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End Innocent Bloodshed
Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jul 22, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: You cannot pray for God's protection of your land and shed innocent blood. If you support the shedding of innocent blood you are as guilty as the one shedding the blood. How clean are your hands?
Jeremiah 7:5-7
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. KJV
Proverbs 6:16-20
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
We cannot ask God to bless America and keep us free if we continue to shed innocent blood. Christian, if you have put other things on your agenda higher than saving innocent blood then you have helped the blood to be shed and it is on your hands as well. The Church needs to repent as much the unbeliever in that we have put health or wealth ahead of life. Christ came to bring abundant life not support abundant death. If we lose the land and freedom it will be because of the innocent blood we have shed as a nation oft supported by those who name Him Lord. Shame!
2 Kings 24:2-4
2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon. KJV
He that hath an ear let him hear. If God did that to His chosen people because of innocent blood why do we expect an exemption? Christian, the amount of witnesses that will stand up in that day is past 62 million. Will they be standing before you at the BEMA as they will at the Great White Throne for the lost? Whether it is too late for the nation to repent only God knows, but now is the time for the Church to do so.
