There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

spoken, and to whom was it spoken?” The entire chapter of 1 Corinthians 15 is where Paul is revealing the mystery of the resurrection of the dead and how in the “twinkling of an eye” the dead in Christ will be raised. Isaiah 26:14 appears to contradict this promise, as it says they are dead and will not rise. However, in the context of this chapter the prophet was dealing with nations that had risen up against Israel and were no longer in existence—yet Israel still endured. This death had no reference to individual people but to empires and nations in the past that mistreated the Jews and no longer existed. Thus one verse deals with the bodily resurrection of the dead in Christ and the other with nations who ceased to exist and had no chance of being raised again in the future. Satan actually attempted this “bait and switch” strategy during the temptation of Christ (Matt. 4:5–6) when he suggested that Christ could throw Himself from the top of the pinnacle of the temple and would never be harmed, because if He were God’s Son, then God would gladly provide angels to scoop down to prevent His premature death. Satan based his suggestion (temptation) on Psalm 91:11–12 ( KJV ): For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. In Matthew 4:6 ( KJV ) the phrase, “lest at any time” was added to this passage, not by the translators but by Satan himself when quoting the passage—suggesting that if Jesus