{"id":666,"date":"2022-01-31T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/springhavenfellowship.com\/wp\/?p=666"},"modified":"2022-01-31T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:17:15","slug":"666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springhavenfellowship.com\/wp\/reflections-from-dan\/666\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a> God said, \u201cOf every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.\u201d When Adam ate of the tree they didn&#8217;t die that day. But that day their death was assured. God explained that life in the presence of sin would be hard. In time they realized death was a gracious blessing. Enough is enough. But in their remaining days they came to realize that with everything else God had provided He provided a way back. There was a way to turn a disaster into a detour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> It is a privilege to have been born \u2013 even to this sick world. We have time to grow up, to learn, to accept God&#8217;s provision of salvation and ongoing life (or not), to expand the field of relationships with children and pass to rest. We may enter this rest, this death with hope, hope that God recovers and remembers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Death comes in two flavors. \u201c&#8230;the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth\u2014those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation\u201d John 5:28, 29. \u201cBlessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power\u201d Revelation 20:6. \u201cHe who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death\u201d Revelation 21:7, 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note the language \u201csecond death.\u201d This is death. This death is permanent. This is NOT eternal life in flaming agony. I have heard some scoff at the idea of annihilation of the wicked, of anyone. Just remember, \u201cyou shall not surely die\u201d was stated by the deceiver. Though Adam bought into Satan&#8217;s ideas, God provided a way for Adam and his offspring to recover and have the sentence commuted. In grace God provided death as the escape from the wages of, the inherent pains and consequences of sin. 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