Section 15
and the body also will be life. When this happens, death, the last enemy, will be swallowed up.
THE LAST ENEMY
Death is not only God's last enemy; it is our last enemy too. The last enemy is not sin, the law, or the flesh; it is death. In the eyes of God nothing is as abominable as death. Not even sin is as abominable as death. God hates death even more than sin. Sin is against what God does, but death insults what God is. Sin opposes God's righteousness, but death insults God's very being. Suppose a little boy plays in the mud and be comes very dirty. No matter how dirty he may be, we still will love him and be willing to play with him. However, suppose the little boy dies and is laid out in a coffin. Although he may be fully clean, we will not want to be with him. In stead, we will flee, not because he is dirty, but because he is dead.
I am troubled by the fact that so many Chris tians fear uncleanness, but are not concerned about deadness. But, to repeat, God hates death more than sin. In typology, if a person was contaminated by an unclean thing, he could be cleansed rather easily and in a short period of time. But if he touched any dead thing, it took