Questions & Answers on The Holy Ghost
Questions 95 (COD Page 433)
Now, here’s one that’s really a sticker. Question (I think it’s the same person, ’cause it looks like the same handwrite): If a person must have the Holy Ghost to be have the Holy Ghost to be converted and to go in the rapture, what will be the state of children that have died before the years of accountability? And when will they rise?
105 Now, my brother, sister, I cannot tell you that. There’s no Scripture on it in the Bible as I can find anywhere. But I can express my thoughts. Now, this’ll strengthen you that believes in grace of God. You see, the person wants to know (which is a very good question. See?) the person wants to know what resurrection-what will happen to a baby, that if he has to have the Holy Ghost in order to go in the rapture... As I have said, that’s right. That’s according to the Bible. That’s the teaching of the Scripture. Not to not to go to Heaven... Because the Holy Ghost filled people is the first resurrection, the Elect. And the remnant of those... The rest of the dead live not for a thousand years. After the Millennium, then the second resurrection, the great White Throne judgment. See? That’s exactly Bible order. But this person wants to know what about these babies. They... In other words, did they have the Holy Ghost before they were born? Did they receive It? Now, that I cannot tell you.
106 But now, let us say like this: We know that babies that die, regardless of their parents, they are saved. Now, I disagree with the school of prophets on that. They said if it was-died with a parent that was sinful, that that baby would go to hell, rot away; there’d be no more to it. Well, Jesus... John said when Jesus come, “Behold the Lamb of God that take away the sin of the world.” And if that baby was a human being, which would have to come under the judgments of God, and Jesus died to take away the sin, all sin was expelled before God when Jesus died for that purpose. Your sins were forgiven. My sins were forgiven. And the only way that you can ever be forgiven is to accept His pardon. Now, the baby cannot accept its pardon, so it hasn’t done nothing. It hasn’t done nothing at all. So it is absolutely freely to go to Heaven.
107 But you will say, “Will they go in the rapture?” Now-now, this is my own word; this is my thought now. Don’t... I can’t prove this by the Bible. But look. If God, before the foundation of the world, knew every human being would ever be on the earth... Do you believe that? He knowed every gnat, every flea, every fly, He knowed everything that would ever be on the earth. If He knowed that...
108 Look. Let’s take for instance, Moses. When Moses was born, he was a prophet. Before Jeremiah... God told Jeremiah, “Before you was even formed in your mother’s womb, before you was ever formed in her womb, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations.” John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah saw him in a vision, said, “He’s the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”
109 The predestination or the foreknowledge of God knows all about the little babies (see?), what they were to do. And He knowed they would die. He knowed. Nothing can happen without God knowing about it. Nothing can happen to... Just like the Good Shepherd, how He goes in... Now, to take this by Scripture, I couldn’t say the Scripture says so-and-so. I’m just taking it for my thought.