HARD TEACHING: THE WALKING DEAD

God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8)

 

Wishing that you were dead will never happen for the soul is immortal. Wishing for death is asking for isolation from God.   

Mankind were all guilty, but by transference Jesus assumed their sins so they need not die. He took on all our sins: 

Jesus, Who His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.  (1 Pet 2:24) 

As Jesus received His wounds, virtue left Him that was transferred to mankind. As He was reduced, we were “made whole.” (Hold onto that thought for a moment.) 

First off, “Christ died for us.” In the Greek, it is “apothnesko.” 

He died… “apo-thenesko”— separated; a dead man. 

Jesus had been alive. Paul’s questioners in front of Felix were superstitious, or so it seemed; that “Jesus, which was dead (thnesko), whom Paul affirmed to be alive (zao)” (Act 25:19). Rather than apo, Jesus was said to be zao. He was undead; he had been “quickened:” 

  For Christ also had once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death (thantoo) in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. (1 Pet 3:18) 

Quickened is zoopoieo in the Greek: zoon-poieo; once alive, being made alive again. 

Once separated; being assembled again. 

Paul said to the Romans, “Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion (dominance) over Him” (Rom 6:9) 

Raised therein comes from the base Greek word, egeíro: “collecting one’s faculties.” Jesus was made whole again. He had been “disassembled” at the crucifixion, “And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost: (Mark 15:37). 

Crucify comes from the root verb stauroo — “to impale.” When Jesus was crucified, He was pierced (or impaled). He was cut apart releasing what? Blood and water. 

Jesus was cut apart before He was pieced, as His Body gave up its Ghost. The crucifixion did not kill God; He had not been terminated but disassembled so that He could no longer exist, or to be both God and Man in One. 

The daughter of Jarius who had her spirit leave her. Her body and spirit were separated, but Jesus made her whole again. Her “death” was merely when her soul was cut apart from her body She was made “whole again” when her spirit returned to her. 

Remember from an earlier commentary of mine that Jesus lost blood, but what was the water? When He was on the Cross, the Ghost left Him, but when Longinus pierced Jesus the Power of God in Jesus was spilled on the ground. 

What happened? 

And when the centurion, which stood over against Him, saw that He so cried out, and gave up the Ghost, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39) 

He had been the genetics (Genome) of Yahweh; now He was not. God had been separated from Him. 

The centurion saw the Holy Ghost leave Jesus. He saw the disassembly of the Triune God. His Ghost went to Paradise that day and His Power went to the ground. 

Remember Adam? That was first of the anthropoidal beings. Like his kind, the ground was Adam as well. The blood and virtue of Jesus had redeemed Adam for his dust had returned to the ground; perhaps right there since it was the “place of the skull.” Whose skull? The cranium of Adam. 

In my book, The Place of the Skull, I submitted that when the ground quaked, it was Adam who was quickened. If so, then the first saint to arise with Jesus was Adam. 

Adam had not died but had just been disassembled awaiting his Savior. Adam and all his kind were redeemed that day. 

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Cor 15:45) 

Jesus quickened the soul of Adam. His blood was the genes of God in Him and water was the quickening Spirit that made alive again. 

The point to this commentary is that death is not the end of anything. It is merely separation form God. That separation is Hell. Hell is therefore death, but in Hell death never ends. The soul suffers; that is “death.” 

To be made alive again first we must die to the world, then quickened by God reborning you again. "You must be born again" (John 3:7). You must be quickened with the Spirit of Jesus. 

Death is without the soul ever undergoing quickening. Thus, life is the quickening Spirit entering the decadent soul of a sinner to be made alive again. 

Jesus quickened for our “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25); genetic sins proceeding from the original sin. The subsequent sins are justified; we still sin but they are not counted against Christians who endeavor not to sin, but still knowing that we might fail. 

Earlier I mentioned a Greek word with great significance: “apothnesko.”… apo-thenesko”— separated; a dead man. 

The “second death” is separating from God to become dead to Him again. 

Hebrews 6:6: A “falling away” is apostasia; a defection from God and Jesus was only crucified once. Hence, those who defect from once having affection for God are damned (reprobate) — the walking dead. That are alive, yet dead. 

Adam “died” when He lost His glory. He lied as the walking dead. He was revived when Jesus gave up His own Glory to the ground; to revive all of Adam’s kind. So, death is not a biological thing but a disassociation from God.