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spoken of this as being a positive statement that some would not experience a natural death
before they saw Christ revealed in glory. Some have suggested that this was fulfilled when
Christ was transfigured upon the mount in the presence of Peter and James and John.
Let me suggest to you another interpretation that is in keeping with the context of the
passage. Yahshua had just declared that all who seek to save their natural, fleshly and
soulish lives would lose them, and only those who died to their natural life by taking up the
cross would know true life, the divine life of God. He then says that some of those to whom
He is speaking will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
What death has He been talking about? Has He been speaking of the physical death of
men’s bodies? No! He has been speaking of the death that is defined as taking up the cross.
Yahshua was declaring that among those He spoke to, some would not know this death to
the soulish nature of man until they saw Him coming in His kingdom.
These are not positive words He is speaking. They are words of great sorrow and
calamity. Christ was declaring that many men would wait too long to experience the death
that they were called to embrace. A death to the natural life of Adam. Some would not taste
of this death until they saw the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. This is why we read of
such a grievous response from mankind when the sign of Christ’s coming occurs.

Matthew 24:30-31
And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of
the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the
sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great
trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end
of the sky to the other.

Do you know who will be mourning the most? It will be those who have been
confessors of Christ, but who have avoided the working of the cross in their lives. These will
have avoided tasting of death to their fallen nature until it is too late. They will not be
counted among the elect, the overcomers, and they will have their names blotted out of the
Lamb’s book of life. The Lamb’s book of life has recorded in it the names of all those who
have embraced the working of the cross, who have allowed God to bring them to a
conformity to Christ in this life, that they might not have to experience the purging of the
Lake of Fire.
Saints, listen to the words of Scripture:

Psalms 69:28
May they be blotted out of the book of life and may they not be recorded with the
righteous.

Revelation 3:4-5
But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they
will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will thus be
clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and
I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

Revelation 20:15
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into