end: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" (Word net princton.ed) No not a final state.....a beginning of a promise!
Death is the result of sin. “For the wages of sin is death,” Romans 6:23a. The whole world is subject to death, because all have sinned. “By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). In Genesis 2:17, the Lord warned Adam that the penalty for disobedience would be death—“thou shalt surely die.” When Adam disobeyed, he experienced immediate spiritual death, which caused him to hide “from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden” (Genesis 3:8). Later, Adam experienced physical death (Genesis 5:5).
On the cross, Jesus also experienced both spiritual death (when He cried “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Matthew 27:46), and physical death (Matthew 27:50). The difference is, Adam died because he was a sinner, and Jesus, who had never sinned, chose to die as a substitute for sinners (Hebrews 2:9).
I Corinthians 15:50-58:
50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, † but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
�Death has been swallowed up in victory.
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
I greet you in the name of Jesus Christ. I pray you are well. I would have never known on that July evening that I would come face to face with a angel, and eternity. YES the white lights at the end of the tunnel are true, the feeling of peace is beyond my understanding. There is one thing that is certain Oh Death where is your sting? We have the Victory through Jesus Christ. Through it all, I rested in the Lord Jesus Christ and I know now what REAL shalom is. I pray if you are uncertain, please take your time and read this testimony. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit of the living God falls afresh upon your spirit. Thank you for taking the time to read my testimony. Death is only the BEGINNING.................. Dan Wheeler
The storms in ones life sometimes break the sails, uproot the anchor, and our lives toss and turn in the ragging seas of life, some souls sink, and are lost for eternity, others try to do it their way, some run away, try to hide from a deep burden, or scar, others seem to go on and think just as the storm never came and believe everything is OK, they say to themselves time heals and on and on we go living as though we have tomorrow. I can witness to you my friend that these storms in my life have been ragging for years now, and I often wondered why so many,when will they stop? I just wanted at times to simply give up! It is very hard to praise God and give him thanksgiving for the storms, tribulations, that come. Facing A loss of a loved one, a divorce, sickness, family problems, financial needs, yes even as a Christian one must face these things are difficult to stand up to, Christians are not amunded from such. I seemed to continue on weathering the storms, one by one. Sometimes I even doubted myself, the devil even attacked me about my salvation, What kind of God would do that to you? Even as a Christian in a Christian marriage which ended in a divorce, I asked God, Why? How can Christians do these things? Why was it I was injured and told that I never would play the organ again? Problems with my children, My father becoming sick, Financial problems, I faced them all just like we all do. You know we all face these voices inside our heads at sometimes, these voices can be of God, of the world or of the enemy. So I continued to ask myself WWJD, What would Jesus Do?. My actions I searched out God and He was always by my side and provided comfort, and a way out for me, even though at the time I couldn't understand why. Even if I sinned his grace overwhelmed my soul. We are told in God's Word that we will have tribulation but one thing my heart kept ringing out the words of Jesus Christ, be of good cheer for I have overcome the world. The promise that God would never give me more than I could bear. The devil has tried to take my joy in the Lord for many years, put doubt in my Faith and trust in God. But as I now can look back on these years, I can cry out to God with thanksgiving for the love and PEACE that is only found in Him. From doves outside my windows, to a rainbow painted on my shelf in my bedroom. God has always given me little things to remind me He was always there.
I thank God for these storms, and know why I faced them now ......That blessed assurance, that peace went back to the enemies camp and took what was mine!
It was a beautiful day as I watched the sunset from my home in the hills of West Virginia in July of 2003. I had no idea of the storm that was brewing inside my body that would come to me in the hours ahead.
Then Came The BIG STORM.... July of 2003, I was alone at my home in rural Ohio County with my dog clyde. I had just finished a poem I was working on my computer called Life After Death, dealing with Jesus and calling Lazarus from the death in the tomb to life. Who would have thought that two hours later I would lay dying in my hallway. I went to the bathroom and passed some blood, which concerned me, so I called my Mom and told her, I thought perhaps I had lifted something that day, but I didn't recall moving or lifting anything. She had told me if it kept up to call and she would come up and take me to the ER. Around midnight I started to pass more blood, now it filled the toilet bowel, so I got into my car and drove to the emergency room.
When I arrived outside there was several ambulances and people standing waiting. (It was the weekend of Jamboree in the Hills a country party, festival in St. Clairsville Ohio that brings in hundreds of thousands of people. ) I walked over to the door and several nurses were outside taking a break and I told them I was bleeding and asked them if I would have to wait a long time. They told me about 4 hours, so I got back into my car and drove home. The bleeding seemed to stop I didn't pass any more blood but was feeling sleepy so I put on my pj's and laid down and fell asleep in my computer room on the sofa.
