Christ's Victory Over Death at the Cross

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 10, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 40.

Christ's Victory Over Death at the Cross

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 the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” Matt. 27: 50-53. It is through 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 through Him that loved us.” Rom. 8: 37.