By Jenni Campbell
Contributor
The brutal murder of a child is a devastatingly barbarous act, diminishing hopes and aspirations, shredding the fabric of a family, and dismantling the future of any nation. Worse than all of this, it is outright rebellion against the will of God, and the consequences are dire.
Children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward. The enemy of God knows that children carry the destinies, gifts, blessings or curses from one generation to the next. They preserve the bloodlines and customs of a family.
When children die, the transition of the bloodline and innate traditions is cruelly disrupted.
In this October month, Satan and his minions have stepped up their game to ensure perennial bloodline disruptions. For quite some time, they have been using this tenth month to market evil to the children as fun, festive, fashionable, and desirable. They have strategically engaged lost souls – in homes, schools, communities, businesses, governments, and even churches—to celebrate duppies, dark deeds, ghouls, witches, and warlocks under their Halloween banner.
The primary target of the enemy is the blood of the innocent, whether in or outside of the womb. So, children are lured into dressing up in scary costumes and being bribed with sweets, tricks, and treats, as the Satanic manifesto is powered up and enforced against their very lives.
Satan is well advanced in his soul harvest from this cryptic blood fest to fuel his worldwide evil operations.
ShootingTracker.com, an online data collection platform, suggests that in the United States, the majority of mass shootings in schools occurred between the months of May and October, with a noted peak in September and October.
In Jamaica, the return to school in September usually brings some troublesome incidents for our children, and as in the United States, there seems to be a peak towards October.
The enemy knows that a strategic attack against children is equal to, if not greater than dropping bombs or shooting cannons to conquer any people.
Spiritually, the enemy is determined to destroy Jamaica by systematically bringing down families, eliminating future mighty men and women of God who are chosen, even before conception, to be the salt and light of the earth. In this mission, he has solicited, signed, and sealed an army of lost souls – including hardened criminals, persons who are involved in the occult, along with those who worship man or money. Many of these lost souls are fully commissioned and activated in government, across communities, in homes, schools, at school gates, and even within churches.
Wickedness against children is not new. It is well documented in the Scriptures. Insecure kings, scared of losing their status, murdered babies to protect their thrones.
Pharaoh, in Exodus, decreed that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into the Nile because he feared that they could become too powerful.
Innocent children were also massacred when Herod, king of Judea, tried to eliminate the newly born King Jesus. He ordered the execution of all male children who were two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
The deaths of children can also signal the full-blown judgement of a nation. God judged Egypt by eliminating its firstborn sons. In Exodus 11, God decided to kill all the first-born sons as He brought one more plague against that nation.
The concentrated attack on the nation’s children, especially over the past few weeks, must be understood for what it is. Coming from every direction, the attacks signal that our children are not guaranteed safety at school, at home, in communities, and on the roadways.
Children have died in fires in their homes; they are raped and murdered in their communities; they are mauled by other children at school. More than 60 students from one school had to be rushed to the hospital after they bought and consumed drug-infused sweets.
A house on a hillside collapsed and crushed to death a two-month-old baby in rural St. Andrew, while another baby in Trelawny was abandoned and left to die along the roadway by its parents. All of this in a single week.
As the nation was trying to grapple with these incidents, we learnt that the burnt remains of a mother and child who had gone missing for weeks were discovered in East Kingston.
However, we choose to see these attacks on Jamaica’s children as unimportant.
The government has no solution to stem the flow of blood. Their tepid condemnations of the attacks on our children lack sincerity and changes nothing.
Their continued resistance to the call for three consecutive days of national mourning, prayer, and repentance so that the land can be healed has allied them with Satan and his forces.
It is time for the nation to wake up and face the fact that only the efficacious blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, can turn this shipwreck around.