Aug 1955 - Q & A

Can we establish what will happen to the infants living at the time of the coming of the Lord, seeing we believe the "infant dead" to be included in "they that are Christ's at His coming" (1 Corinthians 15. 23)?

Answer.-No scripture that we know of deals with what will happen to living children who have not reached years of accountability when the Lord comes for those in Christ who are in the Church which is His Body. We presume that the questioner is anxious to know what will happen to the little children of saved people, and not to the children of unsaved people. If it should be said that the children of saved people (children who are not in Christ) would be taken with their saved parents, why not also the children of the unsaved? This question of what will happen to their little children has troubled many Christian. fathers and mothers as they have thought of the coming of the Lord. This is one of the secret things that belong unto the Lord (See Deuteronomy 29.29.). Should we not therefore have confidence in God not to enquire, but to trust the Lord in the trust of having been given children by Him to care for? Think of that word spoken of Edom of old: "Leave thy father less children, I will preserve them alive" (Jeremiah 49.11). And again the word concerning the Shepherd, "Awake, 0 sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My Fellow, saith the LORD of Hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:

and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones" (Zechariah 13.7). Angels have a special care over little ones (Matthew 18.10), and God is the Father of the fatherless (Psalm 68.5). As we know not when the Lord may come, here is a matter for daily prayer-the salvation of children.

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