The order of death under which humanity now languishes will be dramatically overthrown in an event inaugurated by the day of the Lord called “the resurrection of the dead” (Matt. 22:31; Acts 23:6; 1 Cor. 15:21, 42; Heb. 6:2). Lying at the heart of the new creation model, this event will be the ultimate creative miracle of God—“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” (1 Cor. 15:52)—instantaneously reversing mankind’s existential train wreck. Indeed, “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” (1 Cor. 15:54). Death is neither normal nor natural. The heart of the Jewish apocalyptic hope is a new heavens and new earth, inaugurated by the day of God, when death itself is overcome and “swallowed up.” - John P. Harrigan