INTRODUCTION

The Law of First Mention

BEGINNINGS

THE BEGINNING OF DEATH 

The cause of death 
Genesis 2:16-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (NKJV) 
Genesis 3:4
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.” (NKJV) 
The consequence of death 
Genesis 3:22-24
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. (NKJV) 
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; (NKJV) 
Deuteronomy 1:39
‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. (NKJV) 
Numbers14:31 
But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. (NKJV) 
Numbers 14:29
The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. (NKJV) 
The cure for death 
Hebrews 9:27 
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, (NKJV) 
Revelation 20:14 
Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. (NKJV) 
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (NKJV) 
Revelation 2:11 
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” (NKJV) 
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. (NKJV) 
John 11:24
Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” (NKJV) 
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (NKJV)