2 Timothy 1:10
10 But [de] is [phaneroo] now [nun] made manifest [phaneroo] by [dia] the appearing [epiphaneia] of our [hemon] Saviour [soter] Jesus [Iesous] Christ, [Christos] who [men] hath abolished [katargeo] death, [thanatos] and [de] hath brought [photizo] life [zoe] and [kai] immortality [aphtharsia] to light [photizo] through [dia] the gospel: [euaggelion] KJV-Interlinear
10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, NASB
In eternity past, God put forth a plan, which called for salvation for those who would believe in Christ, as a result of the work of Christ on the Cross.
Since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden, God gave humanity a promise that He would manifest himself in the form of a man, and pay the price of sin, which is death, such that none would have to make that payment, and for the mere acceptance of His work, then each would receive eternal life.
From the time of Adam, until the first advent of Christ, that promise, was nothing more than just that, a promise that had yet to be fulfilled.
Satan was and is the author of death and all suffering that exists. It was his purpose to intervene in history and destroy Gods plan. But of course Satan failed. He fails at everything that he does.
Revealed by His appearing, is a phrase that means, due to the first advent and the work which Christ accomplished on the Cross, then that promise of salvation and eternal life, has now been fulfilled.
Prior to the Cross, people could only look forward to the fulfillment of that promise. Since the Cross, we can look back and see the promise fulfilled and now in force.
Prior to the Cross, all who believed in the Savior, when they died, went to Paradise, one of the four compartments in the underworld called Hades. There they were held captive, not by God, but due to Satan’s complaint, and were not released until Christ had completed His work on the Cross.
Once the Cross was complete, then Jesus Christ, after the Cross, went into Paradise and retrieved all who were there, and led them out in a great victory parade, and victory procession, to heaven, and now all believers who die do not go to Paradise, but straight to Heaven.
However, death in its permanency sense, no longer exists. God has promised yet another promise, and that is that one day, just as Christ was resurrected, so too, all believers will be resurrected out from death, and into resurrection bodies and life, to live forever and ever.
That will be the fulfillment of this promise. When the resurrection occurs for all, at the end of history, then death will have been abolished, rendered powerless, and obliterated permanently and forever.
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