God's Plan To Do Away With Death: The Death Sentence - 12:50 PM, 6/13/2008

GOD'S  PLAN  TO  DO  AWAY  WITH  DEATH:   PART ONE

Bernard Pyron

The Death Sentence


"But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not
trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead. (II Corinthians
1: 9)"


To God sin was so terrible that he gave Adam and Eve and all their
descendants the death sentence for Adam's disobedience. Physical death
followed by eternal death is a dreadful sentence for sin.


The death sentence made it necessary for a merciful God to plan and
carry out the great work of Christ on the cross, where his death made
it possible for him to destroy sin, death and stop Satan from having
the power to execute more death.


Sin put mankind, the creation, the ground (Genesis 3: 17), the
descendants of Adam (Genesis 3: 19) and creatures below man (Romans 8:
20) under the curse of an early death, as well as corruption and
disorder. But because of God's plan to abolish death, at the appearing
of Christ, the earth, the saints and perhaps our animal friends will
be "...delivered from the bondage of corruption" to eternal life
(Romans 8: 21).


In Genesis 2: 17 God warned Adam not to eat of one particular tree,
which he called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told
Adam "...in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."


But in Genesis 3: 5 the devil told Eve that "...God doth know that in
the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be
as gods, knowing good and evil."


When God said in Genesis 3: 22 that "Behold, the man has become as one
of us, to know good and evil..." he may have been ridiculing Adam for
following Eve in falling for the deception of Satan.


The commandment not to eat of this one tree was most likely a test of
the obedience of Adam to God. God had given Adam all the trees of the
Garden to eat of, but this one tree. Because Adam could eat of all the
trees, except this one, his disobedience was greater. Adam did not
accept God's rule over him, even though that rule was not hard to
bear.


In fact, had Adam accepted God's rule and had not disobeyed, he, Eve
and their descendants would have had immortal life. For God did say in
Genesis 3: 22 that "...lest he put forth his hand, and take also of
the tree of life and eat, and live forever..." In verse 23 God drove
Adam and Eve out of the Garden.


Genesis 3: 19 declares the sentence of death upon Adam and all his
descendants. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return."


In Genesis 3: 17 God cursed the ground because of Adam's
transgression, so the ground would bring forth thistles, or weeds. My
ground here in Missouri seems to be cursed because it grows weeds
better than vegetables.


In Romans 8: 20 the "ktisis" was subject to vanity, or futility, where
ktisis in the King James is translated as creature. Since Adam was
made head of the animals on earth, when he fell, the animals may also
have been sentenced to an early death, and perhaps reduced in
intelligence.


After the Fall, the earth is no longer as comfortable a place, and on
earth it became harder to sustain life. The sentence of physical death
on Adam and Eve and their descendants resulted in disease and
suffering leading up to that death.


The sentence of death also included the second death of Revelation 2:
11, 20: 6 and 21: 8 which is eternal separation from God and receiving
his wrath at the same time.

As a result of the Fall of Genesis 3 the image of God in Adam was
corrupted or deformed. Adam may also have lost some of his moral
capability. He and his descendants in fact died a moral death, a loss
of the righteousness of God in them. With the death sentence came our
sin nature, our inability to be totally free of sin, and bondage to
our flesh, which Paul describes in Romans 7 and 8. He says "...we had
the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in
ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead (II Corinthians 1: 9)."


God put the sentence of death upon the whole human race because of
Adam's disobedience. Sin is imputed to everyone. In addition to that
imputation, we all sin. God's sentence of both physical death and the
second death shows how offensive he considers sin.


But Genesis 3: 15 predicts that the seed of the woman, that is, Jesus
Christ, "...shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
"Thy" is Satan. Paul in Romans 14: 20 promises that ""...the God of
peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly." Christ will bruise
the devil under the feet of the saints.


In Romans 8: 19-22 Paul tells us that "...the earnest expectation of
the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the
creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of
him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself
shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."


Verse 20 tells us that the creature, or ktisis in Greek, the creation,
but also the animals and maybe people, was subjected to "vanity." The
Greek New Testament word translated as vanity is mataioteti, or
mataios, which the Harold K. Moulton Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised
(1978) on page 259 tells us can mean fruitless, ineffective, corrupt
or perverted. Futile might be another translation of mataios.

A very similar word, "mataioo" means to fall into error or false
belief in Romans 1: 21 where it says "...they glorified him not as
God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations."
"Became vain" is from emataiothesan, which is the aorist passive form
of mataioo. It means that at some time in the past they passively
received "futile thinking."


