>>13235115>>13235107>>13235104>>13235095Now about that law (that a master cannot kill his slaves). Why can the slave master not kill his slaves? Because he does not have the power to bring back his slaves to life. The law states that if the slave recovers in 1 or 2 days the master is not to be punished. Jesus has the keys to death and hades so this is not an issue for him. As for the one or 2 days, could it be extended to 1 to 2 thousand years? Perhaps, if we hold a day with the lord is 1000 years. In the future there is going to be a great white throne judgement. Those humans who are cast into the lake of fire will experience the second death. Now (this is just my speculation) if the lake of fire kills those who are cast into it and then Jesus raises them back to life later on, he would not be breaking the law (Jesus cannot break the law he wrote, God abides by the rules he wrote). I hold to a literal interpretation of the second death (those that go into the lake of fire do die a second time literally). However, I can be wrong, perhaps this verse debunks a literal interpretation of the second case, in that case the second death would be spiritual not literal (I write this because I know that the law points to Jesus and is a prophecy about Jesus and his atonement).
However, look at the cross, what happened to Jesus? Was he tortured forever? No, ergo the wages of sin can not be eternal torment. Was he dead forever? No, otherwise he could never rise again from the dead. Was he eternally separated from God forever? No, otherwise he could not ascend into heaven and become our high priest and apply his blood on the alter in heaven (and thus we would be dead in our sins). What happened. Jesus suffered and then died, literally. Then God raise him back to life and made him immortal. Jesus came to save us from sin and death by paying for our sins, justifying us (he who is justified can not sin, God does not count sins on his account), and then making us immortal.
