has been shed for us. Let us not insult Your Spirit of grace!
“Open our eyes to see the true reality of abortion, before heaven’s eyes – that we would mourn, grieve and turn from shedding innocent blood as a nation! Let there be a massive, national awakening to the horrors of abortion and to the reality that it is not a choice, it is the murder of an innocent human life! Bring us a true awakening and repentance this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!”
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