God is…Eternal Life

Matthew 25:46(NKJV)

And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Mark 10:29-31(NKJV)

So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, 

who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life. 

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Luke 18:29-30(NKJV)

So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 

who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

The term eternal life does not appear in the Bible until the New Testament.  I wonder why that is?  I had never realized that before.  It led me to do some reading and found that this is a subject that is widely debated. 

In fact as I read about it the whole concept of Heaven and Hell is a bit sketchy in the OT.  There are some vague mentions of the concept but that is it.  In my research I did however get one question answered that I had always wondered about.

In the OT it does mention all those dead rising up and ascending in to Heaven with Jesus for Judgement.  I had always thought of that as happening at the second coming of Jesus.  However I read one commentary that puts that event at the first ascension in to Heaven.  I hadn't thought of that. 

Interesting!