We shall be saved from wrath through Him....

Peace in Christ.

There is a “truth” of the gospel (the word gospel means “good news”) that is not currently being preached as it is not being understood. Although the words of the gospel are being spoken by the voices of earthly-minded men, it is being done without the Spirit of knowledge giving its true meaning.

The following is an attempt to explain the good news which is for the here-and-now rather than the “here-after” as being now universally preached by the “word of men”. The good news is not about after we “die and go to Heaven” but rather for our mortal salvation on this earth for the duration of this age.

Proverbs 11:31
(31) Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Fearing God (keeping His commandments) is the beginning of knowledge. The only way to enter in to understand the good news is to keep His commandments when we hear something that we do not initially agree with rather than behaving in envy, strife, wrath, contentions, etc.

Proverbs 1:7
(7) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

We are to “take heed” on how we hear….for those who will hear (believing what one hears), more knowledge shall be given.

Mark 4:24-25
(24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
(25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

The world and its lust actively pass away (now) from this earth but he that does the will of God ABIDES “for ever”...that is, abides/stays into the age. The people of this world (who are conformed to this world) pass away in their mortal bodies. They perish.

The good news is not about passing away from this earth along with the rest of this world but about staying here mortally on this earth. The people of this world pass away as nothing in this current world can prevent their mortal deaths.

1 John 2:16-17
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides for ever (INTO THE AGE).

Young's Literal Translation
and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

As it says in Proverbs 11:4, riches can not prevent our death…but the doing of His righteousness can. The “day of wrath” is the day of God’s coming judgment upon us for sin….the day of our death. It equates the "day of wrath" with "death."

NOTE: “Day of wrath” = our “death”.

Proverbs 11:4
Young's Literal Translation
Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Christ died for us in our place so that we are saved from that WRATH which comes for us through Him. The “wrath” of God is our mortal death that comes to take away from this earth. The wages of the sin is the death…the death of the mortal body.

Romans 5:8-9
(8) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Jesus is rescuing us from that wrath that is coming so that we can wait here on this earth for His Son from Heaven who shall redeem our mortal bodies at the “last trump”.

Notice here in 1st Thessalonians 1:10 that we who are delivered from that wrath to come are to WAIT for His Son who comes from Heaven. We wait for Him here on this earth….waiting for Him to come from Heaven. We don’t go to Heaven but wait for Him to come from there.

The “wrath” = our mortal death.

1 Thessalonians 1:10
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Jesus was raised out of the dead so that we might have His ongoing life NOW in this earth.

Jesus died for us in our place so that we may have His life now in this mortal body while we wait for Him to come and change our vile bodies to be fashioned like unto His. We pass from death unto life now in this mortal body on his earth.

Young's Literal Translation
and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

We who hear His word and believe on Him that sent Him have an AGE-LASTING life.

Faith is an integral part of receiving the good news. We shall not come into condemnation/ judgment (mortal death)....the wrath of God... but pass from death unto life now in this mortal body.

The Greek transliterated word that is translated “everlasting” or “eternal” in most bibles is “aiōnios” which means “age-lasting”. It has a limited time duration (an “age”) and should not be translated as “eternal”.

John 5:24
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

They that believe on the Son has an “everlasting” life…that is, an AGE-LASTING life. This is a present tense wording. “Eternal life” is a now-in-the-present thing. It is not something to be had after death.

Those who believe have passed from death unto life. But those who do not believe the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him. The wrath of God = the coming death of the mortal body.

John 3:36
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Young's Literal Translation
he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.

Read Psalms 90 which deals with the wrath of God that comes upon men whose flesh withers like the grass. He turns man to destruction only to call us unto repentance as He is not willing that any should perish under His wrath.

Psalms 90:3-11
(3) Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
(4) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
(5) Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
(6) In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
(7) For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Consider John 3:16: Whosoever shall believe into the only begotten Son of God shall not perish (mortally die from this earth under the wrath of God) but may have “everlasting”...that is, an AGE-LASTING life.

“aiōnios”= age-lasting

(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in (into) him should not perish, but have everlasting (“aiōnios”or age-lasting) life.

Young's Literal Translation
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

In 2nd Corinthians 6:2, we read that Jesus gave Himself for our sins so that He might deliver us out of this present evil AGE that we are now living in.

