“Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.” (ESV)
Children are a blessing from God. This is something the secular culture that is growing more and more prominent in the West (but also in many places in Asia including China and Japan) does not understand. A few decades ago an environmental activist named Paul Ehrlich wrote a book called The Population Bomb in which he argued that the world was on a path toward rampant overpopulation which would lead to mass starvation as the environment could not produce enough food to feed everyone. The only solution was for world leaders to take drastic steps to decrease the world’s population and prevent its rapid growth in the future. Read the rest…
The Nexus 