The Walking Dead Are Already Amongst Us:
Do you know that we will all live “forever” in the technical sense of what it means to “live forever”. Meaning all people will continue to exist even after their body on earth dies. Some people will go on to be with the Lord in the new heaven and new earth, and other people will be thrown into the lake of fire where they will be tormented day and night.
Revelation 20:10 – “The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
Therefore, according we the Bible, we must properly understand what “death” is. Death is not ceasing to exist anymore because we will ALL exist forever. Death is separation from GOD who is the source of ALL Life.
When Adam and Eve were created GOD instructed them that they must not eat of the knowledge of good and evil because if they eat of it they would surely die.
Genesis 2:17 – “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Did Adam and Eve’s physical bodies drop dead the moment they ate the fruit of the tree? Certainly not. But did they instantly die? Yes, they certainly died instantly, because the moment they sinned they were separated from GOD. And if GOD is the source of LIFE then separation from the source of life is death.
All of nature works in a similar way. If you were to pluck a leaf off a tree, the leaf would die instantly because it’s been separated from the tree, however, the leaf would remain green and appear like it’s still alive for a few days, before its dried up death condition is visible.
Just look at what Jesus says to us in John 15:5
John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
Therefore we are also like leaves that were once connected to GOD, but after we sinned those leaves were separated from the vine, and the process of decomposition began. For a leaf, it takes 3-7 days to fully decompose, but for a human, it takes 70-120 years to fully decompose. Therefore the reason we decompose in the first place is because death has already been working in our bodies due to sin. For the Bible says the wages of sin is death.
Adam and Eve were not created to die. They were going to live forever. There was no death until sin was introduced into the world. But because Adam sinned he died instantly (separated from GOD) and decomposed after 930 years(Genesis 5:5).
With that said, those who reject Jesus Christ have no life in them because the Bible says Jesus is the LIFE, and that whoever believes in Jesus will not perish, because the life that is inside of them will be eternal life.
John 11:25-26 – “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Therefore “Life” and “Death” are not a matter of these physical bodies. Life and death depend on what is working on the inside of each person. These physical bodies are already decomposing because of the sins of Adam and Eve(as well as our own sins), and we will receive NEW bodies if our faith is in Jesus.
These corruptible physical bodies only hide the truth of our actual condition. When the physical body is stripped away due to it dying the reality of what is inside each person will be revealed. One person will have life still once his physical body has been stripped away and will be with the Lord, and the other person will see his condition is a death condition when his physical body is stripped away and he will be in hell.
So if this is the case, why do we wait for people to die physically for us to grieve for them? Should we not grieve them while they are still technically “alive”? Are the Walking Dead not already among us? The people who reject Christ, live in sin and are filled with death because of it. Should we not grieve for them now, while there is still time to save them? Should we only wait until it’s too late for them to grieve for them? If we as a people had the heart to grieve for the sinner now before they are fully decomposed I believe we would have the motivation to do all we could do to help them be saved.
Look at what Jesus said to the man who asked Jesus for permission to go and burry his dead father before following Jesus:
Luke 9:59-60 – “Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
Jesus told him “No”. Jesus said the other dead people would be the ones to bury his dead Father. But how could a dead person bury another dead person? Because Jesus is saying that the sinners who are the walking dead, will bury the man’s father. Jesus referred to them as dead even though they were technically still breathing.
Therefore we should arm ourselves with the same mentality and not wait until our loved ones physically die to grieve for them. Let’s grieve for them now and do all we can to encourage them and persuade them to turn to Jesus Christ so that we will not have to grieve them as deeply after physical death because we will know that they have eternal life and are with the Lord.
Let’s see things with spiritual eyes in this matter. Those who are waiting on the apocalypse and zombies to appear in the earth, must understand that the zombies are already amongst us and we also have the antidote for them, and that antidote is Jesus. When they put their faith in Jesus they will be healed of their zombified state and come back to life. Those who are living in willful sin and those who reject Jesus Christ are the walking dead, but there is still hope for them to be saved. We know about the Antidote(Jesus). Let’s deliver this antidote to our brethren.
That’s all for today guys.
GOD bless you all who are in Christ Jesus.
Eddie Fews