Let’s begin with a short trip to the Patent Office and a “baby cage.”
Back when fresh air was considered a cure-all, London parents who lived in apartments wondered how they could give their babies outdoor time without a yard? The solution was a wire cage that hung outside the window, suspending the baby several stories above the street.
Parents would simply place the baby in the cage and go about their day. You might not be surprised to discover the practice didn’t catch on. Maybe it was the image of all those babies hanging over the sidewalks.
And you should also know that psychologists believe babies are born with two great fears — a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling.
So hanging them from a window over a noisy street was not a great idea.
In Jonathan Cahn’s book “Return of the Gods,” he talks about the satanic trinity. Baal is the god of greed and possessions. Ishtar is the goddess of lust and physical pleasure. And Molech is the god of death who is worshipped by sacrificing babies in the fire, which Hamas did on October 7, 2024.
But Hamas killed an estimated 29 children, and we killed 591,770 babies by abortion during the first six months of 2025. Yet estimates of the number of babies killed by Herod range from six to 20, and we condemn Herod as a monster.
When Herod realized that the visitors from the east had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger.
This was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.
It was not the first time nor the last time that babies would be killed by Molech and his followers.
The Nazis killed a million and a half Jewish babies during the Holocaust and 6,000 German children with mental and/or physical disabilities because they were “useless eaters.” Older children survived as “forced labor.”
And remember, one of the characteristics of a Christian society is the protection of its most helpless citizens —its children and those with mental and/or physical disabilities.
You should know we live in a satanic world where children, especially the children of God, babies, children, the Jews, and Christians are persecuted and even killed, and yet we survive and we thrive!
Charles “Buddy” Whatley is a retired United Methodist pastor serving Dawson Street Methodist Church in Thomasville, Ga. With wife, Mary Ella, they are missionaries to the Navajo Reservation.
