In Israel and Judah's day, some neighboring nations sacrificed their children to their gods.  Despite God's commands and warnings, Israel and Judah were influenced by these surrounding nations and ended up doing the same thing.  Through the recent actions of numerous elected officials in the United States today, it's become apparent that people are now willing to sacrifice children to a wide variety of "gods" to serve their own purposes.  When the true God is a God of life who loves the children, we wonder how long He will withhold His hand from letting us know what He thinks about all of this killing of innocent children?