Devotion 742
"Is Death the End? "
Reference: Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
I was reading a quote from a friend, an old classmate. He was saying that death happens to all people, and because death is the end, we should enjoy all the things of this earth. We should have much pleasure now because once we die, there is nothing more. I was wondering if this classmate of mine had any knowledge of what God has in store for those who love Him, those who have been removed from the blood of the fallen Adam into the blood of the new Adam, those who have been removed from the broken covenant of the first Adam into the new covenant of the last Adam.
No, death is not the end. Death of the physical body is the beginning of life for those who have taken their light out of the blood of falkenAdam into the blood of the new Adam, out of the blood of the first Adam into the blood of the second Adam. The same death is torment for those who remain in the blood of fallen Adam. The flood that drowned the whole world at the time of Noah was the same flood that saved Noah's boat to safety. Death for the believer is freedom, freedom from this mortal coil, this mortal body, to put on immortality. Death for the unbeliever is torture, is nightmare, is hell. Death of the physical body is not the end. It's actually the beginning.
for everything, there is a birth. There is a life. There is a death, and there is also a resurrection.
Let's take, for instance, a tomato. A green tomato is born on the mother plant, and you and I go and we cut that tomato off the mother plant. We cut it with scissors. Just like when a child is born, the midwife or the OB-GYN cuts the cord, cuts the umbilical cord of the mother.In a few days, that green tomato will go from green to yellow and to red. This is called life. What is making the tomato go from green to yellow to red is life in it. This is the word of God in his creation. It is life. This is the life that non-living things, such as a robot, don't have. A robot remains the same. It does not grow.
So the tomato progresses from green to yellow to red and then begins to decay. Just like when we are born in the maternity ward, we are brought home and we begin to grow from a baby to an infant, a toddler to a teenager to an adult. You ultimately become weak and start to die. After the tomato decays or dies and is buried, a few weeks later the tomato resurrects, comes back as the same tomato that was put down, in a whole new body. This is exactly what happens to a man or woman after death.
There is a birth, a life, a death, a burial, and a resurrection.
Let's take the sunlight, for instance. The sun is born in the morning, just like we are born in the maternity ward. By 9 a.m., the sunlight begins to get strong, just like by 9 years old we are getting strong. By 12 p.m., the sunlight is at its peak, just like at 25 years old we are at our peak. By 3 p.m., the sunlight begins to get weak, just like by 50-60 years old we begin to get weak. By 8 p.m., the sunlight is dead and buried, just like by 110 years old we are dead and buried. By the next morning, the sunlight comes right back up in a resurrection. Likewise, when we are dead and buried, we come right back up in a resurrection into eternal life or into damnation.
Death is only the beginning of the two pathways:
1. The pathway of eternal life
2. The pathway of damnation
depending on which Adam we choose with our faith on this side of life.
A man said, "The wise dies and the fool dies. What is the difference? " There is a vast difference. The wise dies in the blood of God, the blood of the last Adam, and the fool dies in the blood of the last Adam. The difference is their destinations.
Let's read:
Ecclesiastes 2:1-14 "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. [2] I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? [3] I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. [4] I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: [5] I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: [6] I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: [7] I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: [8] I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. [9] So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. [10] And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. [11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. [12] And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. [13] Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. [14] The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
Yes, one event happened to all men and women, and that one event is death. Many, with their limited understanding of death, consider this earth to be the place to have all the pleasures because the end is coming. That is not so. Death is the beginning of life, eternal life with the Creator linked in His blood, the blood of the second Adam. Death is also eternal separation into darkness for those who refused to exit the blood of fallen Adam.
We continue our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:15-16 "Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. [16] For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool."
In my friend's quote, he mentioned there's no remembrance of the dead. He explained that to mean, we don't remember the name of our friend's great-great-grandfather. He said when a person dies, we remember them for several years, but after a while they are all forgotten. We go back to our daily activities, forgotten about all the dead
But that is not so, because there are two people that will always be remembered:
1. The first Adam
2. The second Adam
Death comes by one and life comes by the other. Death came by the disobedience of the first Adam, and life came by the obedience of the second Adam. Those will forever be remembered.
We continue our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:17-24 "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. [18] Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. [19] And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. [20] Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. [21] For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. [22] For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? [23] For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. [24] There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God."
Pleasure on Earth is not the solution to death. It's pleasure after death, which comes about by choosing to place our faith in the new blood covenant, the blood of the new Adam. Death will only free this corrupt body into incorruption, into a life where there will be no more tears, no more sickness, and no more death, a life eternal with the Creator.
We conclude our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:25-26 "For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? [26] For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Life is lived in vain if the focus is on what happens on earth and not what happens after death. Life begins after our physical death. There will be two resurrections:
1. The resurrection unto damnation
2. The resurrection unto life
Choose the resurrection unto eternal life by placing your faith in the blood sacrifice of the second Adam. Believe and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we revealed Him from the first Adam. Death of the physical blood body is only the beginning, in Christ!
