It’s a well-known fact that many women suffer from mental anxiety for years after they have had an abortion. Some never get over it. The thought of having put to death the life that was developing within themselves is difficult to handle. And while it’s less well-known, even some men feel great remorse for having put a woman in such a position.
One has to wonder – is there any hope for the 40 million children who have been aborted in this country since Roe v. Wade? Will they ever see the light of day and know the life they were intended to live? Few, including most professing Christians, seem to understand the meaning behind the second resurrection that’s mentioned in Chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation:
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. (v. 5)
Who will come up in this resurrection? Could this resurrection include the millions of aborted babies? The innocent unborn who never got their chance at salvation? The ones who were killed, cut off without a cause? Of course it could. That’s the kind of God who created us.
In this life we may never know what potential we have destroyed by allowing abortion to persist. People cry out for cancer cures, for a cure for AIDS. Has anyone bothered to think that maybe the one who could have found these cures has been lost to us through abortion? In the life to come, we will be made painfully aware of the great potential we chose to abort. But there will be another chance.
There’s an old spiritual song that goes the leg bones connected to the hip bone. You know it. You’ve heard it before. Where did the inspiration for that song come from? The book of Ezekiel, in Chapter 37. Read the whole chapter for yourself. Ezekiel comes to a valley full of dried human bones, and the bones start to rattle and shake.
Suddenly they begin to click together, and then sinew starts to wrap around the bones, and then the flesh appears.
Imagine yourself as Ezekiel, standing in this valley of dry bones. Whom would you like to see come alive again? God asked Ezekiel, Son of man, can these bones live? Can God take what seems to be nothing and put it all back together again? The ones we have laid to rest in sorrow, the ones we have destroyed in our ignorance, will the grave ever bring us joy? God answers the question in a very profound way:
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. Ezek. (37:13-14)
It is a stunning fact to consider the resurrection of the dead. If life begins at the moment of conception, then all 40 million aborted babies will be given a chance at living again! And who would be best fitted to rear these babies? The biological mothers and fathers themselves, of course.
Let’s take a time machine into the not-so-distant future. The Kingdom of God is on this earth, perfection reigns, the second resurrection takes place. Whom you perceive to be just an ordinary woman takes you to the biggest orphanage you’ve ever seen. Room after room, thousands, no millions of precious little babies are lovingly being taken care of. As you walk down the long hall you notice the rooms are alphabetically in order. You come to a room that includes your last name written on the door. The woman who is leading you appears to be angelic, she picks up a child and says, "This one is yours."
By David Freeman
