Missing: Millions of Contributors Who Could Have Made a Significant Difference!
Missing:
Millions of Contributors Who Could Have
Made a Significant Difference!



In the first century there was a church identified as Laodicea which was located in present day Turkey. It was one of seven to which Jesus Christ spoke concerning how the church was doing in carrying out its many responsibilities as a representative for Him in a very needy world.

Jesus' view and the people's view of the Laodicean church were as different as day and night.

The people were saying,

"I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing."

But Jesus said,

"[You] do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." (Rev. 3:17).

They were extremely poverty stricken and didn't even realize it! The remedy to this deplorable situation was a call to repentance and radical changes to be implemented. (Rev. 3:18-20).

And so it is in the "land of the free and the home of the brave" -- this republic which God raised up in His mercy and grace over twenty four decades ago -- we have become poverty stricken in a way that is really far beyond our limited understanding to comprehend. Nor have we come to grips with all the ramifications involved due to our ignorance and failure to face reality where it is most critical in a culture claiming to be highly civilized such as ours does!

Try this on for size -- suppose the place where you work had a sudden unexpected reduction in its work force by 20%? Perhaps you belong to a community or social organization -- what if the memberships were suddenly reduced by 20%? Or suppose your church was suddenly reduced in its membership by 20%? None of these would be considered desirable under normal circumstances.

Our nation is missing well over 65 million citizens, which is a little less than 20% of our population of 335,311,231 as of early morning 08/27/23. Remember the number is actualy much higher since a pregnant female can now take two pills in the early weeks of pregnancy and the unborn child is expelled with such females reporting the experience as like having a heavy menstrual period with cramps! The advantage to this method is that surgery is not required and the female saves a lot of big bucks by taking this route! The number of abortions by this "method" are not counted! The question is this -- if it were possible to find them and get them established in our society, what contributions might they make?

Here are some possibilities:

    as citizens they would be paying taxes and would be contributing to the Social Security Trust Fund, which our politicians like to raid from time to time -- it would not be in the mess it's in now if they had kept their long fingers out of it -- still in spite of the "raiders" there would be a few million more helping to increase the SS fund if those missing citizens could be found!

    as career people they might be serving in areas of labor, military, business, the many professions, and perhaps a few would prove to be a great exception and enter the realm of politics having a committed faith in Jesus Christ, a refusal to be driven by greed or self serving ambition, and an intense desire to faithfully serve their constituents beginning with the zealous pursuit of a drastic reduction in taxes -- this would be in sharp contrast to present practices of politicians who constantly want to increase taxes and their own incomes and perk benefits at the same time!

    as church people they would serve in various capacities within the church as laity and others serving as pastors -- they would be involved in fulfilling the Great Commission which was given by Jesus:

Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen..
Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV

These tens of millions "missing" citizens are the unborn who have been destroyed in the womb since January 1973 because some people insisted, with the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruling in agreement, that it is a "constitutional right" to mutilate, dismember, and violently destroy an unborn child!

Isn't it more than a bit ironic that some church groups such as the United Methodist Church are lamenting the loss of members over past decades while at the same time have staked out "official" social issue positions which support the "right" of a woman to have an abortion? Supposing those more than 65 million had not been callously destroyed -- and if they had been permitted to live, would some of these have become members of some of these churches now experiencing steady losses of membership?

Constantly within our society there is a cry at times and a longing that someone somewhere would come forth to make a significant discovery which would greatly improve and/or enhance life in our society. Certainly one great example of this would be a breakthrough in discovering cures for the many forms of cancer or a cure for the tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease, etc.

The question that our pro-abortion society refuses to consider is this -- what if the persons who would have made some of these monumental discoveries have been among the well over 65 million victims destroyed by abortion? As of this writing the oldest group of these victims are now beginning their 5th decade of life. They would be very well settled in their careers and raising families, and at this stage some would have young grandchildren -- that is, if they had been permitted to live!

Just as an ancient church named Laodicea failed to realize its poverty stricken condition, so we as a nation have failed to realize how poverty stricken we are because of those missing victims that number over 65 million!

