HEAVEN
FOLLOW-UP
I
have a question regarding not being looked on from heaven. Hebrews 12:1
says we are watched by a great cloud of people. Isn’t that people in
heaven? Just wondering. Also a question I have had for a long
time. Do babies stay babies or are they a grown up age and old people a
younger age? Sorry for hard questions.
The passage you
are referring to in Hebrews 12:1 does talk about “such a great cloud of
witnesses” which in the context of Hebrews refers directly back to Hebrews 11
(often called “the Faith Chapter”). The “witnessing” that is talked about
is not that the people are looking down on us, but rather as the whole chapter
11 says, their faith is witnessing to us that God is real, His promises are
real, and that everything that God has planned in the future is True. All
the faithful people in history are witnesses for the truth of faith in God.
The passage most certainly could be seen as “people looking down on us
from Heaven” except all of chapter 11 is about their historical real personal
examples of faith strengthening our belief in God.
As to the baby
question, there are absolutely no Scriptures that I am aware of even hint at an
answer or even an educated guess. This is a topic Scripture is silent on.
This is also a subject where you will find false teaching such as the
Jehovah Witnesses, so you have to be careful when reading books, articles,
websites, etc. Unfortunately, there is no way to guess what will happen
to infants who pass away in terms of their appearance, etc. I do believe
that God’s Grace covers them and they are in Heaven, but as to their aging
process or development, there just isn’t any Scripture. Where the Bible
is silent, I guess I must give a hardy “I don’t know!”
Troy
Borst
Associate
Minister
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