MOST PEOPLE THINK OF DEATH AS A PLUNGE INTO OBLIVION.
tUT DEATH IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF. THERE IS A WAY TO BREAK OPEN THE TOMB!
When Henriette Juliane Caroline von Ruling died in 1782 at the relatively young age of 26, her husband Georg Earts von Ruling, was inconsolable. She has given birth to three son for him, all of whom had died at birth---and now Henriette herself was gone. Georg buried her in Gartenfriedhof in Hanover, Germany, beneath a massive rectangular stone, carved into a intricate, flowing drapery. On the tomb Georg, a poet and musician wrote, "Separation is the lot of humanity,but leaving early is life's greatest bitterness."
But it's the next line that Georg added to the base of the monument that's best remembered: "May this tomb bought for eternity never be opened."
NOTE(JB): It's easy to see Georg did not either know, or believe in the Bible's resurrections. (There's two, 1000 years apart)
It turns out that even the best human expectations fail--- even those intended for eternity. The tiny seed of the4 Birch tree fell on Henriette's tomb and washed by rain into a crevice between the massive stones. No one noticed the first tender, green shoot. Undetected, it shot upwards to the light. The roots expanded, a cell at a time. With the passing of years, the growing plant began to push apart the massive blocks of stone. It lifted the entire monument, and the iron fasteners that bound it to its foundation...snapped.
The tomb that was never to open, cracked. Today, the site s known as the Open Grave--- a destination for all who want to see how enforceable even to most stubborn of human intentions may be.
AN UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY?
Some say that death is the end, a plunge into oblivion. William Shakespeare places in the mouth of Hamlet a bitter soliloquy: "Death is the undiscovered country from whose born no traveler returns."
Note(JB) : It's obvious Mr. Shakespeare never read the Bible with understanding, for at the Second Coming, Jesus will gather His own, and the4y go to heaven, and to return 1,000 years later to this same earth!
Because no human can see what lies beyond, and because we don't know how to reanimate dead bodies and erased memories ourselves, some believe it's therefore impossible for us to be alive beyond death.
Yet everything in the human psyche opposes the finality of the grave. If we were made to die, why is this experience to alien to us? Why do we have such a clear sense of our ow3n existence, and why do we year for life to continue? Given the trails and troubles of life, asks Hamlet, shouldn't we be as happy to end life as to live it? Death "puzzles the will." he answers himself, "and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others the we know not of."
The reason we resit death,says the Bible, is that we were never meant to die. The Book opens the human story with the creation of a world in which death is not only unknown but inconceivable. One imagines that when God told Adam and Eve, "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will certainly die." [Genesis 2:17] Our first parents must have scratched their heads in puzzlement. What does it mean to die, they might have wondered, in a world where every bit of life--- every plant, bird, animal and insect is designed to be young and alive forever?
They found out when they rebelled against God, in their disobedience, that under their influence, of this sin, living things cease to live. Perhaps they first saw wilted flowers or yellowing leaves on a plant. The n they would see lifeless animals on the ground. Worse4, creatures killed one an other in a angry rage. The denouncement of this sad story came when one of their own sons killed his brother our of bitter jealousy. Adan and Evelearned what death was. We still, to this day, struggle with it!
THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITY.
Buy no human efforts, have we ever been bale to cheat death, nor to create life....cont.
{Although many have tried, in Labs around the world (JB)} As advanced as WE THINK WE HAVE BECOME in biological and medical sciences...{(JB) far enough to know that evolution is a Satanic lie] for these people.....
2 Thessalonians 2:9-13 " Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"
Cont: death still thwarts us. A handful of especially hardy people live past the century mark, but as the Psalmist observes of those last years of life, "The best of them are but troubles and sorrow" [Ps.90:10]
From whence, then, comes the power to overcome death and live again? Only from God! Hanna, the godly mother of Samuel was one of the first to see it. "The Lord brings death and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and raised up" [ 1 Samuel 2:6] Job, also was confident that "my Redeemer lives" Even "after my skin has bee n destroyed, yet in my flesh will I see God." [Job 19:25-27]
But while they had hope in their hearts, the reality had yet to be seen. For that, we can thank Jesus Christ.. In the first chapter of Revelation describes Jesus as "The Living One: I was dead, and now look, I am alive ever and ever."[Revelation 1:18] Here is life after death told, not as a doctrine, not as a dry fact, but as a true recounting. Jesus Himself, the Bible says, was dead. His heart had stopped. His stomach wasn't digesting. His liver no longer filtered His blood. The electrochemical synapses in His brain had gone silent. He was, the Bible careful to say, completely lifeless.
Yet God made Him alive again--- and in a way that could have no doubts among observers. For after "He was raised on the 3rd day, as per scriptures " ... testifies Paul,......>
NOTE (JB) : As per Jewish custom, even part of a day was counted as a whole day, Good Friday He died on the Cross, SATURDAY-- the Sabbath He rested in the tomb, Sunday the FIRST DAY of the week just before dawn He arose alive! Thus even in death Christ kept the Sabbath, The SEVENTH DAY SABBATH! [Exodus 20:7-11 Deuteronomy 5; 12-14 John 14:15*] Sunday is NOT sacred , as it is only of men, since 321 AD. and Rome's Bishops.(POPE is Latin, for Father, call no man father for your Father is in heaven....[Matthew 23:9]
......> "He appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more that five hundred of the brothers and sisters. [1 Corinthians 15:3-5]
OPENED TOMBS.