I was awakened by a sharp pain in my lower stomach around 2:00 a.m and my pj's felt all wet. I looked down and from my waist to my feet I was covered with blood and blood clots. I fell to the floor and dragged myself into my hallway toward the bathroom. I had spoken to my mother earlier in the evening and left the portable phone on a hall tree in my hall, this is right outside the small room I was in about 6 feet away. I dialed 911 as I started to go into shock. I had lost several pints of blood. I gave the operator the wrong address and two volunteer companies were trying to find me. The operator tried to keep me awake talking to me. She told me that they were close because a dog was barking and Clyde my dog was barking and growling and would not let them in, so they were calling for the animal control, and it would take about 20 min. All the time that this was going on, I had a "peace" that was beyond all understanding, and a feeling that something or someone was right there kneeling beside me in my hallway. As I remember I watched as clyde was pushed back the hallway and placed in another room and the door was shut. (Remember I was all alone at the house.) All that I knew that there was a presence with me, like if you close your eyes and walk up close to someone, you can feel them near you.
The fireman finally got to me, as they heard the dog silence,and called the animal control and told them that the dog was in a room now with the door shut, they wondered how he made his way back through the hall and into the bedroom and closed the door. Guess what? God sent an angel that night. Those extra 20 min or so could have mattered in the fact that the woman in the ER who prayed for me was changing shifts and would not have been there in the ER at that point coming to work? God is in control. You know the footprints in the sand, only one set, well God had walked before me that night, in His time, according to His Glory, be it given as praise Him forever and ever!
Angles do God's Work, only by His authority and command!
Angels are spirit beings (Hebrews 1:14), so they do not have any essential physical form. It definitely seems that angels have the ability to take on human form. In Genesis 18:1-19, God and two angels appeared as men and actually ate a meal with Abraham. Angels appear as men many times throughout the Bible (Joshua 5:13-14; Mark 16:5). The angelic creatures described in Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 10, and Revelation 4-5 appear quite unusual. So, angels have some form of spiritual body but likely we are currently incapable of truly understanding their form. Angels also have the ability to take on other forms, such as human, in order to appear to us in a manner we can understand. Whenever angels did appear to humans in the Bible, it resulted in fear, amazement, and wonder (see Daniel chapter 10). God does send his angels, and sometimes in the form of a human even to help push a dog gently into a room. The paramedic started to work on me as several firemen brought in the gurney. I remember them saying that they thought I had been shot because blood was everywhere. PerhapsYou might question angels or them taking on the appearance of people? Angels are controlled by God and took on the appearance of people in the bible ... Time is nothing in His eyes and if he wanted to place a burning bush in my hallway so be it........ for He is in control of my life for there is no death in Him. Those min made a difference in the woman in the ER which laid hands on me and prayed for me. He is the master orchestrator of life, what He uses and how He uses is not for me to question for I trust in HIM>>>> Praise the Lord!. I was dying and growing cold to the human touch, but I was warm inside, for it was though something or someone was holding me in their arms. I know what happened and it is on 911 tape about the dog, and the animal control, and the dog being placed back in the bedroom and the door shut. Just a little time before I was reading Was not Lazarus dead? For many days, they said his body was decaying, And yet Jesus called him back to life and in the form of his body? If Many places in Gods Word it talks about "sleep" . And here I was dying. As the firemen entered they asked me where I had been shot for blood was everywhere, then they saw the bathroom as I was lying beside the door in the hallway, and told the hospital I had lost several liters. They were concerned where the dog was, but found him in the back bedroom behind a shut closed door, they looked to see if someone else was in the house to put the dog in the room. They finally got me into the ambulance and was trying to keep me awake and from going into shock. The paramedic placed Iv's in both my arms. She kept saying Mr. Wheeler, hold on, hold on, we are almost there. Well, I won't get into all the detail, only that the hospital emergency room could not locate any specialist to operate on me. My cousin works in the ER at the hospital I was taken to, and she was very concerned because I was alone and someone from the family should be with me, I told her that someone was with me, she asked who? and I just smiled at her, she was in tears because I was dying. I had lost the color in my skin and was the coat of death was coming upon me.
My night clothes were cut off, and I had things in both arms, oxygen on. Doctors and nurses were rushing around me doing all sorts of things to me. After I was semi- stabilized and catheterized, they took me to nuclear medicine for a bleed scan. It was though someone or something had remained beside me from my hallway at home, and never left my side, it was like being wrapped up in a warm blanket on a cold winters day. God had sent an angel to watch over me during this storm in my life.
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What is death? Death is the cessation of the connection between our spirit and our body. Most people believe that death takes place when the heart stops beating, when we draw our last breath, when we are placed inside a casket. Here is how the world defines death: