Colin Parkinson
Some people have claimed that certain events such as the Holocaust did not happen.
Now we are starting to have questions about more recent events such as reports of the beheading of babies in Israel. There have been rumours going around trying to discredit this event. I have seen comments even on the BFD asking to see the evidence that the babies had been decapitated.
Please watch the following interview with a reporter from Israel explaining what she saw and the first-hand reports she has received:
She has stated that the Israeli Foreign Ministry has now released some images and questions why people needed to see these before believing; highlighting that “this is a dismembered child we are talking about”. It may turn out that the babies’ heads were not “cut off”, but does it really make a difference if the child’s head was cut off, shot off, or blown off by an explosion?
The host pointed out, “As though killing 40 babies in some other form would be ever acceptable in any way.”
Seriously! Babies are dead, murdered in front of their loved ones and people want to argue semantics?
This was a terrible slaughter of a Jewish Kibbutz community. Families have lost their loved ones. The weak and defenceless were the targets. Who can ever console those left behind?
This brings to mind a passage from the Bible when Herod killed all the boys in Bethlehem who were under three years old:
A voice was heard in Ramah…Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.
– Paraphrased from Matthew 2:18.
Matthew appears to have been quoting Jeremiah 31:15.
The rest of chapter 31 in Jeremiah is a message of hope – even of a new covenant.
Israel must remember that her hope is in God. He has brought her out from many troubles in the past and now is the time for Israel to look to God again.
I ask Christian readers to pray for Israel and the surrounding nations. Pray that they would turn to God and to Jesus Christ His Son, the promised Messiah and that all would understand what it means to love their neighbours – even their enemies. Pray for those who have lost loved ones, that “Rachel” would be comforted somehow.
