GENERAL
I would like to examine the question of
shedding innocent blood, or murder of innocent people.
In the last twenty years there seems to be a great
rise in the murder of innocent people or what seems
like innocent people. Wondering why this has happened
has set me to doing a little study. It seems that as
the years go by unprovoked, or what looks like
unprovoked, murders become more common.
As a child on a
mountain in Tennessee, we heard of murder only once.
It was a great shock to us all. Nothing like this had
ever happened in my lifetime before. It took us
children a long time to feel safe to go and come as we
had before. There were no more murders there that I
heard about, so in time, we became trusting again and
went all about alone without fear.
I have read about so
many murders in my town that I don't pay much
attention to them anymore. I do find that I stay away
from certain places and types of people. I wouldn't
just go anywhere as I did as a child. I take my
husband or someone else when I have to go to certain
areas. We have a shopping center that I almost never
go to alone because I consider it not to be safe even
in the day time.
I started to notice
a trend in our area; on the surface it seems more
women are being attacked and/or murdered than in years
past. I have often wondered why. I think we can find
some answers in the Bible.
I have a new Bible
which I have started to read from beginning to end,
marking all of God's words in red. I came upon this
verse, which I will have to admit, never registered
with me before. Genesis 9:6, Whosoever sheds men's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the
image of God He made man. Since God created man in His
image we should respect that which God gave honor to
and not deface God's image, by unjustly killing a
person. There is a law for killing by those who plan
and carry out murder. There is a curse on those
magistrates who do not punish murders, Rom. 13:4.
The first account of
innocent blood being shed in the Bible is in Gen. 4.
The brothers Cain and Able have both offered sacrifice
to God but only Able's is accepted. Cain becomes
exceedingly angry and indignant. V.6, And the Lord
said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why do you look
sad and dejected? V.7, If you do well, will you not be
accepted? And if you do not well, sin crouches at your
door; its desire is for you, and you must master it.
Cain lets anger,
rage, hate, jealousy take hold of him. Instead of
repenting of disobedience to God's instruction
concerning sacrifices, he decides to destroy the
object of his anger. He murders his brother, hides the
body, and pretends he doesn't know anything about it.
God is not deceived
by this act, neither is the Devil. For God looks into
Cain's heart and sees all the evil there. Cain could
have confessed his sin but he did not, instead he
lies. V.11 contains his sentence. And now you are
cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its
mouth to receive you brother's [shed] blood from your
hand. V.12, When you till the ground, it shall no
longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a
vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded
outcast]. Even at this point Cain could have repented
and been forgiven, but he would not. In fact, he was
telling God that God would have to accept him because
of his fine gift. There is nothing we can offer God
fine enough to cause Him to accept us. It is only by
accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour and afterward living
by God's directions that we can be acceptable to God.
Cain began to tell God about the harshness of his
sentence. In the light of his murder of his brother,
this attitude shows his opposition to God's laws. He
should have considered his sentence light compared to
the sentence he deserved.
See these scriptures
on shedding innocent blood: Ex. 23:7, Keep very far
from a false matter and [be very careful] not to
condemn to death the innocent and the righteous, for I
will not justify and acquit the wicked.
Deut. 19:10, Lest
innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord
your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood
guilt be upon you.
In the verses just
before this one, God is setting up cities of refuge
for those who accidentally kill another. God did not
want the avenger of blood to kill while he was hot
with anger. (If the avenger killed one who had
accidentally killed, then the avenger would be guilty
of shedding innocent blood.) The one who had
accidently killed another could stay in the city of
refuge until the elders of his city could determine if
he was guilty of hating and planning to kill. If it
was certain that he hated and planned to kill, then
they would go into the city of refuge and bring him
out and slay him.
Why do this? V.13,
Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear
Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may be
well with you.
This is the
provision for redeeming the land where one is found
murdered and no one knows who did the murder. Deut.
21:1-9, If one is found slain in open land, then the
city nearest to the body shall bring a heifer to a
valley never sown, break it's neck, and there all the
men from the city would wash their hands and say
whether they had seen the murder or done it.
V.8, Forgive, O
Lord, Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and
do not allow the shedding of innocent blood to be
charged to Your people Israel. And the guilt of the
blood shall be forgiven them. V.9, So shall you purge
the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you
do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Deut. 27:24, Cursed
is he who slays his neighbor secretly. All the people
shall say, Amen. Even if you should never get caught,
you and your descendents will be under a curse and
will be hunted by others and be killed. The Devil will
never leave you and your descendents alone until you
repent of your sins, accept Jesus as Saviour, break
the curses on the family line, cast out the demons,
and live according to the Bible thereafter. If you or
you children sin in this manner later, the curse will
return.
