The children, God is not willing that any should be lost!

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1 The children, God is not willing that any should be lost! What about the children during the tribulation period? They re not old enough to make eternal decisions, thankfully God has set precedence in Biblical history that children nineteen years and younger are not yet mature enough to make life or death eternal decisions. When the tribulation period begins and the first door opens for the church the children of the whole world will disappear the same time the church is removed from the earth. You can imagine the kind of terror this is going to bring to the world. People all around the world will be crushed with anguish wondering where their children have gone. This event will give the whole world the boost it will need to usher in one world rule and one world government. Of all the things the people of the world have to worry about at the beginning of the tribulation period, the safety of their children is the least of their worries. Do not fear for your children, for they are in the Fathers house in the kingdom of heaven well taken care of by God and His angels. After seven years have passed and the tribulation period has come to an end the children who disappeared at the beginning of the tribulation period will be brought back to the earth. They will then be raised by the people who have given their hearts to Jesus Christ during the tribulation period. Those people who were martyred for their faith in Jesus during the tribulation period will be the ones who will raise your children in a world now governed by God and immortal people who love God. If you are one of those people who receive Jesus as Lord in the coming first six years of the tribulation period you stand a very good chance of raising up your own children to come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. In the book of Jonah 3/11 God says 3/11 And should I not have pity on Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left-and much livestock? Here God tells Jonah that it is not right to destroy Nineveh because there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand children who aren t old enough to discern their right hand from their left. Gods first concern for Nineveh was the safety of the children In Numbers 14/28-33 God is about to pass judgment on a rebellious people those who Moses led out of Egypt. The Israelites-after hearing reports from ten of the twelve spies about the people of the land of Canaan, how big they were and how impossible it would be to take the land. The Israelites refused to go into the promise land and take what God was about to give to them. By not trusting in the LORD and refusing to take the land God was about to give them they by their actions told God they had no faith in His promises. This unfortunate lack of faith brought judgment upon the people. Those from age twenty years and up were condemned to wander in the wilderness forty years until all the peoples twenty years and older had perished in the wilderness. Those of the Israelites who

2 were under the age of twenty years old would after forty years of wandering in the wilderness then enter into the land of Canaan and take the promise land as God had commanded. As God judged the people for their disobedience He established precedence or a biblical precept that children up to the age of nineteen were not old enough to make eternal life or death decisions. Let s read those passages Numbers 14/28 Say to them, As I live, says the LORD, just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 31 But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your son s shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. In Verse 31 God says the little ones whom the people said would be victims would in fact be brought in by God and they would know the promise land that the people with no faith had despised. If one is not born again in Jesus Christ then that person is dead in their sins God refers to such a person as a carcass this term indicates the spiritual state of the person in question spiritually dead. In Numbers 14/ God refers to the living Israelites as carcasses three times, from God s point of view they are all dead in their sins and yet God says the little ones or the children of the Israelites would be brought into the promise land despite the dead spiritual condition of their parents and the children s own dead spiritual condition. Many Christians today seem to feel only the children of born again parents would be spared enduring the tribulation period. This is not Gods way, God loves children and He is not willing that any should be lost. When the church is removed from the earth at the beginning of the tribulation period all the children of the world will also be taken up into the Fathers house where they will be kept safe until the seven years of the tribulation period are completed. When I say all the children I mean all Christian and non Christian kids of all religious persuasion. All the children nineteen years old and younger shall be taken into the Fathers house and kept safe in a great pavilion for the seven years of the tribulation period. Then they will be brought back to the earth to live out their lives and hopefully to become born again in our Lord Jesus. In Psalm 36/7-8 it reads 7 How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. 8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your House, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. In this verse the children put their trust under the shadow of Gods wings. The wings spoken of in this passage are the wings God gives to the church to fly the Saints up from the earth and into the Fathers house or the New Jerusalem the first day of the tribulation period. This verse also tells us where the children will be transported to when in verse 8 it says They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your House, And You give them drink from

