THE PROGRESSION OF CALLOUSNESS

                                                           Exodus 1:7-22 KJV

Pharaoh feared the Israelites because they were becoming more numerous than the Egyptians and could join with some outside force to defeat Egypt and find freedom for themselves. So Pharaoh issued orders that the Israelite midwives should kill all newborn Hebrew males in order to keep the Israeli population down. The midwives got around Pharaoh's order by claiming that the Hebrew women habitually gave birth before the midwives could get to them.

Pharaoh's first order demonstrated that he cared nothing for the lives of the Hebrew male babies, but at least his order allowed the families of these dead babies to bury them with religious ceremony and dignity. But when his plan was thwarted by the subterfuge of the midwives, Pharaoh's heart became colder and harder. He then ordered his own people that whenever they saw a male Hebrew baby, they should immediately simply throw it into the Nile river. They should throw the baby into the river as if it were nothing. Simply kill it and get it out of our way.

A similar progression of callousness has happened in the world's abortion systems. At first, babies could only be killed if they were less than three months old in the womb. Now, babies are routinely murdered even after they are born, and their bodies are simply thrown away as if they were nothing. They are murdered for no other reason than that they got in somebody's way. They are an inconvenience to someone.

This progression of callousness comes from the Devil himself. It is an example of the way that evil always operates. When an evil system starts, as time goes by, it causes hearts to become colder and harder. Babies are murdered now, but in the future, old people will be killed because they have become an inconvenience to society. In time, the infirm and the mentally retarded will be next. In more time, those who stand against evil and for the value of human life will be next. Remember this, one of the reasons the Nazis hated the Jews and Christians so much was because these religions placed such great value on human life.