1 Corinthians 15:26
The Last Enemy in Life to be Destroyed is Death
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
God Has Set Eternity in Our Hearts
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
John 14:1-4
Jesus Would Go to Heaven and Prepare a Place for His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Many have said that death is our last enemy in life...St. Paul said that death is the last enemy to be destroyed...This is similar in saying that death is our last enemy, in the sense of our earthly lives...Jesus has overcome death, and defeated the last enemy in our earthly life...
Death being our last enemy, I believe is a belief that many have...But those who were with Jesus and believed in Him then and now think differently about death...I believe that His Disciples, especially, after seeing Him over and over after His death, had this large belief that our last breath in our lives, is not the end of life -but more of a new beginning...The thoughts on death probably went from a feeling of discomfort about death, to a different point of view of what really happens when they might die...The Disciples view of death had to change, because their Teacher was alive and visited them often after His death...
When Jesus resurrected and came back to earth after His death and for a period of forty days, I truly believe His Disciples had eternity, now hugely placed into their hearts...They knew He had died on the cross and they knew He was dead, yet God resurrected Him and He visited His Disciples many times, over this forty day period...So their seeing Him would put eternity on their minds...And a different point of view about death, and death being the last enemy in their lives...They could now believe that He would, in fact, He did go and prepare a place for them in His Father's house...They could see this as plain as could be that as St. Paul would say later, that our last enemy in life had now been destroyed...
Why do we go about seeing the beauty of life in its time, learning, living, and loving if death is the last breath in a random-chance world?...I do believe however small or large one's faith, that God has placed eternity in our hearts...Even though no one can fathom these things of death, eternity, and faith...