Revelation 1:18

I Hold The Keys!

The Lord Jesus Christ was very busy the three days after His death.  He descended into Hell to take the keys of Death, Hell and the grave!  Jesus Christ never leaves anything undone; He ascends, descends, appears, disappears, walks through walls, walks on water; He's everywhere, all the time; He's God!  

                                                     "{I am} he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold,

       I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the

     keys of hell and of death."

  (Revelation 1:18)

The Lord Jesus Christ was moving and subduing in the Spirit, while His physical body lay in a tomb.  Satan thought he had won, until Jesus Christ burst through Hell's flames and confiscated the keys to death, Hell and the grave!  Our Lord Jesus Christ finishes everything.  The future path for His beloved creation would always rest in the nail-scarred hands of Almighty God.  It makes sense, then, for mankind to follow the Man with the keys!  The Bible states in I Samuel 2:6, "The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up." 

Our Lord and Savior holds the keys to death and Hell and He holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven.  We have innumerable Angels at our disposal; He has given us the power to bind and loose.  Our Lord Jesus Christ died and rose again that we might have life, that means life in earth and life eternally.  Death for the Christian is just a change in location! 

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;

whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,

and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

(Matthew 16:19)



The Lord Jesus Christ is the Man with a Plan!  He holds life, death, hope, joy, peace, love, heaven and hell in His hands.  The Book of Revelation 3:7 says, "To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David.  What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open."    

We have an everlasting promise that if we obey the Word of God, repent and be filled with His Spirit, and walk according to His Holy, righteous commandments, we shall live forever in a Holy place, a place where there are no tears, a place of peace and joy; we will study war no more.  We will dwell forever throughout eternity with The "Key Man."

                           "For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he  

                                        cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him."

                                                                                   (Romans 6:9)

                                                                                                                                                                   By Sheryl Fowler

                                      (Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.

   PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)