11.05.2014 New Testament: Heb 2.14–15

To read the Bible in a year, read Hebrews 2 on November 5, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

We inhabit flesh and blood. Therefore, we are subject to death. Yet, death was not in the original order of things, but death through sin, invaded God’s creation. God did not intend for us to die. Yet, because of sin, we die. God, still loving us, wanted to save us from death, and so He did something awesome to destroy the power of the devil, who used death to frighten us,

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage (Hebrews 2.14–15). 

Now we do not have to fear death, because Jesus overcame death by His resurrection, thereby destroying the hold that the devil had on death to frighten us into subjection.