Bible Questions Answered:
“...after the accident, you could
just feel the awful stench of death in the air everywhere...”
Adrian/ Bavaria, Germany (Nuremberg)
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
I Corinthians 15:25,26 NLT
25 For Christ must reign until He
humbles all His enemies beneath His feet.
26 And the last enemy to be
destroyed is death.
Our Living God, never created man to
know fear, sickness, sorrow or death.
Death, is an enemy, separating loved
ones, sometimes for the last time.
But our God is greater than death!
Three times The Lord Jesus conquered
death, while on earth.
Mark 5:21-24; 35-43 NLT (The
Raising of Jarius' daughter.)
21 Jesus got into the boat again and
went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered
around Him on the shore.
22 Then a leader of the local
synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell
at His feet,
23 pleading fervently with Him. “My
little daughter is dying,” He said. “Please come and lay your
hands on her; heal her so she can live.”
24 Jesus went with him, and all the
people followed, crowding around Him.
35 While He was still speaking...
messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the
synagogue. They told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use
troubling The Teacher now.”
36 But Jesus overheard them and said
to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
37 Then Jesus stopped the crowd and
wouldn’t let anyone go with Him except Peter, James, and John (the
brother of James).
38 When they came to the home of the
synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing.
39 He went inside and asked, “Why
all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only
asleep.”
40 The crowd laughed at Him. But He
made them all leave, and He took the girl’s father and mother and
His three disciples into the room where the girl was lying.
41 Holding her hand, He said to her,
“Talitha koum,” which means “Little girl, get up!”
42 And the girl, who was twelve
years old, immediately stood up and walked around! They were
overwhelmed and totally amazed.
43 Jesus gave them strict orders not
to tell anyone what had happened, and then He told them to give her
something to eat.
Luke 7:11-17 NLT
(The raising the widow's son at Nain.)
11 Soon afterward Jesus went with
His disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed Him.
12 A funeral procession was coming
out as He approached the village gate. The young man who had died was
a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with
her.
13 When The Lord saw her, His heart
overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” He said.
14 Then He walked over to the coffin
and touched it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” He said, “I
tell you, get up.”
15 Then the dead boy sat up and
began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother.
16 Great fear swept the crowd, and
they praised God, saying, “A mighty prophet has risen among us,”
and “God has visited His people today.”
17 And the news about Jesus spread
throughout Judea and the surrounding countryside.
John 11:1-44 KJV
1 Now a certain man was sick, named
Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed
The Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose
brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto
Him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, He said,
This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that
The Son Of God might be glorified
thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her
sister, and Lazarus.
6 When He had heard therefore that
He was sick, He abode two days still in the same place where He was.
7 Then after that saith He to His
disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 His disciples say unto Him,
Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither
again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not
twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth
not, because he seeth The Light of this world.
10 But if a man walk in the night,
he stumbleth, because there is no Light in him.
11 These things said He: and after
that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that
I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said His disciples, Lord, if
he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death:
but they thought that He had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them
plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that
I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go
unto him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called
Didymus, unto His fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die
with Him.
17 Then when Jesus came, He found
that he had lain in the grave four days already.
18 Now Bethany was nigh unto
Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to
Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard
that Jesus was coming, went and met Him: but Mary sat still in the
house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus,
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother
shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto Him, I know
that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am The
Resurrection, And The Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and
believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto Him, Yea, Lord: I
believe that thou art The Christ, The Son Of God, which should come
into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she
went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master
is come, and calleth for thee.
29 As soon as she heard that, she
arose quickly, and came unto Him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into
the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him.
31 The Jews then which were with her
in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up
hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave
to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where
Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him,
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her
weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, He groaned in
the spirit, and was troubled.
34 And said, Where have ye laid him?
They said unto Him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how He
loved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not
this Man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even
this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in
Himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take ye away the
stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto Him, Lord,
by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not
unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the
glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone
from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up His eyes,
and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard Me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest Me
always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they
may believe that thou hast sent Me.
43 And when He thus had spoken, He
cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about
with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
And our Lord,
Himself was victorious over death and the grave!
John 10:17,18
KJV
17 Therefore doth My Father love Me,
because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 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.
Romans 1:3,4 KJV
3 Concerning His Son Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was made of The Seed Of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be The Son Of God
with power, according to The Spirit Of Holiness, by the resurrection
from the dead:
I Corinthians
15:3,4 KJV
3 For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures;
4 And that He was buried, and that
He rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Our risen Savior,
is triumphant!
Revelation 1:18
KJV
I am He that liveth, and was dead;
and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell
and of death.
God's Son our
Savior will one day call all from the grave!
John 5:28,29 KJV
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour
is coming, in the which all that are in
the graves shall hear His voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life;
and they that have done evil, unto
the resurrection of damnation.
How wonderful will
be the day, (coming) when death itself, will be destroyed!
I Corinthians
25,26 KJV
25 For He must reign, till He hath
put all enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death.
Isaiah 25:8 KJV
He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces..."
