Christ the Conqueror in Death

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

Christ the Conqueror in Death

When Jesus died upon the cross, "the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of their graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt. 27:50-53. It is thru death that Jesus destroys him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2:14. He did not go into the grave a conquered victim, but a Conqueror. In death He gained the victory, as the opening graves testified. Thus it is that even in death itself "we are more than conquerors thru Him that loved us." Rom. 8:37.