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On March 18 2012, 18 month old Ezekiel Stephan, child of God, died. According to sexular doctors it was from bacterial meningitis. Now, the pro vaccination atheists in Canada have decided to prosecute little Ezekiel's parents, David and Collet, charging them with “failing to provide the necessities of life".
On the family’s Facebook page, Prayers for Ezekiel, David Stephan wrote:
This God-fearing couple are being punished for trusting in the will of God. God wanted their baby for whatever reason. It is not up to the sexular courts to argue with the Lord.
The tale of the child's death parallels the story in 2 Samuel 12:14-24 when God decided to kill the baby of David and Bathsheba.
On the family’s Facebook page, Prayers for Ezekiel, David Stephan wrote:
I ask for your support in preventing this from taking place. I ask that you join with us in taking a stand to preserve the liberties and inalienable rights that are naturally endowed upon us as children of the Divine Creator. I earnestly pray to God above that we may be empowered to defend and preserve our rights that are necessary to having life, liberty and being able to pursue happiness.
Nineteen-month-old Ezekiel Stephan had allegedly been sick for weeks before he died of meningitis in 2012, the CBC reports. His parents David and Collet Stephan are now pleading not guilty for failing to provide necessities of life for Ezekiel. They allegedly treated him with home remedies instead of taking him to a doctor before he died.
According to the CBC, the Stephans run a nutritional supplement company called Truehope Nutrional Suport Inc. in Alberta, Canada. The company produces natural treatments and has been sued in the past for distributing products without drug identification numbers and for distributing Empowerplus, a supplement the company claims can manage mental health illnesses. Many have written about the product critically.
RAWSTORY reports the Stephans allegedly originally "tried to boost the boy's immune system by feeding him with olive leaf extract, whey protein, water with maple syrup and juice with frozen berries." When his symptoms did not improve, they allegedly fed him "a mixture of apple cider vinegar, horseradish root, hot peppers, onion, garlic and ginger root."
Ezekiel was only airlifted to the hospital when he stopped breathing. Doctors removed him from life support after five days in the hospital. Prosecutors argued in court on Tuesday this is not a matter of the couple not loving their son or trying to kill him, but that they could have prevented his death by bringing him to a doctor much sooner.
According to Global News, a nurse who Collet Stephan called to their home after Ezekiel had been sick for a while testified she told the mother she thought Ezekiel's illness could be meningitis and that she thought Ezekiel should be brought to a doctor. The child died days later.
David Stephan has been posting updates on Facebook claiming many media accusations about how he and his wife treated their son are meant to paint them guiltily. "Don't get me wrong," he wrote on the Prayers for Ezekiel Facebook page. "The majority of the [CBC] article is truth, but conveyed in such a way to create a distorted picture." According to RAWSTORY, Stephan believes the government is prosecuting the couple to force parents to vaccinate their children.
Should he and Collet be found guilty, they face up to five years in prison and the loss of their three other children.
According to the CBC, the Stephans run a nutritional supplement company called Truehope Nutrional Suport Inc. in Alberta, Canada. The company produces natural treatments and has been sued in the past for distributing products without drug identification numbers and for distributing Empowerplus, a supplement the company claims can manage mental health illnesses. Many have written about the product critically.
RAWSTORY reports the Stephans allegedly originally "tried to boost the boy's immune system by feeding him with olive leaf extract, whey protein, water with maple syrup and juice with frozen berries." When his symptoms did not improve, they allegedly fed him "a mixture of apple cider vinegar, horseradish root, hot peppers, onion, garlic and ginger root."
Ezekiel was only airlifted to the hospital when he stopped breathing. Doctors removed him from life support after five days in the hospital. Prosecutors argued in court on Tuesday this is not a matter of the couple not loving their son or trying to kill him, but that they could have prevented his death by bringing him to a doctor much sooner.
According to Global News, a nurse who Collet Stephan called to their home after Ezekiel had been sick for a while testified she told the mother she thought Ezekiel's illness could be meningitis and that she thought Ezekiel should be brought to a doctor. The child died days later.
David Stephan has been posting updates on Facebook claiming many media accusations about how he and his wife treated their son are meant to paint them guiltily. "Don't get me wrong," he wrote on the Prayers for Ezekiel Facebook page. "The majority of the [CBC] article is truth, but conveyed in such a way to create a distorted picture." According to RAWSTORY, Stephan believes the government is prosecuting the couple to force parents to vaccinate their children.
Should he and Collet be found guilty, they face up to five years in prison and the loss of their three other children.
The tale of the child's death parallels the story in 2 Samuel 12:14-24 when God decided to kill the baby of David and Bathsheba.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 2 Samuel 12:14
And that's what God did, but not all at once. He let the baby suffer for a while. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 2 Samuel 12:15
When God made the baby sick, David pleaded with God to stop tormenting him. But God wouldn't listen. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 2 Samuel 12:16
Finally, after the baby suffered for seven days, God killed him. In David Stephan's case, the baby died after 5 days in hospital. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died 2 Samuel 12:18
After the baby died, David washed, got dressed, had a nice meal, and worshiped God who'd just killed his son. Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then ....... he did eat. 2 Samuel 12:20
The story has a happy ending, though. After Bathsheba's baby boy is killed by God, David comforts her by going "in unto her." (What a nice guy!) And David Stephan's wife has also had a new baby since baby Ezekiel's death. And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her 2 Samuel 12:24
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