Death IV
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (I Corinthians 15:26 ESV)
God’s Enemy, Death
Death, the normal end of some things that once had a form of life, was once a part of God’s pronouncement that creation, when finished, was “very good.”
But now He had changed death… for humans, death had become the pinnacle of His wrath. That which was created without the need for death, people, now would die.
Death had become an enemy of God.
And He promised to end death’s new job.
That promise was fulfilled when He used the Messiah, His beloved Son, Jesus, to defeat death.
But look how much God hated death. From the hints of a promise in Genesis 3:15, where God promised that Satan would be crushed by a Redeemer, all the way through the moment when Jesus declared on the cross that that, “It is finished!” God worked tirelessly to promise, and enact, a way to un-promote death.
God is just, so He must keep His own law. And He loves His people with the same fortitude and power that He hated His judgement against Adam’s race (human).
But His tireless work bore amazing fruit!
God’s enemy, death, would fall to Him just like all His other enemies… sin, the world, and Satan.
Being God’s enemy is a dangerous state to be in. And death, too, is overcome by God Himself!