The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

that “the sting of death is sin,” going awry of the Creator’s laws of life and code of living. Not only do people die because they have dead spirits, but their world is filled with death. Everything about them is undergoing the same disease so that what does not enter to destroy them will emerge from them as destruction. That is why people age, get injured, get sick, and eventually die. It is also why people compulsively kill people. From the moment of conception, death is at work in them using up their natural life reserves (unless they are dealt a mortal blow that releases all their life reserves at once) to kill them. When Jesus said He came that they might have life and have it more abundantly, this is what He meant more than anything because a new spiritual life (force and source) is needed to replenish what humans expend daily and ultimately exhaust to the point of their death. 355. Death (Spiritual)—“Far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity. For He repays man according to his work, and makes man to find a reward according to his way. Surely God will never do wickedly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice. Who gave Him charge over the earth? Or who appointed Him over the whole world? If He should set His heart on it, If He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust” (Job 34:10–15 nkjv). Few passages of Scripture say so clearly what spiritual death is, in fact what death is altogether. “God sets His heart on gathering to Himself His Spirit and His breath [of life].” It is so simply stated that it is tempting to reject it as too easy. Yet that is what the Scripture teaches about death. Spirits die because of sin, God’s vehicle of disease, sickness, despair, suffering, and the pinnacle of them all, death. Spiritual death allows natural death, the means the Lord God almost always employs to bring people to judgment and then either eternal life or eternal damnation. These are all agents of divine judgment and executioners of God’s wrath. Their being spiritual says sin impacts more than morality or offenses to other human beings. It goes all the way to the realms of the spirit where God and His authorities abide. Thus sin is a spiritual agency at work in the physical world to cause the death that exports people to their eternal destiny. As God’s regulator of human conduct and alternative to divine command, sin is the means by which death and all other negativity in creation attaches itself to people. It affects first their spirits, then their souls, and lastly their bodies, which takes its subsidy from the life of the soul and the spirit. Hence when Adam sinned, sin entered and brought with it death. See Romans