When Paul, the first century Christian, was asked about life after death
(about people who had physically died and were in the
grave [1 Cor. 15]), he gave a powerful discourse on the hope and the
assurance that those believers would experience life again. His assurance
of their life to come was the simple fact that he had experienced life
after death many times in the present earthly life. He knew the
mystery of the life of dying.
Paul had been moved from experiencing life
in the fleshly realm to experiencing life in the spiritual realm. While he
was still earthly, through the process of life after death, he had
experienced the heavenly. He had been snatched away from the mortality of his flesh
to meet the immortal Jesus in the spiritual realm. Although still in the world, he was no
longer of the world. Jesus Christ was now being manifest in his life. He
had experienced life after death. He knew he would experience it again.
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