WHEN DEATH ITSELF WILL DIE

Nothing is more common or certain than death. Yet death is never common when it takes our loved one. Six thousand years of recorded human history has found death certain and constant. No one has escaped and consequently some may believe that death will continue unabated as long as the human race exists. The Bible clearly tells us that death will be destroyed. This means the cycle of birth and death will end. God did not create man to die-but to live. And live they shall.

When will death die? Revelation 20:13,14 says, "Death and hell delivered up the dead [notice only dead people are in hell] which were in them: and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." Death and hell here are likened to a box that contains "dead" people. The box is then emptied of its dead and it is then thrown into the "lake of fire" which is the "second death." What could be plainer? Dead people are said to be in the Bible "hell." Whatever you may have heard about hell being where living souls exist to be tormented does not fit this Bible teaching. Yes, "death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them" and that is when death itself shall die. When Christ shall reign he will put down enemies, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (1 Cor. 15:21). Mankind will join in the chorus, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"(1 Cor. 15:55). The Christian religion is the only religion that teaches a triumph over death through Christ who has promised to raise the dead in the glorious resurrection hope.

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