WHAT HAPPENS TO MISCARRIAGE BABIES?
Sakkie Parsons
Translated from the Afrikaans Version: Wat word van miskraam babatjies?
Translator: Lynda Botha
Someone wrote to me the following:
"What happens to miscarriage babies? Are they waiting for their parents in heaven? "
Somebody else wrote again:
"I know we receive the Holy Spirit if we repent and accept Jesus as our Saviour, but I wonder how it works with little children."
Here's how I understand it from the Word of God:
The Word of God makes it very clear to me that when our Lord begins to create a human being within a woman, that it is a complete person in the eyes of our Lord. The soul of that human being is already there and whether that person will either live for a short while within the mother’s womb or live 100 years outside of the mother’s womb on this earth, it remains a human being. Regarding this matter I read in the Word of God:
Psalm 139:13-18
13 “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
14 “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvellous – how well I know it.”
15 “You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.”
16 “You saw me before I was born, every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”
17 “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!”
18 “I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!”
Did you see?
When our Lord create a human being within the mother’s womb, our Lord, to put it this way, intimately knows this person already within the mother’s womb.
PSA 139:16 “You saw me before I was born, every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”
Because of the sin that came into this world, a lot of bad things happen with our Lord's highest creations, namely humans, but that doesn’t make that human being less human.
For example, I was born with vision impairment, but I am still fully human. Whether a person came from the mother with an abortion, or with miscarriage, or a stillborn, or whether you are born alive with impairments or not, your soul remains completely you. Your body, in whatever condition it is or was, does not matter as it is or was in any case just a temporary home. I read in the Word of God:
2 COR 5:1-6
1 “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands.”
2 “We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.”
3 “For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.”
4 “While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.”
5 “God Himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee He has given us His Holy Spirit.”
6 “So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord.”
There is absolutely no doubt to me that all children who died and have not yet reached the accountability stage in their lives, even those who lived in their mother’s womb for a time, are with our Lord in Heaven.
The accountable age, as I understand it, is as soon as a child reaches that stage in his/her life, where that person can make a choice for or against our Lord. In this regard, Jesus says in the Word of God the following:
MAT 18:1-3
1 “About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”
2 “Jesus called a little child to Him and put the child among them.”
3 “Then He said, “I tell you the truth unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Is it not wonderful?
How wonderful!
When those big grown men stood around Jesus and asked who are the greatest in Heaven, Jesus took the smallest in their immediate presence to show them what your mind-set should be, to be great in Heaven.
On another occasion, Jesus makes it very clear, that all children already have part in heaven.
In other words, Heaven already belongs to them.
LUKE 18:15-17
15 “One day some parents brought their little children to Jesus, so He could touch and bless them. But when the disciples saw this, they scolded the parents for bothering Him.”
16 “Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.”
17 “I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
So next time you see a little child, remember:
LUK 18:16 “….For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.”
As I have shown you, according to the Word of God, you and I have the absolute certainty:
Every miscarriage baby there ever was, is in Heaven with Jesus and this also applies to every abortion child, every still born child and every child who has not yet reached the age of accountability. Praise the Name of the Lord! It will always be this way until this Heaven and this Earth have passed away.
Greetings,
Sakkie