WHO suffered Christ to die, and then raised him again?
"Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."
John 10:17, 18
"Whom [Christ] God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death; because it was not possible that he should be holden of it."
Acts 2:24
2. How came death into the world?
"Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
Romans 5:12
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Romans 6:23
3.Why could not death hold Christ under its dominion?
"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth."
1 Peter 2:22
4. What did Christ's resurrection gain for all men?
"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead, For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
1 Corinthians 15:21, 22
5. Why did God give his son to die? and who alone are benefited by
his death?
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
"He that believeth not the Son skall not see [everlasting] life, but the wrath of God abideth on him."
John 3:36
6. With whom is this eternal life of the believer now hid?
"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
Colossians 3:3
"And this is the record that God bath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."
1 John 5:11
1 John 5:12
7. When will this eternal life be put on?
"Behold, I show 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."
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
8. Is there any exemption from the first, or temporal, death?
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
1 Corinthians 15:22
9. Who have part in the first resurrection?
"And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast,...and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years....This is the first resurrection....On such the second death hath no power."(Revelation 20:4-6)
10. Who have part in the second resurrection?
"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.(Revelation 20:5) [the rest of the dead - the wicked]
And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them."(Revelation 20:9)
Daniel 12:2
Hebrews 11:35
11. What is the second, or eternal, death? and who suffer it?
"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
Revelation 20:14, 15
[hell - margin, the grave]
"The lake which burneth with fire and brimstone...is the second death."(Revelation 21:8)
"He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death."(Revelation 2:11)
See Ezekiel 18:26.
12. What is then said of those who share the first resurrection, and so escape the second death?
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new."(Revelation 21:4, 5)
WHAT a mighty change
Shall Jesus' followers know,
When o'er the happy plains they range,
Incapable of woe!
There all our griefs are passed;
There all our sorrows end;
We gain a peaceful rest at last,
With Jesus Christ, our Friend.
No slightest touch of pain,
Nor sorrow's least alloy,
Can violate our rest, or stain
Our purity of joy.
In that eternal day,
No clouds nor tempests rise;
There gushing tears are wiped away
Forever from our eyes.
