Shiphrah And Puah Series

PROLOGUE:

The cries of labor echoed through the mud-brick corridors of Egypt.

Israelite women, wide with promise, clung to their beds while the future thrashed in their wombs.

But Pharaoh, hungry for control and drunk on fear, issued a decree:

“If it is a son, you shall kill him.”

The words hissed like venom from the mouth of the serpent king.

And who stood in the path of this demonic edict?

I. “HANDS THAT WOULD NOT KILL: The Midwives of Light in a Culture of Death”

Two midwives.

Two women with nothing but calloused hands, moral backbone, and reverent hearts.

Shiphrah.

Puah.

Names nearly lost in history—but not in Heaven.

These were deliverers of the deliverers, protectors of the promised, guardians of the seed line that would birth a nation and, generations later, the Messiah Himself.

They stood where fear demanded silence, and spoke.

They stood where tyranny demanded blood, and withheld the blade.

They stood in a culture that said, “Comply or die,” and answered with sacred defiance.

“But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them.”

— Exodus 1:17

And Heaven saw them.

And Heaven smiled.

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II. MODERN MIDWIVES OF CONSCIENCE

Flash forward.

Sterile hospital rooms.

Digital monitors.

Bright fluorescent lights flickering above the silent execution of innocents.

Today, the cry is more clinical. More bureaucratic. More “progressive.”

But the demand is the same:

“If it is unwanted, you shall kill it.”

“If it is inconvenient, you shall terminate it.”

“If you want to keep your job, you will not refuse the procedure.”

But like Shiphrah and Puah, some have dared to say no.

🩺 The Christian nurse in New York, suspended after refusing to assist in a late-term abortion.

🩺 The medical student in the UK, penalized for citing the Hippocratic Oath—“I shall do no harm.”

🩺 The rural doctor in Canada, stripped of privileges for refusing to refer patients for euthanasia.

🩺 The pharmacist in Washington, sued for not dispensing abortion pills.

They were told,

“Bow to Pharaoh—or be cast out.”

They answered,

“We fear God more than man.”

And Heaven saw them.

And Heaven smiled.

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III. A STAND THAT COSTS—AND COUNTS

What made Shiphrah and Puah so dangerous?

It wasn’t weapons.

It wasn’t influence.

It was this:

They refused to participate in a culture of death.

They didn’t march.

They didn’t shout.

They simply withheld their hands—and by doing so, shamed a kingdom.

This is the moral earthquake Pharaoh never anticipated:

Quiet, defiant righteousness.

No compromise.

No calculation.

No cowardice.

Just holy fear and unflinching fidelity.

They said, in effect:

“If I must lose position, so be it.

If I must lose income, so be it.

If I must lose everything but God—then I will have lost nothing at all.”

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IV. THE CALL TO THE 21ST CENTURY SAINT

Shiphrah and Puah have passed the torch.

Now we are the midwives of conscience.

We are the ones in the birthing room of history, standing between the innocent and the machinery of moral decay.

Are you ready to stand—cost be damned?

Here are just a few of the Pharaohs that 21st-century believers will face:

🔹 The Corporate Mandate

“Use your platform to affirm what we affirm, or be canceled.”

🔹 The Education Agenda

“Teach what the curriculum says about gender, truth, and family—or resign.”

🔹 The Healthcare Crisis

“Refer, inject, prescribe, approve—even if it violates your soul.”

🔹 The Legal Assault

“Bake the cake. Sign the certificate. Celebrate what God calls sin—or face litigation.”

🔹 The Social Media Tribunal

“Silence your witness. Water down your faith. Or lose the algorithm, your job, and your reputation.”

Are you ready?

When your name is called, will you be like Shiphrah and Puah?

Will you fear God over policy?

Conviction over convenience?

Holiness over harmony?

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V. AND GOD BLESSED THEM

“Therefore God dealt well with the midwives... and made them houses.”

— Exodus 1:20–21

Heaven wrote them into the eternal record.

God honored them with legacy—because they honored life.

They weren’t building Pharaoh’s pyramids.

They were building a future.

And so are you.

Every time you say “no” to unrighteousness,

you are saying “yes” to Heaven.

And Heaven will not forget.

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EPILOGUE

May it be said of you, of us,

“They feared God, and would not do as the king commanded.”

May your stand become a cathedral of courage for the next generation.

May your name—though small to the world—be engraved on Heaven’s honor roll.

“Go ahead,” says the Lord.

Shake the gates of Hell with quiet obedience.

Lay down comfort and take up conviction.

I will remember you. I will make you a house.”

Because one day, when the records are opened, and names are called,

Pharaoh’s words will be dust.

But yours—like Shiphrah and Puah—will shine like stars.