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“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death” (1 Corinthians 15:26).
“There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying” (Revelation 21:4).
It is hard for us to imagine a world in which there is no death, for we have been accustomed to seeing everything alive in this world eventually die. Some trees live to be very old. There are Bristlecone Pines in California that are nearly 5,000 years old. Some animals also live to be very old, such as large turtles, which can live to be over 200 years old. But all of them must die eventually.
I remember one of the professors at the university I attended asking the question, “Why does everything alive in this world have to die?” He did not know that the Bible would have given him the answer. We know that death was the result of sin, for “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin” (Romans 5:12).
But eventually, through the work of the Lord Jesus on the cross, there will be no more death. This will of course be true in heaven, but it will also be true on earth. What a wonderful time that will be, when we see the full result of the suffering of the Lord Jesus!
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