This “age” now is where we are to have the promised “age-lasting life” (aka “eternal life”). It is about salvation/deliverance now in this present evil age where the world and its lust pass away under the judgment/wrath of God. The world is already condemned to perish under God’s wrath…the rising sun of His wrath.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

We are delivered out of this age (which is experiencing the wrath of God) by having an age-lasting life…continuing to mortally live in this current body to the end of this present evil age when the redemption moment of our mortal bodies happens: when this “mortal shall put on immortality”.

(Galatians 1:4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from (out of) this present evil “world” (AGE), according to the will of God and our Father:

Young's Literal Translation
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

The word “mortal” means “subject to death” and does not mean we have died but only liable to. The potential to die is always with us while being “mortal” and not immortal. When we put on immortality, death is completely defeated in victory for death is not a friend but an enemy to be defeated in Christ.

The just shall LIVE (the living) by our faith in Him… and will never die into the age (as Jesus stated to Martha in John 11:26).

We believe “into” Him….a goal reached as we put on His immortal life at the “last trump” moment. Until then, we mortally live by faith which keeps us living on this earth.

God is not willing that any should perish but come unto repentance....to change the mind. “Perishing” means our mortal body dies under God’s wrath. We are removed from this earth….no matter how we go: we shall “all likewise perish.” This is not “spiritual death” but our mortal body’s death…hence the word “perish”. The mortal body perishes under the rising sun of His wrath.

Luke 13:1-5
(1) There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
(2) And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
(3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
(4) Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

The Greek transliterated word for “repent” is “metanoeō” which means to “change our minds” or to “think differently, reconsider” We must hear the truth and change our minds about what we thought and believed for His thoughts and His ways. We once thought we knew what the gospel was…but were hearing it from the word of earthly-minded men who did not have an understanding of the good news.

(5) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

The Lord is not willing that any should perish (mortally die from this earth) but that all should come to repentance….to change the mind about these things.

2 Peter 3:9
(9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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Some will hear the truth of the good news and scoff in their unbelief: “where is the promise of His coming?” The “promise” is “eternal life”....that is, an age-lasting life.

1 John 2:25
(25) And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal (age-lasting) life.

Young's Literal Translation
and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.

They will reason: the “fathers fell asleep”...they all died as all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

2 Peter 3:3-6
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

The fact is that they are still perishing under the judgment of God…just as the world of old that perished being overflowed with water.

Their church fathers did not understand the gospel nor did they take hold of an age-lasting life as they followed after their own lusts and perished and passed down their erroneous church teachings and commandments to their following generations after them who also perish.

(5) For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
(6) Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The gospel has been hid to those who are “lost”...that is, PERISHING away in their mortal bodies from this earth.

The god of this “age” (not “world” but “age”) has blinded the minds of those who are “preaching themselves”. The god of this age is their belly that they are serving for in their “preaching”...handling the Word of God deceitfully for a paycheck in order to support their own earthly necessities.

2 Corinthians 4:2-4
(2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (PERISHING):
(4) In whom the god of this world (AGE) hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Their end is destruction…destruction of their mortal bodies. They perish because they do not understand the gospel as it is being hid from the eyes of their understanding.

Their “god” is their belly that they are “preaching” to fill. They are minding “earthly things”: what to eat, what to drink, what to wear as they “preach themselves”.

Paul told this to the Philippians WEEPING.

Philippians 3:18-19
(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
(19) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

This should remind us of Paul’s words of warning in Acts 20 where warned everyone night and day WITH TEARS about how grievous wolves would enter into the church not sparing the flock. These men have no understanding of the gospel because of their earthly-mindedness in their “preaching” to the flock. They are not feeding the flock with the Word of Truth and are only feeding themselves while the flock perishes because of a lack of knowledge.

Acts 20:29-31
(29) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
(30) Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
(31) Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tear
s.

Paul showed the overseers of the church of God how to feed the flock….by working with their own hands to support their own earthly necessities. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

In doing so, they can support the “weak” consciences of the outside world who look into the churches and blaspheme the gospel and His holy name because of the pay-for-preaching.

Acts 20:33-35
(33) I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
(34) Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
(35) I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

As Jesus said, life (the age-lasting life) is more important than food and the body (the mortal body itself) is more important than the clothes that you put on it.

Luke 12:22-23
(22) And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
(23) The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

In working with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities, we can then truly feed the church of God so that none perish away under our “care”….being pure from the blood of all men.

