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The Daily Word of Righteousness
First Corinthians, Fifteen, #24
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 25:8)
The promise of the resurrection of the dead is found in several places in the Old Testament.
Death will be swallowed up in victory as the Lord's overcomers, His mighty men in whom Christ has conquered every other enemy, descend in Divine power and glory and take up their bodies from the ground, just as the Lord Jesus took up His body from the cave of Joseph of Arimathea.
The victory of salvation, whether found in the Old Testament or the New, is the redemption of the body. This is the life that the Lord Jesus promised to those who eat His flesh and drink His blood.
It is the swallowing up of death in victory that is the goal, the message, the hope of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 15:55-57)
That we will live once again on a restored earth is the unequaled hope of the Christian Gospel. The ability to live on the earth is the redemption that is drawing near, because of which we lift up our heads during the darkest of hours. The whole creation is travailing in the pains of birth until the Kingdom of God, including the resurrection from the dead, is brought forth.
People live all their life in the fear of death. The sting of death is sin. The strength of sin is the law. By dying on the cross with the Lord Jesus we become legally free from the Law of Moses. By joining with the Lord Jesus in His resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father we escape completely the sting of death and have no fear of death.
The grave claims its authority over every person no matter how righteous, how wise, how strong, how talented. But God through the Lord Jesus Christ has mocked all the power of the grave, death, and Hell.
Whoever will give himself wholly to the Lord Jesus, keeping himself in the place where the Lord continually can give to him His flesh to eat and His blood to drink, who is learning to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, can look forward with joy to the absolute certainty that the dew on his grave will be as the dew of the morning. The hour is at hand when he will take up his body again and walk on a restored earth in an environment totally free from the Divine curse, totally free from every satanic influence.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs [dew of the morning], and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
Only the Gospel of the Kingdom of God can truly promise perfect victory over physical death and eternal life in Paradise on the earth.
To be continued.