If God wanted old people to have children, why do women go through menopause? Will those children have normal lives? Will there be a sibling? Does the child end up caring for elderly parents before he/she graduates from high school? My husband's parents were the ages of my grandparents; his mother was 37 when he was born. His father was 45. I can't imagine a fifty-year-old woman becoming a mother for the first time.
Psalm 127
3 Lo, children
are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb
is his reward.
Sarah was old when she had Isaac, but she lived to be 127.
Genesis 18
9 And they said unto him, Where
is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
it in the tent door, which
was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah
were old
and well stricken in age;
and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
14Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Genesis 21
1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh,
so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born
him a son in his old age.
Genesis 23
1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same
is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 24
1 And Abraham was old,
and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
were coming.
64And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
65For she
had said unto the servant, What man
is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant
had said, It
is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
66And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