Acts 20:26-28
(26) Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
(27) For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
(28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

The apostles worked with “labor and travail” night so that we may “follow” them in this. They did not eat anyone’s bread for nothing but instead worked with their own hands to support themselves.

Every brother who does not follow after the “tradition”...that is, the commanded transmission…of the apostles we are to withdraw from. They are “walking disorderly” to the command of the apostles who did make it binding upon all after them to follow their example.

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
(6) Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
(7) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
(8) Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

The original apostles had the power to eat from those of the church but they did forgo that power in order that we should follow them in this. In fact, it is their command to us to work or not eat. If we do not work, neither shall we eat.

(9) Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
(10) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
(11) For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
(12) Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

If any man does not “obey”....that is, to subordinately hear…their (the original apostles) word by this letter, we are to note that man and have no company with him.

This is not talking about any brother sitting in the back pew who does not work…but a brother in the pulpit who preaches for a paycheck rather than working with his own hands to support his own earthly necessities.

He must with “quietness” work….not using his voice in “preaching” for work…and eat their own bread.

It is this letter (2 Thessalonians 3) here that is the authority for this commandment of the apostles by the Lord Jesus Christ.

(14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
(15) Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

So now the original apostles of Christ have used the keys of the kingdom of Heaven in this thing for they had “bound” this right on earth for preachers to eat from the church. It is no longer permissible for those after them NOT to follow their example in working with their own hands to support themselves.

It is binding that we must now work with our own hands to support ourselves just as they did. It is no longer an option to eat from the preaching of the gospel. They did “bind” this on earth and is now a bound commandment upon the citizens of Heaven (who are on earth but have their citizenship in Heaven).

Matthew 16:19
(19) And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Paul worked with his own hands (as a tentmaker) to support his own earthly necessities…and we must be “followers together” of him and mark them which walk according to the example set out by the apostles who did labor night and day so as not to be chargeable to any.

Philippians 3:17-18
(17) Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Many are walking “disorderly” and not according to the apostles’ example. They are the enemies of the cross of Christ as they do not understand the gospel and are not preaching it to their congregations who are perishing under their leadership. They are denying the power of the cross of Christ which would keep their congregations mortally alive throughout this age.

(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

The prophets who only feed themselves do not understand the gospel nor the Scriptures as it has been made “night unto them”. They falsely prophesy “peace” to those who put food into their mouths….but they do not have a “vision” for the Scriptures have been “dark” as the gospel has been hid from their understanding.

Micah 3:5-7
(5) Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
(6) Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
(7) Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

They judge for reward….they teach for hire….and the prophets divine for money. And so the gospel has been hid from the eyes of their understanding. There is no peace among them who do such things and think that the LORD is with them and that no evil can come upon them.

Micah 3:11
(11) The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.





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Continuing on….

Jesus is Lord of both the “dead” (those who mortally perish) and the “living”.

There are 2 distinct, separate groups being spoken about here in Romans 14. They are not the same group. The “dead” are not the same as the “living” and vice versa.

Those who “live unto the Lord” (the living) will not mortally die while those who “die unto the Lord” (the “dead”) have perished in their mortal bodies. Nevertheless, both groups are the Lord’s no matter what the outcome is.

Romans 14:7-9
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
(8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

Death has been rendered idle for the “living” who do not mortally perish.

The Greek transliterated word “katargeō” here in 2nd Timothy 1:10 means “to be (render) entirely idle (useless).”

The “living” continue to live here on this earth in this current age as death is rendered idle for them until the “last trump” moment where they will put on immortality.

Their mortal bodies (which did not die) will then put on immortality at the last trump…at the very end of this age where death is ultimately defeated. We believe INTO Him….a goal that is reached.

(2 Timothy 1:10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished (rendered idle) death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

Our living journey throughout the remainder of this age is described in Hebrews 12 as a “race that is set before us.” We are to lay aside every weight and the sin which is always close to us and does so easily entangles us.

The just shall continue to mortally live by faith unto the finish: the redemption of our mortal body. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.

Hebrews 12:1-2
(1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
(2) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

We are to hear and be begotten AGAIN unto a “lively”....that is, a LIVING…hope. It is not a “dying-and-going-to-heaven” hope that is currently preached by the “word of men” but a living hope. if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied..

