NO MORE DEATH 7-12
NO MORE DEATH 7
Growth occurs only when death happens!
God blessed mankind to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, to have dominion over all other things. God expected that man would be fruitful in himself, then spread out multiplying. He expects that man will flourish, become heavy with seed, of the fruit of the Spirit that might be planted. "For except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone". It implies the only way up, to increasing and multiply, to filling the earth is to be planted! THIS IS THE MULTIPLYING THAT GOD BLESSED MANKIND WITH IN THE BEGINNING. Most marriages lack this prerequisite –this kind of death, so the couples abide separately. The man lives separate loving his family, the woman lives separate in contention, each in constant battle to get the best for their selves. Marriage requires marring – death of both parties, a crushing of them to thrive. That they together, may form a truly new home, where God can dwell. When this happens, the result is exponential - two chasing ten thousand!
NO MORE DEATH 8
When things return as they were, without a loss, consuming death has occurred.
God is a consuming Fire. He burns! I could have tagged this piece "Hell fire" but decided to choose a milder title – consuming death, to buttress some points. It is written, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was, who is and is to come." In heaven, on earth and beneath the earth where hell is, God is eternally holy – Holy, Holy, Holy! Anywhere God is or chooses to abide is His heaven. God, sometimes visits the earth through the angel of the Lord, and does not ascend until He's accomplished His purpose like in the days of Moses. God is as holy in heaven, in hell and there's just no difference! From creation, God determined that when everything shall cease to exist, it'll be by a consuming fire, beginning from hell. As everything came to being from nothing will they return to nothingness. Yet, no loss! Finally, in "holy destruction" everything will come to obey God. Like vapour everything will disappear under a fervent heat. GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE, NOT A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. All that God wants to see hereafter is the man He has created - male and female in His likeness, those He's made by His word.... Are you a person of God's word? Are you made by God? Do you live at God's command? How valuable are His words to you? Only those who live by God's word will stand, forever and ever.... For this heaven and earth shall pass away!!
NO MORE DEATH 9
About seven thousand demons are chained down in Tartarus.
A man of the Gadarenes met Jesus the Nazarene and confessed there were a legion of them living in him, for he was demon possessed. This man was boundless and couldn't be restrained by whatsoever means, a prototype of the demons afflicting him. Devils naturally don't tell truths because it is not their native language, but sometimes, they do, just that they are not used to it. The Lord was gracious to this mad man, He granted his prayers and healed him of his bedeviling circumstance that same instance. Tartarus is another "hell", a dark place and of the dead in hell's prison where rebellious spirits which wouldn't remain in their own "little" estates are chained awaiting judgment. And the angels who did not keep their position of authority but abandoned their home –about a thousand who willingly turned against God, are chained with this six thousand – a total of Seven thousand! Altogether, they make the entire universe turbulent and ungovernable. They infused their spirits into others and things by their giving spirit to have people subdued. These are they which made the earth chaotic and empty, rendered it a wilderness and formless. They work for the Antichrist. They're the very tares of the evil One sown among God's wheat, to be set on fire at the harvest. They had been empowered to control the universe, even through prayers –for an hour, even unrighteous praying! Yes, as Lord Jesus came in flesh, these also come in flesh.... As for whether they'd repent? Maybe.
NO MORE DEATH 10
Repentance at the valley of the shadow of death is Death.
When God deploys all strategies to save a life and don't seem yielding, then He brings them to the valley of the shadow of death, where death is hell. Coming to God via sicknesses and diseases, all the shadows of death could be likened to entering a house or building through the roof - breaching securities to reach Jesus! Yes, these can get you straight in front of JESUS the physician but mostly, they don't get you the salvation which is the ultimate. SALVATION IS ONLY THROUGH THE DOOR. Other openings like "giving-windows", "love-fences" "deliverance-crumbs" etcetera, don't get you "saved" but may provide you some succour a time being. Or of what benefit is having good health without good thoughts toward God and mankind? O yes, salvation makes you really good - living the good life that blesses the entire creation! Jonah was in the belly of the fish – in Hell, three days and three nights before God delivered him, but did that change his thinking faculty and reasoning? If eventually the prophet was changed and became a new creation, it was because of God's word sent him expressly - "You've been concerned about the vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who can't tell their right hand from their left and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great City?"
NO MORE DEATH 11
When death occurs while life persists, it is unphysical.
A perfect example to this unphysical death is Enoch. He was God's agent and had fellowship with Him. Enoch walked with God by faith and lived the good life, even though it was pretty difficult. He had faith and believed God's very word. The Spirit of the Lord whispered to him simple words of salvation, "MAN IS CREATED TO LIVE FOREVER" and he believed! Not just that, he demonstrated his faithful life by living as though life's forever. Enoch pleased God. After he begat his heir Methuselah, he had consistent fellowship with God, 300 years manifesting-witnessing-preaching righteousness that God was coming with myriad of angels to judge the world, of their every carelessly spoken words. Then he was taken, not experiencing the "usual" death. All his other contemporaries and people of his days remaining who scoffed at his seriousness about God, died in the Flood. Research even has it that Methuselah who lived 969years was terminated by the flood of Noah – all disbelievers. "Flesh and blood cannot inherent the kingdom of God which is the everlasting life", and so an unphysical death would have taken place to forestall Enoch's exit and preparedness for ascension to heaven. He actually bypassed death, but not without dying – to Self.
NO MORE DEATH 12
When we ask to die, we die indeed.
After that great revival at Mount Carmel and the people's hearts were turned back to the LORD the holy One of Israel, Elijah's life was threatened by the wife of the King, Jezebel. Fire had fallen from heaven on the prepared offering and burned up an acceptable sacrifice to God. This sparked life back into Lord's people as it was then, in the days of Moses disciple of the Lord when erected the Tabernacle and days of Solomon, son of David when built the Temple. Fire fell but didn't fall on Jezebel, an enemy of the Lord, with her 450 prophets foretelling and assuring her of a better tomorrow without God. They were slaughtered by Elijah the man of God for failing to prove strange gods for Israel. The master Baal was forbidden for God's people, yet Jezebel's prophets worshipped without restrained, enquiring from it. Elijah being afraid, ran away leaving his servant behind to hide under a broom tree, asking that his life would end. It was the poorest state of life for the man of God. God appeared and helped him, had him fed from bread baked on burning coals. He walked, worked and lived 40days without food. ELIJAH DIED. Elisha and two other mighty men were blessed by his life after that experience. Whatsoever we ask or desire actually happens, even death.