Reference: Ecclesiastes Chapter 2
I was reading a quote from a friend, an old classmate. He was saying that death happens to all people, and because death is the end, we should enjoy all the things of this earth. We should have much pleasure now because once we die, there is nothing more. I was wondering if this classmate of mine had any knowledge of what God has in store for those who love Him, those who have been removed from the blood of the fallen Adam into the blood of the new Adam, those who have been removed from the broken covenant of the first Adam into the new covenant of the last Adam.
No, death is not the end. Death of the physical body is the beginning of life for those who have taken their light out of the blood of falkenAdam into the blood of the new Adam, out of the blood of the first Adam into the blood of the second Adam. The same death is torment for those who remain in the blood of fallen Adam. The flood that drowned the whole world at the time of Noah was the same flood that saved Noah's boat to safety. Death for the believer is freedom, freedom from this mortal coil, this mortal body, to put on immortality. Death for the unbeliever is torture, is nightmare, is hell. Death of the physical body is not the end. It's actually the beginning.
for everything, there is a birth. There is a life. There is a death, and there is also a resurrection.
Let's take, for instance, a tomato. A green tomato is born on the mother plant, and you and I go and we cut that tomato off the mother plant. We cut it with scissors. Just like when a child is born, the midwife or the OB-GYN cuts the cord, cuts the umbilical cord of the mother.In a few days, that green tomato will go from green to yellow and to red. This is called life. What is making the tomato go from green to yellow to red is life in it. This is the word of God in his creation. It is life. This is the life that non-living things, such as a robot, don't have. A robot remains the same. It does not grow.
So the tomato progresses from green to yellow to red and then begins to decay. Just like when we are born in the maternity ward, we are brought home and we begin to grow from a baby to an infant, a toddler to a teenager to an adult. You ultimately become weak and start to die. After the tomato decays or dies and is buried, a few weeks later the tomato resurrects, comes back as the same tomato that was put down, in a whole new body. This is exactly what happens to a man or woman after death.
There is a birth, a life, a death, a burial, and a resurrection.
Let's take the sunlight, for instance. The sun is born in the morning, just like we are born in the maternity ward. By 9 a.m., the sunlight begins to get strong, just like by 9 years old we are getting strong. By 12 p.m., the sunlight is at its peak, just like at 25 years old we are at our peak. By 3 p.m., the sunlight begins to get weak, just like by 50-60 years old we begin to get weak. By 8 p.m., the sunlight is dead and buried, just like by 110 years old we are dead and buried. By the next morning, the sunlight comes right back up in a resurrection. Likewise, when we are dead and buried, we come right back up in a resurrection into eternal life or into damnation.
Death is only the beginning of the two pathways:
1. The pathway of eternal life
2. The pathway of damnation
depending on which Adam we choose with our faith on this side of life.
A man said, "The wise dies and the fool dies. What is the difference? " There is a vast difference. The wise dies in the blood of God, the blood of the last Adam, and the fool dies in the blood of the last Adam. The difference is their destinations.
Let's read:
Ecclesiastes 2:1-14 "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. [2] I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? [3] I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. [4] I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: [5] I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: [6] I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: [7] I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: [8] I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. [9] So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. [10] And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. [11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. [12] And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. [13] Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. [14] The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
Yes, one event happened to all men and women, and that one event is death. Many, with their limited understanding of death, consider this earth to be the place to have all the pleasures because the end is coming. That is not so. Death is the beginning of life, eternal life with the Creator linked in His blood, the blood of the second Adam. Death is also eternal separation into darkness for those who refused to exit the blood of fallen Adam.
We continue our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:15-16 "Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. [16] For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool."
In my friend's quote, he mentioned there's no remembrance of the dead. He explained that to mean, we don't remember the name of our friend's great-great-grandfather. He said when a person dies, we remember them for several years, but after a while they are all forgotten. We go back to our daily activities, forgotten about all the dead
But that is not so, because there are two people that will always be remembered:
1. The first Adam
2. The second Adam
Death comes by one and life comes by the other. Death came by the disobedience of the first Adam, and life came by the obedience of the second Adam. Those will forever be remembered.
We continue our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:17-24 "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. [18] Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. [19] And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. [20] Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. [21] For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. [22] For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? [23] For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. [24] There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God."
Pleasure on Earth is not the solution to death. It's pleasure after death, which comes about by choosing to place our faith in the new blood covenant, the blood of the new Adam. Death will only free this corrupt body into incorruption, into a life where there will be no more tears, no more sickness, and no more death, a life eternal with the Creator.
We conclude our reading:
Ecclesiastes 2:25-26 "For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? [26] For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit."
Life is lived in vain if the focus is on what happens on earth and not what happens after death. Life begins after our physical death. There will be two resurrections:
1. The resurrection unto damnation
2. The resurrection unto life
Choose the resurrection unto eternal life by placing your faith in the blood sacrifice of the second Adam. Believe and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we revealed Him from the first Adam. Death of the physical blood body is only the beginning, in Christ!
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