1 Peter 1:3-5
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively (living) hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

At the redemption of our mortal bodies, we put on immortality.

Our mortal bodies are to be changed/fashioned like unto His which is “incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away.”

We are saved by our hope in this….and we continue to live on this earth to see it. There is something more than just hope as we shall receive the end of our faith and hope in the redemption of the body.

(4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

But before the redemption of our mortal bodies, we are kept here mortally by the power of God through faith unto that salvation which is to be revealed in the last time. The just shall live by faith until then.

(5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

What are we to hope and wait patiently for?

The redemption of our mortal bodies at the “last time”....at the “last trump”.... where we are to be changed from mortal into immortal. We are saved by hope in this …and we shall have an age-lasting life until that moment arrives. We shall not die while patiently and in hope waiting for this to arrive.

Romans 8:23-25
(23) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
(24) For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
(25) But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

We are to wait for the redemption of the mortal body where the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, comes to change/transform our vile (humiliated) bodies so that they may be fashioned like unto His glorious body which is “ incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away.”

Philippians 3:20-21
(20) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
(21) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

We are to continue to “stand” here in this life…but we are to take heed lest we fall if we follow in the examples of those who died…whose carcasses dropped in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:12
(12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

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The wages of “the” (definite article) sin is “the” death….the death of our mortal bodies for the remainder of this age. It is an age-lasting death (”eternal” death if you will) until we are resurrected at the “last trump” moment at the end of this age. We mortally die/perish because of the sin we serve or we continue to mortally live when we no longer serve it but have died to it.

Romans 6:22-23
(22) But now being made free from (THE) sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end (conclusion) everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life.
(23) For the wages of (THE) sin is (the) death; but the gift of God is eternal (AGE-LASTING) life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Again, there are 2 groups of people being spoken about in John 11: 25-26: the “dead” and the “living”.

Jesus is the resurrection (of the dead). Even if we mortally die, we shall live. We are still the Lord’s as He is the Lord of both the “dead” and the living. Jesus died and was resurrected and so now His sacrifice covers both groups.

The dead shall be raised incorruptible (non-decaying, nonperishable) at the last trump moment. They had suffered the loss of their mortal bodies but God will give them a body as He determines. There is a resurrection of the dead….at the last trump.

Young's Literal Translation

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing into me, even if he may die, shall live;

He is also “the life” for the “living” group as those who live and believe into Him shall NOT DIE…into the age.

Faith (which is active) in Him is the source of their life. The “living” will continue to mortally “stand” (the “resurrection” of the living) here on this earth for the duration of this age.

“Resurrection” = the Greek transliterated word “anastasis” which means “a standing up”.

Those who will hear the truth of the gospel and believe shall continue to live (“stand”) into the remainder of this age (having an age-lasting life). The just shall “live” by faith. They have “eternal life”...an age-lasting life…now.

The gospel of John uses “eternal life” as a present reality….of which it is.

They will not mortally perish but will continue to keep their mortal bodies until the putting on of immortality (the redemption of the body) which happens at the very end of this age. .

There will be no death at all for them throughout this current evil age. As Jesus said they “shall not die into the age.”

26 and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

But will those of the churches hear and believe this or will they be like Martha who did not really confess/acknowledge that belief in the good news? They believe in Christ, the Son of God who is coming to the world but will they believe in His true gospel when they hear it?

27 believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

John 11:25-26
(25) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
(26) And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die (into the age). Believe thou this?

As 1st Corinthians 15:51 states, we shall not all “sleep”…that is, mortally die (for the rest of this age).

The “dead” group of people will “sleep” (mortally perish for the duration of this age) while the “living” shall not “sleep” (perish mortally).

The gospel of truth shall be heard (which hasn’t been heard yet in the churches of men where they are still mortally perishing…falling “asleep”) and believed in by the “living”.

The “living” shall NOT DIE throughout this current age but shall continue to live until the last trump moment when their mortal bodies shall put on immortality (which is the “redemption” of the body) thereby circumventing death altogether via their faith into Him. The just shall LIVE by faith.

Those who have mortally died (the “corruptible” who had mortally perished) will then be raised “incorruptible” or non-decaying/nonperishable. They will have suffered an age-lasting (aka “eternal”) death until that moment.

(1Co 15:51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Again, there are 2 groups being talked about here at the last trump: the “dead” (those who perished…who did not continue to mortally live throughout this present evil age) shall be raised incorruptible …and the “living” who did not ever die but continued to mortally live through this age until the moment that their mortal bodies are changed into immortal.

Both groups (the “dead” and the “living”) shall be changed.

The dead (those who “sleep”) are to be raised up in their resurrection time non perishable but the living (who have not perished and are already mortally standing) shall be changed into immortal.

(1Co 15:52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
(1Co 15:53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Both groups will have death swallowed up in victory for them because of their faith in Jesus.

The “dead” will not have suffered death forever (as it was only a “sleep” with an age-lasting death) and the “living” will have never suffered death at all.

The “dead” suffer loss…the loss of the mortal body… while the living are kept standing here having their mortal bodies preserved by their faith.

All are changed but there is a difference between the change for the dead and for the living.

The changes for both groups:

1 “This corruptible/perishable/decayed shall have put on incorruption.” This statement only applies to the “dead .“

2 This statement applies only to the “living”: this mortal (meaning “subject to death”...not having died but only subject to death) will have put on immortality (where death no longer is a potential).

(1Co 15:54) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

The following verses here in 1st Corinthians 15 only apply to the “dead”....those who have perished in their mortal bodies. The “dead” are raised up at the “last trump” and given another body as determined by God.

(1Co 15:35) But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
(1Co 15:36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
(1Co 15:37) And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
(1Co 15:38) But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

The “living” are not given another body but have their delivered-alive mortal bodies (kept alive by faith through this present evil age) changed into immortal at the moment of the last trump where the last enemy death shall be defeated once-and-for-all.

Our mortal bodies are dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Even though our bodies are dead even while we live here, it is God’s Spirit that quickens….that is, makes alive…our mortal bodies when we always live according to it.

The life that the Spirit gives our mortal bodies is that age-lasting (“eternal”) life which keeps us standing here on this earth to the very end of this age.

(Rom 8:10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(Rom 8:11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (make alive) your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.
(Rom 8:12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

IF we through the Spirit do mortify (kill/slay) the deeds of the body, we shall live….an age-lasting life. Our mortal bodies shall continue to live here on this earth to the redemption of it at the very end of this age.

(Rom 8:13) For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

We are to always keep the “daily” sacrifice of our Lord Jesus in our bodies so that His life also should be made manifest in our mortal flesh. This life keeps our mortal bodies alive with “eternal life”...an age-lasting life.

It is about the manifested life of Jesus (He gives His flesh for the life of the world) in our mortal flesh that delivers us out of this present evil age and into the coming age. Our faith in Him shall deliver us…and faith is active as we always die to sin..

2 Corinthians 4:10-11
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

We are to reckon ourselves to be dead unto the sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:11-12
(11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto (definite article: THE) sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(12) Let not (THE) sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

If we continue to live after the flesh (after being given His Spirit), we shall mortally die.

Think of an age-lasting life (“eternal life”) to be had as like the life of Caleb (who had the spirit of faith in him) who was kept mortally alive in the desert as promised by the Lord while the carcasses of the unbelievers fell in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:24
(24) But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Joshua 14:10-11
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
(11) As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

If we do not hear the truth of the gospel, then how can we believe in it? Faith comes from hearing and hearing comes from the Word of God.

Romans 10:17
(17) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

This is in contrast to the “word of men” who do not preach the truth of the gospel…..which causes people to mortally perish. The word of earthly-minded men who “preach” for pay have not understood the good news of our mortal salvation.

1 Thessalonians 2:13
(13) For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

We are to be “born again” not of man’s “corruptible” (decaying) preaching but that which is “incorruptible”....by the true Word of God which lives and abides INTO THE AGE. The true “brothers” come preaching this good news…and we must receive what they say unto unfeigned love of them who do.

We are to “obey” (Greek: hupakoē = attentive hearing)...that is, to HEAR subordinately…the truth through the Spirit.

1 Peter 1:22-25
(22) Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying (hear subordinately) the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
(23) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever (INTO THE AGE).

This is about our mortal flesh that withers. The glory of man falls away.

But the word of the Lord endures “forever”....that is, into the age.

Our mortal flesh is to also endure into this age to the redemption moment of its mortality where it puts on immortality. This is good news indeed.

(24) For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
(25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever (INTO THE AGE). And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.