by Robert Searles

Created on: September 30, 2008

DEATH, THE GRIM REAPER

The most feared and dreaded enemy of all mankind for all time is death, often called the "grim reaper". Every creature on earth will, sooner or latter fall victim to him. There is no escape. All things die, plants, animals, and man, all have their appointment with this grim reaper. All journey to his narrow house. The wise and the foolish alike are smitten, and all resistance is in vain.

Death was introduced into the world through sin, and since that time, only two men is all history have escaped his reaping. Death is the universal fact of life. The moment we are born, we begin to die. Some may last longer than others, but eventually all will end up in death which is inescapable.

Once having seen light and life, and the beauty of God's creation, what a horror to contemplate going out into the eternal darkness and void of the unknown where countless horrors and sorrows may await us.

It was never intended in the creation of man that death should reign over the whole world, but when the first man and woman on earth chose to believe the deceit of Satan rather than to obey God's word, the door was open and death entered . God said: do not eat the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you do you shall surely die, and our first parents chose to ignore God's warning and because of God's holiness, he had to pronounce the penalty that "The wages of sin is death" Rom 6:23. So the curse of death has passed upon all men. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Rom 5: 12.

Man's time on earth is like a breath of wind, here and gone before we know it. "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living." Job 30:23.

There is no respect of persons in God's code of justice. The rich, the wise, the highly educated, as well as the poor, and the foolish; all meet the same fate, all die. "For he saith that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others." Psalm 49:10.

When the prospects of death loom over us and we begin to face the inescapable fact that we are mortal, we try to seek all kinds of cures and remedies to keep the grim reaper from catching up with us, but regardless of all the advances in medicine and technology and knowledge, when our appointment with man's enemy comes due, we have no strength and resistance to prevail over its power. "There is no man that

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