Bible Questions Answered:
“Little children, are they kept by
God at death?...”
Rachel/ Ocala, Florida U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Are little children who have not
reached what is called the “age of accountability,” saved?
Yes, because they in the truest sense
do not yet understand what is right and what is wrong, they are
innocent.
The following scripture has been used
time after time concerning those who (adults) have died and yet never
heard the life saving message of Jesus Christ.
Luke 12:42-48 KJV
42 And The Lord said, Who then is
that faithful and wise steward, whom His Lord shall make ruler over
his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom His
Lord when He cometh shall find so doing.
44 Of a Truth I say unto you, that
He will make him ruler over all that He hath.
45 But and if that servant say in
his heart, My Lord delayeth His coming; and shall begin to beat the
menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The Lord of that servant will
come in a day when he looketh not for Him, and at an hour when he is
not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his
portion with the unbelievers.
47 And that servant, which knew his
Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to His
will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48 But he that knew not, and did
commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and
to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
If this is true, concerning adult
servants, “who knew not,” their Master's wishes, and Jesus told
this story, than certainly little children who have died and were too
young to understand, right from wrong, are taken by our loving Lord.
Children, saved or lost-The Word:
The Israelites, in
the wilderness had been disobedient to The Lord, and Moses himself
had failed.. The Lord then spoke these words to him.
Deuteronomy 1:39 KJV
I will give the
land to your little ones—your innocent children. You were
afraid they would be captured, but they will be the ones who
occupy it.
The little children would possess The Promised Land.
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Nathan the prophet, told King David, he
had sinned when he sent Uriah to his death, (one of King David's
military commanders), so that he could take his wife, Bath-Sheba, as his own.
One of God's judgments upon David was
that his first born son, would die.
II Samuel 12:21-23 KJV
21 Then said his servants unto him,
What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for
the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou
didst rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was
yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God
will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, wherefore
should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him,
but he shall not return to me.
King David, clearly declaring that the child had gone to God.
The Lord told
Ezekiel the prophet, His people were once a chosen wife, but that she
had played the harlot going after all who worshiped strange gods such
as Moloch, where little children were sacrificed to fire.
Ezekiel 16:20,21
NLT
20 “Then you took your sons and
daughters—the children you had borne to Me—and sacrificed
them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough?
21 Must you also slaughter My
children by sacrificing them to idols?
God called these
innocent little children, “My Children!”
And God, would
called millions of aborted babies in our world, “My
Children!”
Jonah after
witnessing to Nineveh, sat under a large plant that shaded him, but
God sent a worm to eat the plant and his shade was gone, and so to
Jonah's rest.
Jonah 4:10,11
KJV
10 Then said The Lord, Thou hast had
pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither
madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh,
that great city, wherein are more than sixscore (Score=20/
120,000) thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
The Living God, had
not only compassion on the men, women and little children (who did
not know their left hand from their right hand.) of Nineveh, and
on all the animals as well!
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Jeremiah
31:15-17 KJV
15 Thus saith The Lord; A voice was
heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for
her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they
were not.
16 Thus saith The Lord; Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith The Lord; and they shall come again from the land of
the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end,
saith The Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own
border.
This prophecy was
fulfilled in Herod's slaughter of the innocents.
Matthew 2:16-18
KJV
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he
was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and
slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts
thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he
had diligently inquired of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was
spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard,
lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her
children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
But The Lord
reminded Jeremiah of old.....
Jeremiah
31:16,17 KJV
16 Thus saith The Lord; Refrain
thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work
shall be rewarded, saith The Lord; and they shall come again from
the land of the enemy (Death-
ed.)
17 And there is hope in thine
end, saith The Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own
border.
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Matthew 18:1-6
KJV
1 At the same time came the
disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child
unto Him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you,
Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble
himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such
little child in My name receiveth Me.
6 But whoso shall offend one of
these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a
millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the
depth of the sea.
Matthew 19:13-15
KJV
13 Then were there brought unto Him
little children, that He should put His hands on them, and pray: and
the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer (permit)
little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me: for of such is
the kingdom of heaven.
15 And He laid His hands on them,
and departed thence.
Innocent little
children, who die (or at the time of the rapture of the church), are
received by The Lord.
Genesis 18:25
KJV
"...Shall not The Judge of all
the earth do right?"
P.S.
Mothers who have
committed the heinous crime of aborting their beloved children, if in
repentance and faith, receive The Lord Jesus into their hearts and
lives, as Savior and Master of their lives, may again one day be
restored to their little ones in heaven!
Praise The Lord.
