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Have you ever thought about how many babies might be born in the air between earth and Jesus while we are being caught up to Him?
I Thess. 4:17 is pretty clear that the living Christians will be caught up in the air with the resurrected ones when Jesus returns. In Matt. 24:19, Jesus mentions a similar issue to what I raise for the tribulation.
There are probably 1.5 billion Christians in the world, and we hope most of those are truly saved, and would thus be caught up in the rapture, if it happened today. We also hope that by the time Jesus returns, that number will be quite a bit larger. They will be having babies (Matt. 24:37-38 seems to think so) which they cannot do after (Matt. 22:30). It's not a difficult calculation. If a woman lives 50 years and has 3 children, and each takes 10 minutes, that's (3x10min.)/(50yr.x365daysx24hr.x60min.) about 1/876,000 of a woman's life spent in birth. But when you have 750 million Christian women to count it for, even if only half are saved and so taken up, that's 375,000,000/876,000=428 babies who can be expected to be delivered at the moment of rapture. This is conservative, using the smallest number of saved, a larger life span than we now have, the shortest birth time, etc.
My question is, what will the status of the new babies be? They are not saved, yet they will go up in or attached to their mother's bodies. Or does God have another solution?
I Thess. 4:17 is pretty clear that the living Christians will be caught up in the air with the resurrected ones when Jesus returns. In Matt. 24:19, Jesus mentions a similar issue to what I raise for the tribulation.
There are probably 1.5 billion Christians in the world, and we hope most of those are truly saved, and would thus be caught up in the rapture, if it happened today. We also hope that by the time Jesus returns, that number will be quite a bit larger. They will be having babies (Matt. 24:37-38 seems to think so) which they cannot do after (Matt. 22:30). It's not a difficult calculation. If a woman lives 50 years and has 3 children, and each takes 10 minutes, that's (3x10min.)/(50yr.x365daysx24hr.x60min.) about 1/876,000 of a woman's life spent in birth. But when you have 750 million Christian women to count it for, even if only half are saved and so taken up, that's 375,000,000/876,000=428 babies who can be expected to be delivered at the moment of rapture. This is conservative, using the smallest number of saved, a larger life span than we now have, the shortest birth time, etc.
My question is, what will the status of the new babies be? They are not saved, yet they will go up in or attached to their mother's bodies. Or does God have another solution?