Richard Hollerman

We know that after death we must see God and His will—the One who died for our sins. What I mean is that we live life for sixty, seventy, or eighty years—with some fewer and perhaps a few more—and then we face the future with God. (See Matthew 7:13-14)

If we believe God’s Word, we know that most (nearly all) persons are unprepared for the future. They have never found the forgiveness and life through Christ. Thus, they must face God, the Judge (Genesis 18:25), for their sins.

We know that this is the general scenario. After death, people must deal with their sins personally. We refer to a 1,000, or 1 million, or billion year period (and so forth). Are there any righteous? While there must be no exceptions for conscious people, we wonder about the nine months period and the child who is one year or four years or six years old. Where will they go and what follows? (See 2 Samuel 12:15-23.)

Personally, and although the Bible gives very little information about this, we think that these children are “safe” (not saved, of course). Augustine said years ago (was it 400 AD?) that a baby who was not “baptized” could be sent to hell, but we don’t believe this (although it may be still taught by some. The Catholic Church says that such a baby  will go to “limbo” when he or she dies.).

But then we wonder: it seems that millions of people in America and elsewhere are ultra-concerned about babies. To these misguided people, we offer our condolences and say that these children are safe in the arms of Jesus! (We realize that there are millions of parents who kill their babies through abortion, but we all know [hopefully] that this is horrible and wrong.)

But what of these children who come to Christ later? We know that not all children (who are not murdered) do grow up to be twelve, four-teen, six-teen and even twenty-year-olds). What of them? This is the subject of another installment. We do hope that those who have lost children through no fault of their own and they are now lost as young persons, we believe that they do go to be with God and He will find them acceptable.

But, to return to our original question and concern, what of those who die every day and are unprepared to meet God? We understand that 67 million persons die each year. (And 134 million babies are born each year.) Millions of people think that they are going to be with the Lord, but we know that they are dead wrong. They will not (because of their sin and unbelief), but they think that they will!

May these people continue to read our expose of this problem and come to Jesus Christ while there is still time!