LIFE AFTER DEATH

(1 Corinthians 15)

And now let me remind you

[Since it seems to have escaped you], brethren,

Of the Gospel –the glad tidings of Salvation--

Which I proclaimed to you, which you welcomed and accepted

And upon which your Faith Rests;

And by which you are Saved, if you Hold Fast

And Keep Firmly what I preached to you,

Unless you believed at first without effect and all for Nothing.

For I passed on to you first of all what I also had received,

That Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, died for our Sins

In accordance with [what] the Scriptures [foretold], [Isa. 53:5-12.]

That He was buried, that He arose on the Third Day

As Scriptures foretold [Ps. 16:9, 10.]

And [also] that He appeared to Cephas [Peter], then to the Twelve.

Then He showed Himself to more than Five Hundred brethren at one time,

The majority of whom are still alive, but some have fallen asleep [in death].

Afterward He was seen by James,

Then by all the apostles (the special messengers),

And last of all He appeared to me also,

As to one prematurely and Dead Born

[No better than an unperfected fetus among living men].

For I am least [worthy] of the apostles,

Who am not fit or deserving to be called an apostle,

Because I once wronged and pursued and molested the Church of God--

Oppressing it with Cruelty and Violence.

But by the grace (the unmerited favor and blessing) of God,

I am what I am, and His Grace toward me

Was not [found to be] for nothing--Fruitless and without effect.

I fact, I worked harder than all of them [the apostles],

Though it was not really I, but the Grace

(The unmerited favor and blessing) of God which was with me.

So, whether then it was I or they, you believed--

This is what we preach and this is what you believed--

What you Adhered to, Trusted in and Relied on.

But now if Christ, the Messiah, is preached as Raised from the Dead,

How is it that some of you say that there is No Resurrection of the Dead?

But if there is No Resurrection of the Dead, then Christ has not Risen;

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is IN VAIN

(Amounts to nothing) and your Faith is Devoid of Truth and is Fruitless--

Without Effect, Empty, Imaginary and Unfounded.

We are even discovered to be misrepresenting God,

For we testified of Him that He Raised Christ Whom He did not raise,

In case it is true that the Dead are not Raised.

For if the Dead are Not Raised, then Christ has not been Raised;

And if Christ has not been Raised, your Faith is mere DELUSION

(Futile, Fruitless), and you are still in your SINS--

That is under the Control and Penalty of SIN;

And further, those who have Died

In (spiritual fellowship and union with) Christ have PERISHED—ARE LOST!

If we who are [abiding] IN CHRIST have Hope only in this life, and that is all,

Then we are of all people MOST MISERABLE and to be PITIED.

But the fact is that Christ, the Messiah, has been Raised from the Dead,

And He became the First fruits of those who have fallen asleep [in death].

For since [it was] through a man that Death [came into the world, it is]

Also through a Man that the Resurrection of the Dead [has come].

But each in his own rank and turn:

Christ, the Messiah, [is] the First Fruits,

Then those who are Christ's [own will be Resurrected] AT HIS COMING.

After that comes the END (the completion),

When He delivers over the Kingdom to God the Father

After Rendering Inoperative and ABOLISHING every [other] Rule

And every Authority and Power.

FOR [CHRIST] MUST BE KING AND REIGN

Until He has put ALL [His] ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET. [Ps. 110:1.]

THE LAST ENEMY TO BE SUBDUED AND ABOLISHED IS DEATH.

(1 Corinthians 15:1-26, AMP)

Be always on the Watch,

And pray that you will be able to Escape All that is about to happen,

And that you may be able TO STAND before the Son of Man.

(Luke 21:36)

Today, the World is raging against God, rushing toward Oblivion. (Psalm 2)

This World in it's present form is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!