The Greek word translated as "creature" in Romans 8: 20 is more
important. The word in Greek is ktisis. The King James translates
ktisis as creature in verses 19, 20 and 21, but as creation in verse
22.


We need to know if ktisis could have meant both the creation and the
creature, only part of the creation. Moulton's 1978 Greek Lexicon
Revised on page 242 defines ktisis as creation, the material universe,
a created thing, a creature.

The definitions of ktisis below are from the New Testament Greek
Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Lexicon on
http://www.bible.crosswalk.com/lexicons/greek/


Ktisis can mean:

1. "The act of creation;

2. Creation, i.e., thing created, of individual things, beings, a
creature, a creation;

3. Anything created;

4. After a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to
Judaism was called);

5. The sum or aggregate of things created."


Some kind of restoration and glory will be given to all creatures at
the appearing of Christ, or soon thereafter. Paul declares that
creatures, and perhaps the entire creation, were subjected to
corruption for the disobedience of Adam. But the creature is to
delivered from the bondage of corruption "...into the glorious liberty
of the children of God."


It appears from this verse that there will be a restoration of the
creatures. This can mean that our dogs, cats and other close animal
friends would be brought back to us - and/or we will be given new
animal friends who will be immortal. Matthew Henry in his commentary
on Romans 8: 21 says of these animals friends that "What use they will
be of to glorified saints? We may suppose them to be of as much use as
they were to Adam in innocency; and if it be only to illustrate the
wisdom, power and goodness of their creator, that is enough." We do
not know what kind of relationship Adam had with animals who came in
contact with him before his Fall, but whatever it was, our relation to
immortal animal friends may be even better.


The Devil Is A Murderer

In John 8: 44, when Christ was talking to the Pharisees (John 8: 13)
he told them that "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him."


By telling Eve lies, Satan led her and then Adam to disobey God, and
that sin lead to their death - and to the deaths of all their
descendants. Therefore, in leading Adam and Eve into sin, which leads
to death, Satan was a murderer.

Satan also inspired Herod to try to have Jesus as a baby killed
(Matthew 2: 13). He led the Jews and Pharisees to try to kill the
adult Christ before his crucifixion (Matthew 12:14, John 5: 18, John
7: 1, John 10: 31).


Because the devil tried to get Christ killed prematurely, he might
have thought that Jesus would lead his people out of bondage to sin,
death and Satan merely by his example and through his teachings. And
so the devil would have wanted to stop Christ from doing this.


But Christ made it possible to do away with sin, death and the power
of death in Satan by Christ's suffering and death on the cross. Christ
had to take on the flesh of a man and die as a man in order to defeat
the devil.


Satan is the destroyer, or apollyon, in Revelation 9: 11. He is the
executioner who carries out the sentence of death. He constantly
brings charges before God against the the brethren. Revelation 12: 10
notes that "...the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night."


The devil has been a murderer over the many centuries since he
inspired the murder of Abel by Cain, and since he tried to prematurely
murder Christ.


The devil separates souls from bodies. He not only brings physical
death but also the second death. He delights in the death of members
of the human race.


In addition, Satan is certainly behind the population reduction
agenda. The ruling elite has long had a plan to drastically reduce the
population of the world, and this agenda includes causing Americans to
die prematurely - or to be aborted prior to birth. The minions of the
ruling elite, the environmentalists, New Age Occultists, Satanists,
top operators in the pharmaceutical industry, high level doctors,
federal agents and some university professors, have been calling for
the elimination of a large percentage of people now alive.


Henry Kissinger in 1974, as a top official in the Nixon regime, wrote
a then secret National Security Memorandum (NSM 200) on population
reduction. Kissinger said that "Overpopulation should be the highest
priority of the U.S. toward the Third World (see
http://www.geocities.com/mypinkmagazine/aids.html)


The elimination of a large part of the population of the Third World
has been official U.S. policy since the seventies. Iraq and
Afghanistan are Third World countries and have been given the war
treatment for population reduction.


Population reduction in the U.S. is also a goal of the ruling elite,
although Kissinger in 1974 may not have wanted to reveal this goal.
For example, federal cancer research labs, along with Litton Bionetics
and Merck Pharmaceutical Corporation, and the Cell Tumor Biology Lab
of the National Cancer Institute developed several immune system
destroying agents prior to 1979.


AIDS was one of these agents. It was deliberately given to American
homosexuals in the hepatitis B vaccine in New York City, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, St Louis and Denver in 1979. See Leonard
Horowitz, Emerging Viruses: AIDS, and Ebola - Nature, Accident or
Intentional.