As long as we are all dating ourselves, I'll be 52 if I make it that long in the fall of 2023.

Good question Dd. I would say yes and say no if I knew we had to go thru the trib.

I'd say yes, I would bring a child into the world (I am 21 in 2 hours) and pray that they would be going in the catching up.

Lot’s children were spared because of his relationship with Yahweh (and not because they were such angels themselves—read the rest of Genesis 19). We need to address the emotionally charged issue of children in the rapture. Many commentators insist that all children “under the age of accountability” will be taken. They may be right, but there’s no scriptural basis for saying this. We are given no clear word on the issue, and precious few hints. Yahshua obviously had a special concern for them, for he said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” (Mark 10:14-15) One could argue that Yahshua was thereby guaranteeing a place in his kingdom for children who die very young, or those who are still “young and innocent” on rapture day. Still, the case for universal child rapture is pretty thin.

Perhaps we can draw some enlightenment from Paul’s observation: “I was alive once without [or, apart from] the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.” (Romans 7:9-11) Our infants possess the same sin nature we all inherited from Adam. But the implication could be drawn from this passage that those who have never actually committed a willful sin themselves—the kind of hand-in-the-cookie-jar experience that they knew was wrong when they did it—will be accounted as “alive” at the rapture. On the other hand, not having willfully sinned is not at all the same thing as having a relationship with Yahweh.

I’m going to go out on a theological limb here, but it appears to be solid enough. Children who are not mature enough to make their own spiritual choices may be raptured or left behind on the basis of their parents’ faith (SF4). They may be “saved” through the faith of either their mother or father—or left behind to face the last days with their unbelieving parents. Remember, there were children in Sodom who suffered the same fate as their evil parents, though Lot’s less-than-perfect daughters were rescued with him. Paul writes, “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.” (I Corinthians 7:14) This, of course, puts a huge responsibility on the shoulders of parents (it’s there anyway), for their kids’ eternal fate is linked to their parents’ in the rapture.

This is not quite as unfair as it may sound for those kids left behind, however. A few years will probably pass between the rapture and the Tribulation, and the Tribulation itself will last seven years, so a four-year-old child of non-Christian parents at the time of the rapture could easily be (I’m guessing) thirteen or fourteen by the time Yahshua returns in His glory—plenty of time to figure it out and make his own choice. In other words, such a child has the same opportunity to make right or wrong decisions as anyone else on earth, before or after the rapture. I have a feeling that kids will “grow up fast” during this time. The trick will be staying alive long enough to make the right choices.

Old thread, but this is a topic I've been thinking about for a few weeks. I'll be 35 in late 2023 (I think I'm the youngest on the forum). I'm way too young to get married and have kids now. I might not even get married since I would want my wife to have the same understanding I now have because of YY. So now i've gotta find a girl that i'm attracted to, that's attracted to me, that won't hate my guts after a year or two, that might be ok with abandoning her career/family/etc. here to move with me to Southeast Asia, and NOW she has to be willing to reject the Churches false teachings (P.S. There's a deadline of 2023 now too)! I have a real passion for marriage (and girls...) and family, so I've always thought that I was meant to get married, but now it seems impossible to me. Then again, Yahweh is an expert in making the impossible happen. I wouldn't be that surprised if I bumped into that girl tomorrow. Or if i even know her already.

Even if I met the perfect girl tomorrow, I wouldn't know for sure for at least a year, maybe longer. And even then, I have no money and i'm really young. So i'd want to wait until I was out of college in 2.5 years to get married. So the earliest i'd probably get married would be late 2010. By 2023, the oldest my kid could be (assuming i have him/her withIN the marriage) would be 12ish. If kp is right, that shouldn't be a problem.

Actually, when I started writing this, I was under the idea that i wouldn't want to have kids so close to the trib, but now I really like that idea.

Even if I met the perfect girl tomorrow, I wouldn't know for sure for at least a year, maybe longer. And even then, I have no money and i'm really young. So i'd want to wait until I was out of college in 2.5 years to get married. So the earliest i'd probably get married would be late 2010. By 2023, the oldest my kid could be (assuming i have him/her withIN the marriage) would be 12ish. If kp is right, that shouldn't be a problem.

If I get a vote, I vote for 2009, the next Feast of Trumpets that falls on a Sabbath. 'Course, I'm just being selfish. Good thing this ain't a democracy :-)