As only children, they were to reap
the rewards of a smaller nation and, in turn, smaller families, to become a super-educated, perfect generation.
«Rev 11:18 And the
nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time
of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name,
small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.»