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Jacqueline Andrews | The Washington Stand
In 2 Kings 3, a desperate king of Moab offers his son as a burnt sacrifice to secure victory in battle. Scripture tells us, “There came great wrath against Israel,” and despite God’s promised victory, the Israelites withdrew. One man’s sacrifice of innocent blood altered the course of battle — even against the will of God.
This ancient account reveals a profound spiritual reality: shedding innocent blood carries weight in the spirit realm. It can unleash power — but also wrath.
Fast forward to America today, and you’ll find a modern altar where innocent blood is still shed. We call it abortion.
Just ask former Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who was primaried and defeated in 2020 with full backing from abortion industry giants like EMILY’s List. Or Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, nearly ousted for opposing abortion, who received little help from his own party. In 2021, in New Jersey, the Morristown Democratic Committee stripped Aaron Oliver of his chairmanship due to his anti-abortion views, demonstrating the local-level enforcement of the party’s pro-abortion orthodoxy. ?Tennessee Rep. John DeBerry Jr. was kicked off the Democratic ballot for voting pro-life. And Senator Mike McDonnell in Nebraska was censored by his local party for the same reason.
This isn’t just politics — it’s spiritual. A party that once tolerated pro-life diversity now demands absolute loyalty to abortion.
I’ve witnessed it firsthand. In 2017, I spent the whole General Assembly session lobbying all 140 members in both chambers to sponsor the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a compassionate bill to protect unborn children capable of feeling pain. I couldn’t find a single Democrat to support it — not even those who claimed to be devout Christians. Some privately acknowledged it was right to protect pain-capable children in the womb but declined support, for fear of retaliation from party leadership.
Their silence was bought. Their convictions surrendered.
Abortion, we’re told, is about freedom. Empowerment. But look closer: the women must offer their unborn children willingly, even demand it, and the men must stand by in Ahab fashion, emasculated and silenced, while others misuse and abuse the women they impregnate by abandoning them and their child. The bottom line is that an adult has willingly sacrificed their innocent offspring in exchange for perceived convenience. We have institutions entrenched in our society with the mission of deceiving and pressuring women into the mold of repeat customers from the onset of puberty in our public education systems. Our culture trains them to believe that success demands this type of sacrifice. Some celebrities and politicians openly credit their abortion for their success. This is not liberation — it’s liturgy.
Like Moab’s king, we’re sacrificing what could be for perceived temporary relief. But we forget: God’s wrath is not emotional — it is defined as the event of His just judgment. And Scripture is clear: God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6). Abel’s blood cried out from the ground (Genesis 4). The blood of millions of unborn American children cries out still.
So what must we do?
First, this is not to condemn anyone who has had or participated in an abortion decision. It is to point us all to redemption. When we open up to receive the truth, it has the power to set us free from the deception that blinded us and heal us. Jesus’s blood speaks a better word (Hebrews 12:24) over us than any human sacrifice. God is faithful and just to forgive all our sins and cleanse us when we confess them (1 John 1:9). You are not disqualified from redemption and restoration.
But we must also act. We must repent of our ways and adopt new ways.
In America’s representative form of government, “We the people” are accountable to God and to one another. If we continue to vote for those who defend the unjust “right” to shed innocent blood, then we are not merely observers of God’s wrath — we are participants.
The word “wrath” used in 2 Kings 3 first appears in the Bible in Numbers 1:53: “But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.” (Emphasis mine.)
Christ’s followers are called to be New Testament Levites. We are called to protect the testimony of God — not with silence, but with confession. “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11). I submit to my reader that the only blood sacrifice sufficient to absorb the wrath directed at us for being willing accomplices to this long injustice is the Blood of Jesus. His Blood alone overcomes all others and is the only atonement acceptable to stay God’s wrath. It is our only plea against the accuser when he rightfully accuses us for our blood-stained hands.
We must speak the truth about abortion (confession), and change our ways (repent), and thus refuse to support any party platform or candidate that champions legal abortion or remains silent in fear and compromise.
This is not about partisanship — it’s about repentance. And We the People, through every single ballot cast in every election, have a choice as to whose blood will define and speak for us as a nation.
Jacqueline Andrews, M.P.A., is a former Trump administration official and pro-life political strategist currently serving as a regional leader with TPUSA Faith, mobilizing pastors and churches across multiple states to engage culture through biblical truth and public policy.
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON STAND
