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Hab 1:2-4 ESV O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? (3) Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. (4) So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

Last night, I was watching this 2.5 hour long documentary on abortion called Lake of Fire. I figure it’s something I’ve been taking a stance on lately and it’s worth watching something like this. The documentary is supposed to be “even handed”, and to a certain extent it is. But they spend about half of it covering Christian and Catholic vigilantism.

Anyway, regardless of the inherent spin the documentarian put in it, those are actual incidents and rationales. I kind of felt like there was a flaw in the rationale for the vigilante, however. I mean, the argument is as follows:

1. Babies are human beings from conception
2. Human beings have a right to life
3. If I kill someone in defense of a human being, it is a justified action (defending the life of another)

1. Therefore, killing an abortionist who would kill a human baby in the womb is a justified action

So these guys go out and take a shotgun to abortion doctors.

I’m not going to address this in the eyes of the law of the land. We all know that the law does not consider what these abortion doctors to do to be murder. However, as a Christian, there is a higher law that we adhere to. And when the will of God contradicts the law of the land, what should we do?

In one case, you see Daniel obeying God rather than the law of the land:

Dan 6:6-10 ESV Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever! (7) All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. (8) Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.” (9) Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction. (10) When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

So Daniel did what he thought was right before God, even though he knew that it contradicted the law of the land.

On the other hand, we have Habakkuk. He was like:

Hab 1:3-4 ESV Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. (4) So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

But God was like, “You know what Hab, you’re right. And check this out: I’ve already got something brewing. Guess what? I’m going to be sending the Chaldeans your way.”

Hab 1:7-11 ESV They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves. (8) Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour. (9) They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand. (10) At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it. (11) Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”

So Habakkuk waited for God to take care of the problem, and came to him through prayer and supplication. He didn’t start killing judges, or the destroyers, or the men of violence.

If it is justified to protect the life of the innocent from government sanctioned murderers, how then should we react when Christians are taken to concentration camps, or put on trial and executed for their beliefs? Is it justified for those men who are yet free to kill the executioners? Is this pleasing to God? Moreover, is this what we are called to do?

I do not believe so.

Another side of this question is “So what happens to those babies? Do they go to heaven or what?”. Well, if in fact those human bodies in the womb do have a soul in them, then I believe they would go to heaven. This is because we are all judged by God for the things done in the body. And we’re held to the very standard of Jesus Christ – God himself. If we are not sinless (and all have sinned), then we do not qualify to enter heaven. Even one little lie as a child when you knew that lying was wrong: that is enough. A simple dot of sin on an otherwise clean life: this is enough.

Yet the unborn do not have this sin. So if they are judged, they should be found clean, and sinless before God.

So is it a good thing that they’re murdered? I guess it depends on your perspective, for:

Gen 50:20 ESV As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

It is an evil thing that babies should be murdered. The practices of Molech are alive and well in this day in the service of selfishness.