Secrets from Beyond The Grave

baby would interfere with work, school, or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner."4 The psalmist wrote a fantastic word about his own conception and development in his mother's womb: For You formed 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.

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me,

When as yet there were none of them.

--Psalm 139:13-16

What God Says About Those in the Womb

In Genesis 25:21-22, Rebekah was pregnant with twin sons. As the little fellows wrestled in their mother's womb, Moses wrote, "The children struggled together in her" (Gen. 25:22). Between the conception and the birth, these twins are being identified as "children." When a child dies in the womb due to what is termed a miscarriage , that child is still called a person (infant): Why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,

Like infants who never saw light?

--Job 3:16

The word infant is the Hebrew word ´ owlel and always refers to a human being (Ps. 8:2; Hosea 13:16). In Luke 1:43, Elizabeth was calling Mary the "mother of my Lord" nearly