But how can there be more to life than the life we know now?What can possibly conquer death? The tiny seed that fell into Henriette's tomb may provide a metaphor.
Jesus compares death to a seed that" falls to the ground and dies."
John 12:24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
Note (JB) : I f Y O U planted one corn seed, and watered as you should, how man corn cobs will your reap? We Humans die, yes, but IF we are "SOWN" in Christ, He'll resurrect us, that are "SLEEPING" in Him!
Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.[ALL these are but metaphors for death] Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." [Please note our last breath returns to HE who created it, but that's all, our bodies return to this earth, as dust. Genesis 3:19.]
Therefore, just as the seed on the soil , is but a prelude to life, in the face of death! As both The Father-God and Jesus have live within them, that they each can give life to others, they have chosen.
2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." So, will not right now surrender you heart to the One who died for your sins and mine?
Just pray and ask for His help and guidance. You'll not ever be put on hold, or get a busy signal, nor hear, please listen as our menu, has changed.
This miracle happens through and by "The Living One" because He
Revelation 1:17-18 " And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
Because He went through death and resurrection we know He can do this for all the over comers. Those who have asked for, and received His divine help to overcome all sins.LOOK>>>
Daniel 12:2 "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."
Note(JB) : Please know that this speaks to two types of people, those who obey God and those who obey men. Revelation 20:1-6 shows the two resurrections are 1,000 years apart, this being the Millennium Age.. The first brings new life, ever youthful young adults, while the wicked will resurrect the same as they were when they died, with all the same ills, and pains. Please not only God's own will leave this earth, the unjust do not. Jeremiah 4. there was no man...
We "SLEEP"......Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."
1 Corinthians 15:51-55 "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
NOTE(JB): QUESTION, "Who can Y O U believe, God, who can not lie, or man who surely does? This is why all the Bible verses are here! Take God's word not mine! Not all resurrections will end on a happy note, not for the unbelievers, the wicked, and those who reject Jesus as their Savior-God! There shall be a judgment, for all, including Satan and his fallen angels, every knee shall bow!
PREPARING FOR DEATH.
We, all heave heard and perhaps even used the term, "Have a good day," To which I reply, "We know not how much time we are given, and repenting from the grave is not possible, do it daily!"
Unlike Adam and Eve, who came fresh from God's creative hand, we today are acquainted with death, [JB my wife if 57 years passed Feb, last but I take comfort that we shall meet again, on the other side\, Lord willing.] C: Ecc., 9:5 above.
Unlike our First Parents, death is not a surprise to us,. Wise people prepare for it: they buy life-insurance a prepared will, or living trust,, to take care of loved ones left behind.
But, preparation for death should should be more than property and estates, or survivors. If the dead chose to live again, to awaken to everlasting life, and not to, "everlasting contempt."
I, and hope that you agree, the Holy Bible is a Book of hope! There's a great reason why so many of us love the promise of John 3:16 that "WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE."
Note(JB) Sorry there's no 'shortcuts, we must also 'John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
This includes the 2nd and 4th Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.[Genesis 3:1=3] His "SIGN" for us as HIS Memorial to His Creation ACTS. the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH! Luke 23:53-56 and Luke 24:1-3. tells all who can read when, is, the Sabbath day! it ain't SUNDAY! This is but a human law.
Pikeville, Kentucky, was for decades plagued by floods that wiped out the town because of the Big Sandy River snaked, slow and flat directly through the city center. After years of destruction, one of the largest civil engineering projects in the western Hemisphere literally divided a mountain in order to relocate the river bed. The Pikeville Cut-Through is a man-made canyon where there once was a mountain..
Jesus said: Matthew 17:2 "And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you"
NOTE(JB) : Can Y O U understand the why? Because with this full faith/trust, your powers are not your own but the CREATOR GOD, that moves that mountain! After all HE spoke the whole universe into existence, from nothing! [Genesis 1]
But at the time of the end,, faith shall do something much greater. Faith will rip open the earth in search of the just dead. A Birch Tree seed grew and cracked open Henriette Juliane Caroline von Ruling's tomb. Jesus who holds the keys to hell and death, will open the crust of this earth to find every believer--- from the bottom of the sea, from collapsed mines deep underground, from the ashes of flames and from billions upon billions of entombed remains. God will reassemble the earthen elements of the earth, to give us back the life that death has robbed us of.
We, Y O U and me. and those we have loved and lost... shall be reunited, according to His will. and Henriette, too, will be united and come forth from her tomb, from death to life, to be reunited with all the just living!
NOTE(JB) : ALL who truly want to be there, will surrender their self-will unto Jesus, in loving obedience, and be in Paradise with Him forever.! R U willing? Pray for wisdom to know what to do!
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