Trigger Warning: This article discusses miscarriage and pregnancy loss.
After my ectopic pregnancy, I remember someone consoling us by telling us we had a little baby in heaven.
Up until that point, I hadn’t thought much about the baby. I hadn’t known I was pregnant until I found out that the pregnancy was nonviable, so I hadn’t had time to get attached to the idea of a baby. I had been viewing the event as purely a medical issue, which was easier for me to process. I had already lost a fallopian tube, I didn’t need the emotional weight of mourning the loss of a child as well.
I also wasn’t quite sure if what that person said was true. After all, the embryo had never even gotten the chance to implant into the uterus. At what point does the sperm/egg combo become human? Do the spirits of the babies wait until a certain point to inhabit their bodies? If there is a miscarriage do they go to heaven or do they float around in the ether, waiting for a new body?
Certainly, it was a nice thought to believe that I had a baby in heaven, but I wasn’t quite sure.
After miscarrying twins at 10 weeks, there was no doubt in my mind that they were very much alive, and very much my children. had seen their heartbeats and watched them grow. I could feel the effects of their presence through nausea and other pregnancy symptoms. However, the questions after their loss remained. Were they really in heaven?
What the Bible Says
God is responsible for creating all human life, from the moment to conception.
You formed me in my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psalm 139
But you are he who took me out of the womb;
You made me trust while on my mother’s breasts.
I was cast upon you from birth.
From my mother’s womb
You have been my God.
Psalm 22:9-10
He not just creates life, but ordains the path of every human life:
The the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:4-5
Children who die do not cease to exist, and there is hope that we may see them again.
In the words of King David, after his son had died:
While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said “Who can tell me whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?”; But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
2 Samuel 12:22-23
God considers children who die innocent, even those that were born from parents who committed evil practices:
For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal–something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.
Jeremiah 19:4-5
Jesus considered children to have special status:
And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.
Matthew 18:3-5
See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:10
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.
Mark 10:14b-16
John MacArthur says in Safe in the Arms of God:
There’s no place in which Jesus blesses the “cursed” or the “damned,” or indiscriminately blesses those who may be some strange hybrid of good and evil. These were real children Jesus was holding in his arms, and he said of them, “Of such is the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:14). Jesus blesses those in his arms, because from heaven’s perspective, they were counted among the blessed righteous ones whose rightful eternal home was heaven.
John MacArthur, Safe in the Arms of God
This is just a small collection of verses, but from these verses, we can already glean the following information:
- God is responsible for creating all human life, from the moment of conception.
- God already knows and has ordained life events for a child before it’s even born.
- God considers children to be innocent.
- According to King David, his child could not return to him, but he believed he would see his child again: “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
- Jesus himself claimed that the kingdom of God belongs to children.
Based on the above verses, and others, I can firmly state that yes, our lost children in the womb and outside the womb are save in heaven right now. I became firmly convinced of this after reading the compelling evidence compiled in the book Safe in the Arms of God by John MacArthur, which I highly recommend you read for yourself.
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