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The
Washington Times
has reported some time back about a conversation that Vladimir Putin and “Emperor”
Xi were having about organ transplants, believing that advancements in that
field could very well lead to potentially conquering death. “In a few decades,
as biotechnology continues to develop, human organs will continue to be
transplanted and people will become younger and perhaps even achieve
immortality,” Putin was reported saying. [1]
The
publication was mainly focused on reports of China’s forced human organ
harvesting which allege that the CCP has been and is still forcibly removing
organs from thousands of innocent people; political and religious dissidents in
particular and not when they are dead, but while they are still alive. [2]
We
may be at odds with the ideology of the CCP and rightfully so.
We
may stand in condemnation of their well-documented cruel persecution of religious
and political dissidents in their nation as we should be.
And
we may not understand how Putin can call himself a Christian and justify
aligning himself with governments in which the fear of God does not exist and
who are even anti-Christ but there is something about his aforementioned statement
pertaining to organ transplants that stuck out to me and it is that there is
one thing that he and Xi have in common with the rest of humanity and that is
the desire to conquer death.
It
does not matter as to what your political, religious, or philosophical leanings
may be: if we are all honest with ourselves, we would all agree that death is
either a thing that ought not be or at least wish didn’t have to be, including
those us who count death as a natural and necessary part of life itself and so
we find ways to delay the inevitable and conquer that which is humanly unconquerable. Even those of the eastern and new age
religions who take death as being an illusion are seeking to conquer that which
they deny to be a reality.
Death
is never a giver but always a taker and when it robs us of that which we hold
dear and which has provided so much joy and happiness in our lives, it leaves
an excruciatingly, agonizing, and torturous sting and mark upon our very hearts
and souls that, depending on the severity of the loss suffered at its hands, can
go on for years and even a lifetime.
Even those who would claim that death is just an illusion can and do
feel its sting when it even so much as rob them of a pet every bit as much as
the rest of us who accept the existence and reality of death and if ever we
could, we, including those of us who count it as a part of the natural cycle of
life, would all bring back everything that death took from us and while we may
not all agree as to the purpose and reason of death, we all count it an enemy
when it affects us in some form or fashion and we have all been affected by
death in one way or another be it the loss of a pet, a parent, grandparent, close
friend or relative, a spouse, or a child and we all have respond to death
differently which largely depends upon our religious and philosophical leanings
to begin with.
For
those of us who deny the existence of a Creator or believe the Creator to be
nothing more than an impersonal force and a collective consciousness of which
we are all a part, we do not know how to deal with its agony when it takes
something from us we have held dear and when faced with it ourselves, we may
not know how to deal with the uncertainty of what we might face afterwards.
But
for those of us who adhere to any of the theistic religions of the world and
especially the monotheistic religions, we do receive some degree of comfort in
the hope of a good afterlife when we pass away from this present life and that
we will be reunited with all whom we have loved and have held dear who went on
before us and that death itself will eventually either be done away with or at
the very least, there will be an eternal escape from it, but even for them,
that day seems so far off but if there be anything within us that tell us that
death is something that ought not be and perhaps is not even meant to be, there
is a book out there that affirms this and it is called the Bible which calls
itself inspired of the God by whom all things are made (2 Tim. 3:16) and it is
pages contains a history of origins including the origins of the evil, death,
misery, suffering, and pain that we all wish could put an end to or at the very
least, find a way of escape from and not only do the pages of scripture tell us
how death came into the world and why it came into the world, but it also concludes
with a promise that death and all the suffering and pain that came with it will
be done away with and I know of no other religious text or any other
explanation that is able to give as satisfying of an answer for the reason why
death presently reigns and abounds in this world as the divinely inspired
scripture, nor do I know of any that offers any greater of a hope and promise of
its eventual elimination but if we are to understand the reason for why we are
all subjugated to death, we must go back to the beginning of creation itself and
to the world that was before death entered into it.
The
world that was before death entered into it was a world that God had created to
be a place filled with nothing but life, light, happiness, peace, joy, and contentment
and in which existed a perfect and uninterrupted harmony between God, man, and
nature and contrary to those who would have us believe that death is simply a
part of the natural cycle of life, there is no harmony between the two, but
life and death have been at war with one another ever since death itself had
entered into the world and that war between life and death began in spiritual
realm before it was taken into the material realm and it began in the Kingdom
of God in Heaven when a certain angel named Lucifer who had once served as a
covering cherub at the throne of God was so lifted up in his own pride that he
thought that he would make himself equal with God and as a consequence, he and
all who sided with him, were cast from their places in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21,
Ezek. 28:12-19 and it was in that day that Lucifer also became known as Satan
or the Devil and it was he by whose hand death entered into the good and beautiful
world that God had created when Satan came to Adam and his wife Eve who were
the first man and woman whom God had created and led them into committing a transgression
consequential beyond comprehension and that was the eating of a fruit from a
certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which they
had been warned of God that in the day that they ate thereof, they would surely
die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but through false assurances and deceiving them into
thinking that they could attain to greater things if they would but eat of that
forbidden fruit, (Gen. 3:4-5) Satan led Adam and Eve into eating of that fruit
forbidden to them and it was in that day that death came into the world and it
came in by way of the sin that had entered into Adam and Eve when they, being
led by a lie, had eaten of that fruit and when sin had entered into them, the sentence
of death of which they had been warned was pronounced upon them (Gen. 3:19) and
it was in that day that the war between God and Satan which began in Heaven
also became a war for the souls of men and a war between life and death but the
sentence of death did not stop with Adam and Eve but was passed down to all of
us, because we all descend from them, (Rom. 5:12) for sin is not merely
confined to an outward act or even wrongly and evil spoken words, it begins
from within because it is an inward corruption that influences not only speech
and actions, but also defiles our thoughts, darkens our hearts, corrupts our
motives, and poisons our attitudes and because sin is the corrupted condition
of our inward human nature that produces within us things that are contrary to
what God created us to be and because of this corrupted condition, we all sin
and as a consequence, we all die (Rom. 6:23) just as Adam and Eve did but the
consequences of sin have not been kept confined to just man alone, but have, by
way of a curse, been extended to all of creation which is why the creation
groans and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22) which is why the earth
is filled with famines, sickness, disease, death, decay, misery, evil,
suffering, hardship, cataclysms, grief, pain, and sorrow of every sort and
severity, and the dominion over the earth that had once been given to man (Gen.
