25/08/2026
THE TRUTH ABOUT DEATH: WHO AND WHAT IS DEATH REALLY?
I greet you all in the name of the living God, who has made these days to come. It is I whose God is fighting for.
Today, I want to talk about **who death really is.**
For long, we have been preaching about other things, but today, it is important that we talk about who death is.
For a long time, you have been hearing about death, but the devils have really taken away from mankind who death really is. And I'm here today to bring to your remembrance once again who death really is. Sadly, many do not even know what and who death really is.
**Genesis 2:16–17:** God commands Adam, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 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.”
This is the first place death was mentioned, and for generations, we have all seen and known death as something that came through disobedience to God. But we have not really known who this death actually is, and that is what I am here to do that day.
Follow me gently and don't rush, for God is leading us on a very serious spiritual journey through these sermons.
# # DEATH AS THE DESTROYER
I will start by showing an interesting thing about death in **Exodus 12:23 NIV**:
> [23] When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
When God wanted to send His last plague upon the Egyptians, which was the death of all the firstborn of both humans and animals, He told Israel to put some of the blood of the lambs He told them to kill on the top and sides of their doorframes because death would pass through all the land of Egypt that night.
But then He went ahead to call that death a name which reveals who and what death really is, which is **a destroyer.**
So, this means that **death is a destroyer.**
**Ecclesiastes 8:8:** The full verse reads:
> "No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge in that war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.”
He said there is no discharge in that war. The day death is coming to end your current life, it is called a day of war, because death was created to be a destroyer. So, whenever he is coming, he is coming to fight war with you, and the Bible said that in that day of war, there is no discharge.
**1 Corinthians 10:10 NIV**
> [10] And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
To experience death is to pass through a process of severe destruction that comes with unimaginable pains and sorrows.
That is why death is called the destroyer, which is death as a person, which is as a being. But there is also death as a place, and that place is being controlled, or will I say ruled, by a being whose name is also death because of its job.
# # THE POWER OF DEATH
**Hebrews 2:14 NIV**
> [14] Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—
Remark that word: **“he who holds the power of death.”**
A being. A spirit holding the power of death.
**Revelation 6:7–8 NIV**
> [7] When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” [8] I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Read carefully: a horse, and that horse had a rider. That rider is the spirit of death itself, and behind it comes Hades.
**Luke 16:23:** "And in hell [Greek: Hades] he lifts up his eyes, being in torments..." (KJV)
This describes a conscious place of suffering for the unrighteous dead before final judgment.
So, with this, we now understand that Hades is hell because Hades is a Greek word that means hell.
# # DEATH BRINGS WAR
So, I brought you to this point to show you that there is a spirit in charge of death, and that spirit is called the destroyer, and it brings war whenever it comes.
Now, let's read **Revelation 6:8 ESV**:
> [8] And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, and famine, and with pestilence, and by wild beasts.
And I tell you, this is war already.
Once that death, whose name is the destroyer, comes, he starts war immediately.
Think about the war going on in the world today, just like Israel placed the Gaza Strip under a strict land, air, and sea blockade and siege in 2007 after Hamas took control of the territory. This blockade was drastically tightened into a total siege following the October 7, 2003/2023 conflict escalation, severely restricting food, water, electricity, and fuel.
And this is war.
That is exactly how death will place the world under siege then.
And by doing so, it causes severe famine, and people will start killing each other more commonly then, and different kinds of problems will follow because that is how death operates.
So, death is simply a destroyer.
# # DEATH AT WAR WITH MANKIND
Go to the hospitals, and you will see people that death is at war with currently, and you will cry for many of them.
You will cry because of their suffering.
Some of them are no longer able to eat because death is busy destroying them.
When death is at war with someone, it might be the person's kidney that it will be busy destroying.
And I say to you, go to the hospitals and see people battling this right now, and see how much they have suffered.
What about the ones battling cancer?
Consider how much suffering and pain they are passing through.
When death is at war with someone, because he is a destroyer, it might be the person's heart that he will be destroying, and the heart won't be able to pump blood again.
It might be the liver that it will face and be destroying.
Think about this.
Some, it will just destroy once through an accident.
**Death is nothing but a destroyer.**
But wait...
**We have only just begun.**
I have brought you this far because I want you to first understand something that many people have never taken the time to examine: **who and what death really is.**
There is still much more to this mystery.
We have spoken about death as a destroyer.
We have spoken about the power of death.
We have spoken about the rider whose name is Death and Hades following behind him.
But there is still a deeper question that we must answer.
**Where did death come from?**
**Who gave death its power?**
**Why does death have the authority to kill?**
**What happens to a person when death takes the body?**
**Where does the spirit go?**
**What exactly is Hades?**
**Is death truly the final destination of mankind?**
And perhaps the most important question of all:
**Why did Jesus Christ come into this world, and what exactly did His death accomplish concerning the power of death?**
There are scriptures that will take us even deeper into this matter.
There are things about death that many people have never considered.
There are things written in the Word of God that we must carefully examine.
So, **do not rush ahead.**
This is a journey, and I want you to follow it step by step.
For now, **I will stop here.**
But we will continue.
And when we continue, we will go deeper into the Word of God to examine **the origin, authority, operation, and ultimate destiny of death.**
So, I encourage you:
**Do not miss the next part.**
Because we have not yet reached the deepest part of the matter.
**This is only the beginning.**
Until the next teaching, may God give you understanding and open your eyes to the truth of His Word.
**TO BE CONTINUED...**
# # # THE TRUTH ABOUT DEATH
**PART ONE — THE DESTROYER**
*Follow patiently. There is much more to discover.*