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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on His cross was the most decisive event of all history—yes, let’s tell the truth, of all eternity. The fate of God’s throne was in the balance; Satan wanted to push God off His throne and take over.

 

The death that Jesus suffered on that cross was a different kind of death than anybody else had ever suffered. The truth is that only one Man has ever truly died since the world began—everybody else who has “died” has simply gone to sleep. Jesus’ death was the real thing—it was total, eternal darkness, enduring death forever. The Bible distinguishes between two different kinds of death—the “sleep” that Lazarus suffered when he died (and which everybody experiences), and what Revelation says is “the second death” (2:11; 20:12-14). The latter is what Jesus died.

 

Sorry, some will object by saying, “But He didn’t go through the Lake of Fire! And He was resurrected!” Do they mean to demean or belittle the sacrifice of Jesus? Read the entire passage—the horror that Jesus went through in order to save your soul and mine was worse than the physical pain that any fire could be. The commitment He made was infinitely total.

 

If Jesus was the only Man who ever suffered that kind of death, then the apostle Paul has to be the outstanding one who came to appreciate the dimensions of love (agape) which led the Son of God to die that death for us (Eph. 3:14-21). Therefore Paul, saved by grace, has proven forever that it’s possible for 144,000 also (figurative or literal number) to “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth” (Rev. 14:5, 6). If “the love of Christ constrained” Paul to live only for Jesus, the universe can witness you and me constrained in this Day of Atonement to live only for Him, as He lived and died for us.

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