1:26) also became diminished as the transgression had given Satan justification
to claim lordship over the nations and kingdoms of the world (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk.
4:6-7) which is why he is called the prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11)
and by way of the rule he usurped from man through the lie that brought about
the transgression, death reigns over the world by way of the sin into which we
are born has made us to be estranged from our Creator for that which is sinless
and incorruptible cannot join itself to that which is filled with corruption
and sin and when we take time to examine ourselves before the Lord God Almighty
and not just our acts and even the words we speak, but also every thought,
motive, and attitude of our hearts, it is only then we begin to understand how
we all fall short of the glory of God which (Rom. 3:23) which is moral
perfection and why we are all in need of redemption and because God, in His
love for us and in His mercy toward us, is not willing that any should perish
but that all would come to repentance, (2 Pet. 3:9) has provided us redemption
on our behalf in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who came to earth as a
man to offer Himself up to death on our behalf and did so by His death upon the
cross on which His blood was shed and by the death of Him in whom there is no
sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was the demanded penalty for sin satisfied and mercy granted
and after having offered Himself up as that needed perfect and unblemished
sacrifice, (Heb. 7:26-27) He rose from the grave so that we may be made
justified in Him by our faith in Him for the forgiveness of sins and the
salvation of our souls (Rom. 4:25) from what would otherwise be an unimaginably
agonizing terrifying, fearful, judgment and punishment filled with an
unrelenting torment from which there is no relief day or night for that is what
must be done with all sin and with those who remain in their sins, but those
who call upon the name of Christ for the forgiveness of sins are saved from
that judgment (Rom. 10:13) and are assured a place in Heaven and in the new and
better world to come and with the forgiveness of sins comes the inward
transformation of our souls (2 Cor. 5:17) and reconciliation to God from whom
our sins had once separated us (2 Cor. 5:18) and it is that transformation that
causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but
after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to
no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the
sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to
no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the
truth that comes from Christ Almighty, (Jn. 14:6)
no
longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking
forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to
no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities,
skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet
all of our needs, (Mt. 6:25-33) recognizing that the resources of this world
and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels
through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and
wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us
by God,
to
no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we
will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to
no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and
order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and
precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an
ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon
repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to
pursue for His glory,
to
no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to
no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible
God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our
edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose
to which He has called them,
to
no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the
things of the light,
to
no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge
that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities
to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from
evil.
And
it is this very redemption and transformation that sets us towards the eventual
liberation from death beginning with the redemption of our very souls through
the washing away of our sins and just as our souls are made clean from sin, so
one day also will we be liberated from bodily death when our bodies are
transformed from that which is corruptible into that which is incorruptible (1
Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) for in that which is incorruptible dwells no
sin and where no sin is, death is not.
And
finally, creation itself will be delivered from the curse that came upon it
because of sin when Satan, who brought death into the world through the sin
that he caused to enter into mankind by way of leading them into that fateful
first transgression, is cast out of the world and is made to face his final
defeat and is handed his final sentence (Rev. 20:10-15) and when all of creationis
made anew into a creation in which there is no sin, no death, no curse, no
decay, no evil, no pain, no grief, no misery, no sorrow, no hardship, nor any
suffering of any kind but only peace, joy, harmony, and happiness before the
Lord God Almighty. (Rev. 21-22)
If
you have not done so already and feel the call to repentance, desire to be a
part of a new and better world to come, and to live a life filled with purpose
and meaning, then I urge you reader to call upon the name of Jesus for the
forgiveness of sins. It is but a simple
prayer of sincere faith-filled repentance away:
"Lord
Jesus I need you.
I
realize that I am a sinner
who
has fallen short of the glory of God
and
that my goodness falls short
of
your standard of Moral perfection.
Please
forgive me of all of my sins.
Come
into my heart and into my life
to
be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make
me into the servant and follower
that
you want me to be.
In
your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know
that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him
forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all
sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in
Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven
and your place in Heaven is certain.
End
notes:
1. Bill Gertz, “Hot mic: Xi, Putin chat on
medical transplants highlights concerns about forced organ harvesting,” The
Washington Times, September 4, 2025
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/4/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-chat-medical-transplants-highlights/?utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_id=desktop
2. Ibid.
Scripture
references:
1. 2 Timothy 3:16
2. Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
3. Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
4. Genesis 3:4-5
5. Genesis 3:19
6. Romans 5:12
7. Romans 6:23
8. Romans 8:19-22
9. Genesis 1:26
10. Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
11. John 12:31, 16:11
12. Romans 3:23
13. 2 Corinthians 5:21
14. Hebrews 7:26-27
15. Romans 4:25
16. Romans 10:13
17. 2 Corinthians 5:17
18. 2 Corinthians 5:18
19. John 14:6
20. Revelation 21-22
21. Matthew 6:25-33
22. Matthew 10:28
23. James 1:5
24. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians
4:13-18
25. Revelation 20:10-15
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