Deut. 27:25, Cursed
is he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person,
all the people shall say, Amen. This will include all
parties participating in abortion of unborn children:
the father, mother, doctor, nurses and all others who
agree to the abortion. It includes those who are
bribed to lie or kill, and judges who accept bribes to
cancel sentences or give light sentences to those who
have committed murder or have lied to protect the
guilty.
I Sam. 19:5, Saul
had ordered David slain but Jonathan attempted to
persuade Saul to stop before he shed innocent blood.
Why was Jonathan concerned? We will see soon that the
curse for shedding innocent blood would effect
Jonathan and all Saul's descendents, especially the
males.
II Kings 21:16,
Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood,
filling Jerusalem from one end to the other--besides
his sin in making Judah sin, by doing evil in the
sight of the Lord! (II Chron. 33:1-10) He burned his
children as an offering to his god in the valley of
Ben-hinnom.
Manasseh, evil son
of good Hezekiah, not only worshiped other gods but he
put their images in God's Temple. Children were gifts
from God given by Him to parents who then turned and
killed them, and sacrificed them to demons. This was a
terrible affront to God, a great rebellion, and a
terrible sin which brings curses for many generations,
possible forever, on a family line. It takes sincere
repentance for these sins of self and/or ancestors.
II Kings 24:2-4, The
Lord sent against Jehoiakim bands of Chaldeans, of
Syrians, of Moabites and of Ammonites. And He sent
them to Judah to destroy it, according to the word of
the Lord which He spoke by His prophets. Surely this
came upon Judah at the commandant of the Lord, to
remove them out of His sight because of the sins of
Manasseh according to all the sins he had done, And
also for the innocent blood that he shed. For he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord
would not pardon.
Jehoiakim was a
descendent of Manasseh; the sins of his father he did
plus he received the punishment and curses of his
father. Good King Hezekiah prayed to not die, God
heard him, and he proceeded to give Israel the worse
king it had had so far. [Read of ten tragic results
from God giving Hezekiah what he wanted so badly, II
Kings 20:18; 21:1, 3-4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 20.] It was good
that Hezekiah prayed earnestly but at the end of
giving his desire list to God, he should have
submitted himself to God's plan.
Josiah, son of
Manasseh, did right in the sight of the Lord and God
stayed His wrath until Josiah died. But Manasseh's
grandson, Jehoiakim, followed after Manasseh and great
was the destruction on Judah.
There is a good
possibility we would never have heard of
Nebuchadnezzar, if it had not been for the Kings of
Judah going after other gods and shedding innocent
blood. God appointed him to be king, and to take into
captivity all of Judah and the rest of the known
world.
I Kings 21-22 and II
Kings 10, You will see an example of the results of
shedding innocent blood on Ahab's household. Ahab
wanted to have the vineyard of Naboth. Naboth refused
to sell. Ahab came into his house, jumped into bed,
whined around and pouted until he manipulated Jezebel
to solve his problem. She had Naboth framed and
killed. God issued the results of that curse. V.19, To
Ahab; where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall
they also lick your blood. V.21, To Ahab's sons: I
will bring evil on you and utterly sweep away and cut
off from Ahab every male, bond and free. V.23, To
Jezebel: the dogs will eat Jezebel by the wall of
Jezreel. All these things happened just as God said.
Ps. 10:8, In this
chapter we get a good picture of the wicked person who
plots and plans murder of innocents. He is greedy,
full of pride, persecutes the poor, spurns, renounces
and despises the Lord, refuses to heed God's
instructions and warnings, thinks he will never be
punished, his ways are grievous, he believes he will
never have adversity or want, his mouth is full of
cursing, deceit, oppression and fraud, trouble and sin
are under his tongue, and he ambushes and slays the
poor and innocent.
Ps. 15:5 tells us
that those who will take a bribe to slay the innocent
will not dwell in the tabernacle and in God's Holy
Hill.
Ps. 94:21, There are
those who band together to condemn the innocent to
death, but the Lord will turn their own iniquity back
upon them.
Ps. 106:36-42, And
served their idols, which were a snare to them. Yes,,
they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to
demons, [II Kings 16:3.]. And shed innocent blood,
even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom
they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land
was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled by
their own works, and played the harlot and practiced
idolatry with their own deeds of idolatrous rites.
Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against
His people, insomuch that He abhorred and rejected His
own heritage, [Deut. 32:17]. And He gave them into the
hand of the heathen nations, and they that hated them
ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under the hand
of their foes.
Pro. 6:17-19, (six
things the Lord hates) A proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that
manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are
swift in running to evil, A false witness who breaths
out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord
among the brethren.
Isa. 59:7-8, Their
feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent
blood; their thoughts are thoughts are of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their paths and
highways. The way of peace they know not, and there is
no justice or right in their goings; they have made
them crooked paths; whoever goes in them knows not
peace.
Jer.2:34, This is a
good chapter to read completely. God, through the
prophets, is telling the history of sin to these
people. He reminds them that He brought them out of
Egypt and set them free. They have forgotten all His
care and provisions in the wilderness, and being
brought into a lane of plenty. Not even the priests
ask for the Lord. The rulers transgressed against God,
and the prophets prophesied by the authority of and in
the name of Baal. Then God tells them what they are
like and what will come upon them. He likens them to
restless females in heat looking for a male. In verses
35-37 He explains how vain and hopeless their worship
of idols is, and what destruction they have brought
upon themselves.
In their idol
worship they burn their babies and sacrifice their
children; they also kill the innocent poor. V.34 tells
them they have done these things because of their lust
for idolatry.
One thing we have
learned in deliverance sessions; those people who get
into the occult, drugs or sex have a very difficult
time giving their old activities up. After much prayer
and Bible study, it has become evident that since
these are all activities carried on in idol or Satan
worship, the demons will really work on these people
to get back in. It is far better and safer to leave
idol and Satan worship out of you life. This means no
sex before marriage, no desiring forbidden knowledge,
no flirting with the occult, no use of illegal drugs,
and no worship of anyone as Lord except Jesus Christ.
Jer. 19:4-9, Because
the people have forsaken Me, and have estranged and
profaned this place [Jerusalem], by burning incense in
it to other gods that neither they nor their fathers
nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they
have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their
sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I
commanded not, nor spoke it, nor did it come into My
mind or heart; Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called
Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley
of Slaughter. I will cause their people to fall by the
sword of their enemies, and by the hand of those who
seek their life; and their dead bodies will I give to
be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of
the earth. I will make this city to be an astonishment
and a horror and a hissing; I will cause them to eat
the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and
neighbors because of the distress of their life.
This group of verses
should serve to warn us in America of much horror,
sadness and distress ahead. I try to imagine what
terror a baby goes through when it is murdered. It can
be nothing but murder. We can see how far we have
fallen when we pick to murder those who are unable to
do anything to defend themselves. See also Jer.
22:3,17; 26:15.
Eze. 13 tells us
about people who are occult taking bribes to keep
alive those who should die, and to kill those who
should live. God says in verse 23 that He will deliver
His people out of their hand. In Chapter 14, God
explains what He will do to those who worship idols
and still come around asking for God's advice. He will
be cut off from the midst of My people. God says that
when the land sins (which is like our law allowing and
financing abortion), He will stretch out His hand
against it and cut off their bread, send famine, and
cut off from it man and beast. And that even if Noah,
Daniel and Job were in that land, they could save only
themselves by their own uprightness. You and I will
stand before God on our own record and will not be
able to make claims of rightness because of what our
families have done.
Matt. 27:4, When
Judas saw that Jesus was condemned to be killed; his
remorse was little more than a selfish dread of the
consequences of betraying innocent blood. It looks
like Judas didn't have the courage to face his friends
after betraying Jesus. I'm sure he knew what he had
done.
Matt. 27:24, Even
Pilot wanted everyone to know he was not responsible
for the innocent blood of Jesus. V.25, Then answered
all the people, and said His blood be on us, and on
our children. Once when we were working in deliverance
with a person of Hebrew blood inheritance, we were
impressed to have them repent for this curse and break
it. They then began to shake and tremble violently.
When they were free of these spirits, the shaking
stopped.
From all this
scripture we have learned: it is a very severe thing
to take the life of any human being. It is most severe
to take the life of the innocent, the unborn or the
poor. To murder the unborn in a attempt to cover other
sins only gets a person in more trouble that having
the child.
We have seen how
rebellion, hate, envy, jealousy grow extremely
rapidly. The Bible tells us to obey the instructions
of God quickly and enthusiastically. Quickly forgive
others, repent of rebellion and quickly correct any
errors in your thinking.
Have you seen
families or a person that seemed to never belong,
never be able to make enough money to take care of
themselves, let alone their families, families who
seemed to always be despised in the neighborhood,
those who work and make plenty of money but never seen
to have enough, those who never seem to be able to
come to Jesus, those who stay in their idolatry and
witchcraft even when it is obvious they are gaining
nothing but are being damned, etc.?
There will be
judgement coming on our land for the guilt of all the
innocent blood that has been shed on our soil. These
are some of the consequences we can expect: all the
above and all those things we read about happening to
the Old Testament people.
There must be
sincere and deep repentance for the agreement to or
the act of murder of innocents. If you give consent to
abortion, you are also guilty. When Daniel asked God
to forgive the sins of his nation, he used the terms
us not them. Maybe we should do that too.
GENE'S
COMMENTS
This lesson was written by Earline. I would
like to add some comments. It is very clear that those
participating in sexual sins (which lead to pregnancy)
and then a decision is made to have an abortion are
committing murder. The murder of an innocent child
then opens the parents to demon attacks of being
murdered or having violence committed against them.
A couple that does
not want a child should use birth control methods that
prevent pregnancy. This is better than having an
abortion of an unwanted child. Single parents should
not deliberately have children outside of marriage.
They are cursed and their child is cursed.
After having an
abortion, the woman is subject to having miscarriages
or not being able to get pregnant again. She may have
painful and prolonged bleeding and pain during her
menstrual cycles. She is subjected to many cruel
emotions such as paranoia and insecurity.
Rape can lead to
pregnancy. Do you have a right before God to kill the
child because you were raped? Soul ties should be
broken with any sexual partners outside of marriage
whether by rape or by sexual consent.
The church is
drastically affected by the bastard which is a child
conceived out of wedlock. The bastards have great
difficulty in going to church and participating in the
church services. Those who have sexual demons may act
religious in church to cover their guilt about their
sexual sins.
PRAYER
Dear Father in Heaven, we have read and
learned today that there are curses that fall on
individuals, families, races and on nations for the
sin of shedding innocent blood. Learning that this is
a curse that travels down the family line, I have no
way of knowing what has gone on before me, I do now
ask for forgiveness for myself and those before me who
may have sinned against you and others by shedding
innocent blood. We have greatly erred in shedding
innocent blood in the United States, Lord forgive us
this terrible sin and redeem us from quilt and cleanse
the land.
Father, I repent of
having become involved in acts that show worship and
obedience to the Devil and his demons. I repent of all
occult acts: worship, drugs, sex, thievery, murder,
etc. I break all soul ties with others that I
practiced these acts with. I do this in the name of
Jesus Christ my Lord.
Father, because you
have given us power over all the power of the Devil, I
break this curse of shedding innocent blood off of my
family and my descendents in the name of Jesus Christ.
I also break curses of idol worship, Satanism, illicit
sex in Jesus name.
Father, You have
said that if I call on the name of the Lord I can be
delivered. I do now call upon the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ to set me free. I thank you Jesus for all
you have done for me. I commit my life to you in a
greater way today than I have before. Please instruct
me and help me to correct my life and bring it into
subjection to You. I pray this prayer in the name of
Jesus Christ, God's son. Amen.
LIST OF
DEMONS TO CAST OUT IN THE NAME OF JESUS
Related lists of
demons include: Bastards, Effeminacy - Sins of Sodom,
Rape, Sexual Harassment - Abuse - Assault - Violence,
and Sexual Sin and Diseases which can be found in Mass
Deliverance Manual.
We
come against all demons associated with:
shedding innocent blood, murder of innocent people,
and sacrificing children to demons and idols of sex.
We come against all demons associated with:
anger, sadness, dejection, against
spirits of rage, hate, envy, jealousy, pretense,
lying, killing, rebellion, falseness, bribery, Jezebel
and Ahab, greed, pride, cursing, oppression, Baal and
other deceit, fraud, sexual idols, lust, combination
of occult, sex, seeking forbidden illicit drugs and
knowledge, burning incense, worship of sex,
cowardliness, idolatry, terror, witchcraft, thievery,
murder, Satanism and all other demon families.
We come against Asmodeous and
all other marriage breaking spirits.