The Scarlet Cord - Moriel Ministries

of legal complications the residents of this
block are paying for the sins and corruption
of the now bankrupt contractor and
the incompetence and indifference of the
municipality. The total bills could be nearly
100,000 Shekels per resident of the block,
but even after that there is no guarantee
that the building will ever be finished! This
building has become a city joke. Everyone
knows about it, but nothing is being done
and it is tragically symptomatic of the endemic
corruption and outright wickedness
that plagues local and national government
here. We covet your prayers that the Lord
bring a solution to this situation for Sister T
who is suffering greatly.
Some Observations From The Israeli
Pro-Life Conference.
In late June I attended the annual B’ad
Chaim conference in Tel Aviv. I have
known for quite some time that the abortion
rate here in Israel is shockingly high. About
1,500,000 Jewish children were murdered
by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Since the
establishment of the State of Israel, Israelis
themselves have murdered more than
2,000,000 in the womb. Abortion is used
as a regular means of contraception in the
Army here. Each girl, if she falls pregnant,
is allowed up to 2 free abortions during her
army service. I have known these things for
some time. However, because I have not
followed pro-life issues too closely what
really surprised me was the following:
Babies in Israel undergo more pre-natal
testing than anywhere else in the world. This
is in order that “defective” babies can be
screened out and disposed of before birth.
Approximately 40% of all abortions are
undergone by married women, because the
couple either feel they cannot afford, or
simply do not desire, another child.
If a couple have three children of the
same sex already, and the woman falls pregnant
with another who is found to be of the
same sex, then it is perfectly legal to abort
the baby as unwanted on grounds of gender.
In Israel it is legal to carry out abortions
almost up to the moment of birth.
Due to its horrific abortion record, Israel
is now 4,000,000 Israelis short of
the population we should have had since
1948. Precisely because of this we have
a major demographic problem vis-a-vis
Moslem Arabs, and the demographic issue
is one of the main reasons why Judea
and Samaria were ceded to the control
of the Palestinian (Terrorist) Authority.
Our national sins have found us out.
In many ways Israel is very child-friendly.
Child protection legislation is very
strong here (even corporal punishment is
illegal contributing I am sure to our ma-
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jor school and home disciplinary problem,
but that’s another story). For the most part,
children are much safer to roam the streets
than in the UK for example, where parents
are afraid to let their children out of their
sight. However that protection and friendliness
does not extend to the unborn who are
a disposable commodity.
One speaker at the conference put it this
way: Israel is an intensely hedonistic society,
taken up with quality of life rather than
the sanctification of life. Thus the intense
obsession with having a “perfect” baby,
which leads to the slaughter of so many of
our unborn, or the disposal of unwanted babies
that may intefere with a couple’s lifestyle
or financial prosperity.
A nation cannot indulge in such sins
without some adverse effect on itself. In
the film, The Pianist, a family watched
the German soldiers enter a second-floor
apartment across the street to arrest the occupants.
They saw through the window the
soldiers begin to push the Jews out of the
door towards the stairs. One man however
was in a wheelchair, so they simply shoved
him through the glass window to fall two
stories to the cobbled street below. It struck
me that the Germans, in treating the Jews
like vermin—in dehumanizing them—actually
became less than human themselves.
In like manner Israel cannot continue unrepentant
in the sin of mass murder of the
unborn without paying a terrible cost in
the loss of her own humanity. Some moral
sclerosis or induration of the heart must
and will occur. Though all sin is grievous
in the sight of God, there are certain sins
which are particularly loathsome and defiling
which will provoke him to anger more
than others. Nationally sanctioned and approved
child murder certainly falls into this
category. So the question that arises is what
will it take for us to wake up
As I ask this question I am well aware
that 10km away Hezbollah has been stockpiling
rockets since the last Lebanon War,
and evidence is coming to light that Syria
has not only been producing biological and
chemical weapons for years, but may have
inherited the WMDs that went missing from
Saddam Hussein’s regime. On our southern
border is an Egypt that is increasingly Islamic
and hostile, and we also have an Iran
that is racing to produce a nuclear bomb
that it can use to precipitate the apocalyptic
events that will usher in the “Mahdi.”
While I do not for one moment think that
the Lord will abandon us, in light of our
national sin I cannot believe that we will
escape heavy chastening at His hand. I also
cannot believe that the Lord is anything but
grieved and angry at our national conduct.
I do not say these things with any kind
of relish. There is a tendency to read about
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Last Days events with a kind of emotional
distance, as if they are to happen to someone
else. The gathering clouds and lowering
sky close to our borders remind us that
we may well be the players in this narrative
and not merely the readers of it. It is all too
easy to forget that the purpose of End Times
prophecy is not merely to increase our
knowledge or get our eschatological order
of events right (though there is most certainly
a basic order of events), but to prepare
ourselves so that we may stay the course.
We do not know for certain what events
will be unleashed upon us in the future
here. Please pray that the Lord will ready us
for whatever lies ahead, and may we plead
with Him for the nation that “in wrath He
remember mercy” (Hab.3:2), and that whatever
comes our way, we may be a light and
a voice here for the Savior of Israel.
With our blessings,
Elon and Hadas Moreh
Chris Brown, beloved husband of June
and father of Greg and another son who
resides in Australia, has been a faithful
servant of The Lord and loyal member of
the Moriel UK team working voluntarily
as a conference organiser. His long and
courageous battle against a rare malignancy
saw Chris repeatedly defy the
odds to the point of benefitting from a
radical surgical procedure at one point
that carried only an 8 percent success
rate. Yet Chris laboured on in The Lord
surviving years beyond the normal clinically
projected life expectancy due to
his faith, his faithfulness, and the power
of prayer seeing his son complete medical
studies as a physician and the birth
of two beautiful grandchildren. The
confidence in Christ and peace of Christ
that Chris continually demonstrated
throughout his health struggle was
nothing short of remarkable and an example
of Christian fortitude to others
around him. Because of his saving trust
in Jesus, our separation from Chris will of
course be but a temporary one. We do
ask prayer for his wife June and his family
during this period of bereavement
until we are all united on that great and
coming day in Jesus.
September 2012 • Moriel Quarterly 19