3 the river of Your pleasures When the Bible speaks of the three doors when people are transported by God from one place to another He calls those who are being taken in the three doors eagles. In Isaiah 40/31 But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. God tells us that when He takes His church into heaven the people would be like eagles mounting up with wings like eagles, leaving earth behind and flying into the Lords house where the body of Christ resides. Luke 17/34-37 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left. 37 And they answered and said to Him where Lord? So he said to them, Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together. Here God tells us wherever the body of Christ is there the eagles would be gathered together the eagles being the people who are taken up into heaven. Lest we get to far away from the subject at hand the point of this is to show you what God means in Psalm 36/7 How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. When the church mounts up on wings to fly into heaven like eagles the children of the world will also leave the earth behind at that exact same time. The church will be given their new spiritual bodies and enter into heaven. The children will follow the church up into heaven under the shadow of the wings God has given to the church. The children will not be getting their new spiritual bodies at this time. God is temporarily removing the children of the earth because they are not old enough to make eternal life or death decisions and the seven years of the tribulation period are all about adults either choosing eternal life in Jesus Christ or rejecting Jesus Christ and choosing eternal death. A shadow follows the object that casts the shadow. When the first door opens for the church and the church is taken up into heaven all the children of the world will be taken up into heaven at the same time the church is removed from the earth. Psalm 36/7 How precious is your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of the Sons of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. In Psalm 90/3-4 Thou turn man to destruction, And say, Return, O children of men. 4 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. Here God tells us of the time of the harvest when humanity is all but destroyed this is the seven years of the tribulation period. The only group of people who survive the tribulation period on the earth are the remnant of the Jews who are sequestered in the valley of Achor. The children of the earth survive the tribulation period but they are not on the earth during the tribulation period they are safely kept in the Fathers house and are brought back to the earth at the end of the tribulation period, Return O children of men Then in verse 4 it says For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night. The thousand years refers to the millennial reign of Christ, And like a watch in the night refers to the first watch when the church and the children of the world are taken up into heaven. If you have not read

4 the paper explaining the three doors and the three watches given to mankind this concept of the first door is hard to understand, what the church currently calls the rapture Jesus called the first door or the first watch given to mankind. Please go to and take the time to read the paper labeled Christians call it the rapture Jesus called it the doors it will tell you about the three doors and the three watches its worth your time to read. In Matthew 19/14 But Jesus said, let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven. The Lord said this to the apostles but it also pertains to a coming time in the future when all the children of the world will be taken in a moment in the twinkling of an eye into the Fathers house. God will take care of your children for the seven years of the tribulation period. Its far better they are with the Lord then here on the earth during the time of the harvest. In Mark 10/14 But when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Again Jesus says to suffer the anguish of the loss of your children for it is far better they are with Lord Jesus then on the earth during the tribulation period. Luke 11/7 And He from within shall answer and say, Trouble Me not: the door is now shut, and My children are with Me in bed; I cannot rise and give to thee. In this verse Jesus says His children are with Him in bed and the first door is now shut. The door Jesus talks about is the first door or the first watch Then Jesus says His children are with Him in bed. When He says children He can only literally mean young children. The bride of Christ is in her own chambers before the wedding takes place. Joel 2/15-16 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. In this passage we see a quick synopsis of the tribulation period. One of the things noted in this quick overview of the tribulation period is gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: In Micah 1/16 Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity Here we are told the precious children will be taken into captivity into the Fathers house. When Jesus went into the center of the earth and took captivity captive He also took those people into the Fathers house. Psalm 115/16 The heaven even the heavens, are the LORD S: but the earth hath He given to the children of men. When the tribulation period is complete and God has the title deed of the earth once more, God then returns the children of the world back to the earth and gives them the earth for the next thousand years. May God bless them and watch over them, may they be pleasing to the LORD always. Now before I close let s address the obvious, many astute Bible scholars are thinking there are many scriptures that say there will be children in the tribulation period. You are absolutely right. When the children of the world are taken into the heaven the first day of the tribulation period there will be the 144,000 young Israelite male children these will be very young some just weaned from the breast. They are immortal and unstoppable with the ability

5 to travel anywhere in the world as they please. At the beginning of the tribulation period all the children those who are yet to be weaned to those who are nineteen years old will be gathered by God into the new Jerusalem and kept in a great pavilion all those except the 144,000. There will be women who are pregnant they will carry their child into the tribulation period. For the next seven years of the tribulation period men and women will continue to have children. In verse Matthew 24/19 Jesus is telling us about the second door or the second watch and He say s 24/19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! The time frame of this verse is the three and a half year point of the tribulation period. Jesus doesn t say anything about young children in this verse because there aren t any children other then pregnant women and babies who are still nursing. As Jesus said suffer the children to come unto Me. For those who will have their children snatched away at the beginning of the tribulation period take solace in Psalm 36/7-8 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. 8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. The King James Bible and the New king James Bible were used in this paper. If you would like to read other papers explaining the Bible log onto and view or download papers free of charge. God bless you all! Receive Lord Jesus now if you are already born again in Lord Jesus the time is short make the best of the remaining years we have left, tell others about our Lord Jesus exhorting them to receive eternal life in our Lord Jesus! If you want to speak to John me at secondjohn@cox.net All glory be to God it is God who gives wisdom and understanding all praise glory and honor be to our heavenly Father and Jesus Christ our beloved Lord and Savior.