THE 153 GAVELS AGAINST DEATH GLOBALLY

The Sound of the Gavel

There is a sound that silences every other sound in the room. It is the sound of the gavel.

When a judge raises the gavel and brings it down upon the sounding block, every voice falls silent, every argument ceases, every objection is overruled. The gavel does not negotiate. The gavel does not deliberate. The gavel announces what has already been decided. It is the sound of finality. It is the sound of verdict. It is the sound of authority that cannot be appealed.

This book contains 153 Gavels-prophetic, apostolic, Christological verdicts-issued from the highest court in the universe: the throne room of the Living God. Each gavel falls against the kingdom of disease. Each gavel falls against the dominion of death. Each gavel falls against the darkness that sustains them both. And like every gavel that has ever fallen in any courtroom on earth, these gavels are final.

Martin Luther understood the power of the gavel. When he stood before the Diet of Worms in 1521 and declared, "Here I stand; I can do no other; so help me God," he was bringing down a prophetic gavel upon the entire corrupt system of his age. And when he nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, the sound of his hammer striking those nails into the oak was the sound of a divine gavel falling upon the system of indulgences. Luther's hammer-PATTISH (פַּטִּישׁ) in the Hebrew of Jeremiah 23:29, ARZOPHA in the Aramaic of the Peshitta, SPHYRA (σφῦρα) in the Greek-was not merely a carpenter's tool. It was a judicial instrument. It was a prophetic gavel. And the verdict it announced changed the course of human history.

Today, in the same spirit, 153 Gavels are brought down upon the courtroom of the nations. The defendant is death. The co-conspirators are disease and darkness. The evidence is overwhelming. The verdict is irreversible. And the Judge-the Lord Jesus Christ, the Righteous Judge of all the earth (Genesis 18:25; II Timothy 4:8)-has already rendered His decision:

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." - I Corinthians 15:26

The gavel has fallen. There is no appeal.

Dr. BenyPowerful