Death is the Last Enemy, that is, the last enemy to be destroyed chronologically. Death is a person and he must be seen as an enemy of life that one must fight, except that no person can defeat him. Death is the human condition and everyone (poets, philosophers, scientists, wise men, theologians, lawyers, doctors, rich and poor alike, high and low and in between) knows it.
Death is an obvious truism, so why even teach it? “Wisdom” says, “You will die.” I already know that, but Wisdom still expounds this riddle. All the money in the world can’t buy life for it is too precious. All that Wisdom can offer is the advice not to envy the rich since they can’t buy life and stop Death either. The only solution is to fear the Lord and trust Him: “God will redeem me from the power of death, for He will receive me.” The Old Testament believer expresses this truth as a hope; the New Testament believer can express this as a certainty: Jesus redeems; He has bought my life; what He has I also have; what He is I shall become like. This Truth gives Life and overcomes Death, guaranteed. Today I can live.