Bible Question

[ayin jade]

Hi all, Im starting this thread for someone who has a bible question but is having trouble initiating topics. She will post her question in the next post. Please help her.

[SueZQ]

Hi all, Im starting this thread for someone who has a bible question but is having trouble initiating topics. She will post her question in the next post. Please help her.

Thank you Jade and thank you precious people.... I am looking for a certain verse in the Bible, I remember reading it years ago, this is not verbatim, but close to it...

[ When the young die it for a reason because they are being protected from something worse in the future]

I would appreciate any thoughts on this... I believe it was in the OT, not in a story of someone's life, so perhaps the psalms, I don't know, but I really do need this certain verse.

Thank you in advance,

Sue

(PreciousSpouse)

[SueZQ]

Hello Sue,

I am pretty familiar with the Bible, but cannot think of any verse that says that. There are scriptures like the one in Ecclesiates 3:2 "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;" or Ecclesiastes 7:1 "A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."

What I think is happening is you are likely remembering something someone said in a sermon or at a funeral or while giving comfort to someone that lost a child. I have heard people in the past speculate about things like that. They would say something like, "I do not understand why God would take your child, but we know he knows best. Perhaps he is sparing them from something bad in the future.

I even once remember Jimmy Swaggart speaking of the conversion of one of his relatives. He said that he knew that this person, because of the bad influences around him, wouldn't be strong enough to remain in the faith, so God took him on shortly after he got saved, as an act of mercy.

As I said, I cannot think of any particular scripture that makes that claim, and my wife couldn't think of any either. Perhaps if you could think of something else about the passage it came from it might jog my memory.

I am sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I think it was likely a message you heard rather than a scripture you read.

Thank you so much for your reply Butero and I value your thoughts so much. I know that I read it and I underlined it, then wrote in the margin of the Bible " Good to share with someone that has lost a child" This was 20 years ago, it was not a King James Bible. I no longer have that Bible, and the wording I gave above is the essence of this particular scripture I'm searching for from my rememberence in that contemporary Bible Version.... with so many different versions, it's difficult and perhaps with this version it wrote it so much differently... I do know I read it, it was in an easy to read version, and I would like to locate this verse.

Thanks so much again, and hugs in Christ

Sue

(preciousspouse)

[branchesofHim]

Ecclesiates 3 is filled with "time" points.

For a good site to search the scriptures on-line check this out.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2w...kjv/kjv-pub.o2w

Peace.

[Marnie]

The only verse I can think of is in Hebrews 11, after listing all the martyrs, the writer says they died because "the world was not worthy of them." (Heb. 11:37, 38).

[SueZQ]

A BIG thank you and a God bless you all for reading, searching, and for your replies.... My mom FOUND the scripture for me, and I see why you all could not because I said "young" and that I thought it wasn't from a "story" in the Bible. Forgive me for not giving adequate information.

The verses are Isaiah 57: 1 & 2

NKJ:

1) The righteous perishes,

And no man takes it to heart;

Merciful men are taken away,

While no one considers

That the righteous is taken away from evil.

2) He shall enter into peace;

They shall rest in their beds,

Each one walking in his uprightness.

Darby:

1)The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from before the evil.

2) He entereth into peace: they rest in their beds, [each one] that hath walked in his uprightness.

I am sure there are many theological meanings to these verse in context of the chapter, but I was only looking for those verses, thank you once again!

God's Best to all of you!

Sue

(PreciousSpouse)

[sheya joie]

Oh, I 'm so glad someone found it. I'll have to remember that one.

[Gerioke]

If you go to "My Controls at the top right, there is a place you can copy and paste things. I'm doing that right now.

Thanks for that piece of scripture.