"Imagine this headline in today’s newspaper: Cure Found for Death! Newspapers would soon be sold out. Every television and computer would be tuned to the news channels. Everyone would be scrambling to find out what this fantastic announcement had to say. But suppose the article or news report under the headline reported that a traveling teacher has announced that he personally is the cure for death — he has not made a scientific discovery, nor a new medical breakthrough, nor found some secret fountain of youth — but by revelation he has proclaimed himself as the source of life and immortality! We might begin to suspect that he’s just another religious teacher who has gotten carried away with delusions of self-importance, even if he has raised a few dead people back to life. And when we read about his claim that the only way to escape death is to believe in him, we’d say, “How preposterous!” Perhaps its not surprising that relatively few people take Jesus’ bold statement seriously — “He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (Jn. 11:25-26). After all, it’s probably the most startling claim that anyone has ever made! Why should anyone believe it? We should believe it, not because Jesus raised Lazarus after he had been dead for four days, but because Jesus Himself arose after He died for us — and because He still lives today! The Lamb that was slain is in the midst of the throne, and He has sent forth from the throne the very spirit of His life into us by the power of the Holy Ghost! It is a glorious fact, for we have received it! Christ alone has the credentials to claim that He can give life and immortality to men!"
Much more in the link:
https://www.godfire.net/eby/Rev/rev237.html
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"There are many deaths! Eve in the garden disobeyed God and, as a result of that disobedience, came into the first and fundamental death, which is a separation from the life that is in God, that is, in the spirit. “The spirit is life” (Rom. 8:10)."
"Physical death is not the cause of death! Physical death was not the death that separated our original parents from the life of God, thrusting them into the realm of death! Oh, no! Physical death is not the cause of anything — it is just the end result of another, greater, more fundamental, and powerful death. The death which results in physical death is the one Paul referred to when he wrote, “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:1,6)."
"We were dead in trespasses and sins…and that, my friend, is the death which caused all the woe and suffering and sorrow and sickness and pain and shame."
shall be no more death .. Because everyone will already be dead.
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Why should death have any victory at all?
There will be no more death because He will redeem and reconcile all of creation to Himself in the fullness of time. Right there all throughout the Scriptures.
Hell is the state and fate of the dead (here and in the life to come) that all men find themselves in from birth. The last enemy to cease is death, which means it will end eventually. If death is not eternal, then Hell can't be either.
So very simple.
Yes!
Thank you for joining my last two threads on the topic. I think this teaching is greatly needed by the body of Christ. I ignored the book of Revelation for 40 years as a Christian because I did not understand it, that is why I'm sharing this series here. I believe it is time for the Revelation of Jesus Christ to shine through, GAW is a good field to proclaim it.
Yea I was just making a smart aleck comment and no thinking biblically.
"Duane Kennedy wrote: “I saw a grim specter walking up and down, to and fro throughout the earth; and he would reach out his bony finger and touch a man or a woman. When he touched them, in an instant, millionaires became paupers, the well became ill, the young became old, the Marathon runner, palsied; and they all died. And I said, ‘What is the name of this specter that walks up and down amidst the earth?’ The answer came back, ‘His name is Death.’ For more than 40 centuries this grim tyrant had conducted his ghastly business, killing men and women and dragging their corpses into his cold palace. Kings and conquerors had all fallen to his fatal touch. There was none strong enough to withstand his approach."
“Then one Passover evening there appeared a stranger outside the doors of that icy palace, a palace filled with bones, for even the chalices on the table were shining skulls. The columns were made of bones, and the beams of the ceiling were of human bones. Back and forth within that ghastly castle walked this tyrant who knew no fear of man. Then this stranger rolled back the doors and stepped within that cold palace and, unafraid, approached that mighty tyrant, grasped him with one hand, lifted him up, threw him to the pavement, and placed upon his neck the heel of triumph."
“Then this mighty stranger, for three days and three nights, walked amidst the caverns of that castle of death. Through the labyrinthine corridors of horror he went until he found the two main pillars which held up the whole domain. He rocked them back and forth until the whole thing began to crumble down; and then he took up the ponderous gates, lifting them off their hinges, and marched forth with a shout of victory, ‘I am the resurrection and the life!’ (Jn. 11:25). Our Jesus had conquered death! And then I saw a beautiful being walking to and fro, and up and down throughout the earth. And this being reached out his hand and touched, first one person and then another. At his touch the poor became rich, the sick became well, the palsied became whole, the blind saw, the deaf heard, the lame leaped for joy; and I said, ‘Who is that beautiful being who walks through the earth?’ The answer came back, ‘His name is Life.’ ‘He that hath the Son of God hath LIFE.’”
"That is what it means when the scripture says that our Lord Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power and was raised from the dead “by the spirit of holiness” (Rom. 1:4). Oh, yes! It wasn’t His resurrection into a glorified body that made Him the Son of God with power. And it wasn’t His resurrection from the dead in a glorified body that made Him holy and free from sin. Oh, no! Rather, it was the SPIRIT OF HOLINESS that qualified Him as the Son of God with power. It was likewise the SPIRIT OF HOLINESS that raised Him from the dead, giving Him a body of glory! Can we not see by this that it was His victory over the first fundamental death, dead in trespasses and sins, and victory over the separation that death brought, that made Him the Son of God with power. He was not separated from the life that was in God, for He sinned not, and therefore He could say that He lived by the Father that dwelt in Him. No sin! No separation! The result? “Raised from the dead BY THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS!” Jesus was the first man in whom the first fundamental death was overcome. The natural, unavoidable result of that was the acquisition of a body of glory in which no death dwells! If you try to somehow obtain an incorruptible, immortal body without first being clothed upon in the totality of your being with the spirit of holiness, which is the spirit of Christ’s sonship, you will be very disappointed when you finally breathe your last natural breath."