Matthew 2:16-18. When King Herod realizes that the wise men are not coming back to tell him where he can find the newborn King of the Jews, he flies into a furious rage and has all of the male children under the age of two in all of Bethlehem and the surrounding areas killed. Thus was fulfilled Jeremiah's prophecy of a loud wailing and lamentation in Ramah, "Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more."

What if there was a slaughter of the Innocents but there was no "wailing and loud lamentation" for them? What if Rachel was not only consoled, but convinced that she was happy about her children who were no more? What if Rachel was, in fact, convinced to kill her children herself and was not at all upset about that, or at least would not (or could not) admit that she was upset about it? One has to think that this would show a level of depravity and submission to the devil that would have been unthinkable in the past. And yet, that is where we are.

We are in the grips of true evil. It is still spreading, but the battle against it has intensified greatly, and I do believe we are witnessing it's desperation now. I hope it is defeated soon, and that we save not only the children, but all the Rachels who have been so miserably deceived.