Riddle me this. How can a disciple not experience physical death, yet every disciple, including the departed, put on immortality? Simple. Rapture and resurrection. Disciples who are physically alive, when the LORD returns will be raptured, that is, immediately caught up and transformed into someone with an immortal, undying body. Already departed disciples will be resurrected with also an immortal, undying body. “51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 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. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1Corinthians 15:51-55 KJV).
Mortality of Man
All of Creation Speaks to Us
God is separate and distinct from His creation, yet He speaks to us through it. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard” (Psalm 19:1-3 KJV). Someone views a scenic panorama and another asks, “What does it say to you?” Tom Hanks in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), standing on a steamer trunk floating in the middle of the ocean, in front of an enormous moon rising on the horizon, semi-deliriously remarked, “Dear God, whose name I do not know — thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG [you are]… thank you. Thank you for my life.” In that scene, John Patrick Shanley’s cinematic parable on mortality communicated what he heard God say about God’s vastness. Can we say nay?
We Need A Miracle 