FOUNDATION SACRIFICES

By David J. Stewart

 

Recently I was studying the religion of the Canaanites, and stumbled across an interesting fact in Halley’s Bible Handbook concerning a pagan practice known as “foundation sacrifices” …

 

“Under the debris, in this ‘High Place,’ Macalister found great number of jars containing the remains of children who had been sacrificed to Baal. The whole area proved to be a cemetery for new-born babes.

 

Another horrible practice was that they called ‘foundation sacrifices.’ When a house was built, a child would be sacrificed, and its body built into the wall, to bring good luck to the rest of the family. Many of these were found in Gezer. They have been found also at Megiddo, Jericho and other places.”

 

SOURCE: Halley’s Bible Handbook, by Henry H. Halley; Joshua, Chapters 23,24, pg. 166; 1965 Edition

 

I couldn’t help but recognize the alarming similarities between the Canaanites and Americans today:

 

1. Just as the wicked Canaanites, Americans are sacrificing their children to a false god. The Canaanites sacrificed their babies to Baal (their principal god), and to Ashtoreth (Baal’s wife); whereas, American’s are sacrificing their children on the alter of convenience to the god of self.
    
2. Just as the Canaanites stored in jars the remains of children who had been sacrificed to Baal, so do Americans store the remains of aborted children in plastic containers (and the body parts and tissues are sold). 
    
3. Just as the Canaanites who sacrificed their children, having good intentions (i.e., to bring good luck to the rest of the family), so do Americans justify the murdering of children with good intentions (e.g., "I'll abort this child so I can have a career and make a better life for my other children in the future"). This is the sicko mentality of many women today.  Most people don’t do what they do for any particular reason.  They do what they WANT to do, and then look for reasons to justify it.  There is no justification for taking an innocent child's life.  A child inconveniencing it's mother shouldn't be a crime punishable by death.

 

Abortion is a horrible sin, which God hates.  Just as Abel's blood cried out to God from the ground (Genesis 4:10), so does the blood of millions of aborted children in America cry out to God from the grave.  Americans are no better than the savage Caananites.  We place our own selfish will over God's Will, and our own law over God's Law.  This is sin. 

America's entire legal system centers around the preeminence of it's "Supreme" Courts.  Tragically, most of those judges rule in favor of abortion, same-sex marriage, pornography, and other evils condemned by the Bible.  Arguably, their ability to judge righteously is questionable.  When the Highest Court of a nation sides against God, by ruling in favor of abortion and same-sex marriage, that nation is DOOMED!

Abortion is Murder!