The Hereafter

The Hereafter

God’s Law indicates an eternal continuance with Him.

And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers.” Deuteronomy 31:16

God declared Himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, as Jesus explained, but of the living (Matt. 22:29-32). By this Jesus meant to correct the Sadducees who were trying to catch Him with a question that seemed to preclude the idea of a resurrection from the dead. Jesus’ reply was to say that God was teaching about the resurrection as far back as Exodus 3.

The Law only hints at what subsequent revelation will make abundantly clearer: there is a realm beyond this temporal existence where the faithful continue forever in the presence of the Lord. This is the destination to which all may expect to be delivered who, like Moses, walk in obedience to God and His Covenant.

The worldview of God’s Law thus begins and ends in the unseen realm, the realm of spiritual vision. Further, it is sustained by that realm, by the Word and angels of the Lord. The worldview of God’s Law comes from beyond this world to bring fullness of life to those dwelling in this world, and to prepare them for a greater world yet to come, where the faithful have gone before them to the presence of the Lord.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T. M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.