DEATH AND LIFE ARE REALMS

To fully appreciate and express our immortality in Christ, we need to also understand death and life as realms. Generally, a realm is the field or a dimension of a certain activity. In kingdom terminology, a realm is the territory of the influence or governing power of a king. Now, death and life being realms simply means, death and life are dimensions or territories of their influence. In the experience of humanity, the realm of death is in darkness. Coming to deliver man from the governing power of death, Jesus said in John 12:46, "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness". No one can physically die, until he is in the realm of death. This is the realm into which Adam's error dragged all mankind before the era of Christ (Genesis 2:17, Romans 5:12).