But even worse than that is the fact that we haven't faced up to the reality that Almighty God, Who had a plan for each of those more than 65 million victims, has yet to make His personal response to this abominable record of the shedding of innocent blood over a period of over half a century -- and that by a nation professing to be a "nation under God" and in recent months has been frequently quoting the phrase, "God bless America!"

The ancient Canaanites didn't get away with the violent sacrifices involving children (thrown into a fire to worship a violent heathen deity!), and the ancient Israelites who later adopted those Canaanite practices of child sacrifice didn't escape the judgment of God -- so who are we to believe that we will prove to be an exception and God will look the other way, or maybe some in their blindness mistakenly believe that God will merely say, "Oh well, boys and girls will be boys and girls -- no harm done!"

Or could it be that a pro-abortion representative of the U.S. Supreme Court might wave a copy of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling in the face of God and tell God to forget about those aborted children for whom He had plans because we have ruled that we can destroy any unborn child we want to at any time we want to, even when that child may be just a few seconds away from a natural birth -- it's our "constitutional right" to do so! Come to think of it, maybe the best person to do this would be deceased United Methodist Supreme Court justice, Harry Blackmun, who authored the Roe v. Wade decision -- he should be well acquainted with God by this time and clearly knows God's view of unborn children!

The raw ignorance of governments and their citizens at times knows no limit -- and the United States clearly demonstrates this and is more than well qualified to stand at the head of the line on its treatment of its unborn -- the missing of over 65 million citizens! The record indicates there were about 15 million victims as a result of the Nazi Holocaust -- multiply that number by slightly over 4 times and you have 65 million victims -- and guess who the culprit is this time? Can't point the finger any longer at those horrible Nazis can we?

So which will it be -- full fledged repentance from our massive idolatry, immorality and sin, including our weekly destruction of thousands of unborn children or experience the wrath of a holy God Who isn't appreciative of humans deliberately disrupting His plans for other humans?

To be a bit more specific -- will our elected officials and our church leaders REALLY take a look at this, the greatest moral crisis this country has ever faced, and in unison say to the citizens, "This callused and willful destruction of the unborn has got to cease immediately!" We all know the answer to that, don't we? Especially when some denominational leaders go on public record as saying they agree with the "official" position of their denomination which supports the "legal option of abortion" for women who want to terminate their pregnancies! The quotes from Jeremiah in the boxes just below tell it the way it really is in the "land of the free and the home of the brave!"

And now, a concluding statement on all this! There will be those abortion supporters who will attempt to argue that of those over 65 million mentioned there would be those who would turn out to be criminals, guilty of committing even violent crimes such as murder, etc! And that is correct, there would be such. But even at the present time we have in prisons those who are highly educated and some even have doctoral degrees! It always comes down to a matter of personal choice! God's desire is that each person will come to repentance, receive Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, and seek to fulfill the plan that He has for one's life! If the well over 65 million had been permitted to live, it cannot be denied that there would have been those who would have made such a decision! Further, as has been the main issue of this commentary, what significant contribution might such persons have made, IF they had been permitted to live? A cartoonist some years ago captured the heart of the issue this way -- he drew a picture of a man on his knees crying out to God, "Oh, God send us somebody who will discover a cure for the many diseases such as cancer and others which kill so many peope every year." A voice from the heavens above responds by saying, "I did, but you aborted them!" I now rest my case!

"I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not hear.' This has been your manner from your youth, that you did not obey My voice. The wind shall eat up all your rulers, and your lovers shall go into captivity; surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated for all your wickedness."
Jeremiah 22:21,22 NKJV


Millions of unborn children have been intentionally murdered all over
the world over time and the United States has contributed tens of millions
to the total - see latest tally at Number of Abortions

"You have had a harlot's forehead; you refuse to be ashamed..." "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:3b; 6:15 NKJV


June 10, 2002
by Clayton D. Harriger
Elder in Full Connection
W PA Annual Conference
The United Methodist Church
and former pastor of
Gipsy Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)(Nov 1999 > Nov 2019)
Gipsy PA

UPDATED August 27, 2023
Updated July 11, 2020
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