Would I have died instead of you, oh, Absalom, my son, my son?

Then it was told to hold the King as weeping and mourning for Absalom.

This is the exact opposite.

He stopped mourning when the baby died.

He started mourning when Absalom died.

What's the difference?

He knew the baby was in the presence of the Lord.

Absalom was not.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur, I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Currently about three and a half million babies are born each year in the United States and

before Roe vs. Wade was overturned, there were well over a half million abortions per year.

And with the millions of miscarriages and the thousands of children who die from accidents

or disease, well, the death toll of all those little ones is staggering.

What happens to all those precious children?

Find out today on Grace To You as John MacArthur continues his study, what happens to babies

who die?

And here's John now with the lesson.

There is the reality that millions, even billions, through human history of human beings

have been conceived and died before they ever reached a condition of accountability before

they could ever understand law and grace and sin and salvation, before they could ever

consciously reject the truth.

What is their eternal destiny?

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