death, rather than sin, that is considered to be the “last enemy” (1 Cor 15:24–25). In the book of Revelation the last thing to be thrown into the Lake of Fire is death and Hades. And at the end of Romans 7, Paul’s long discussion of his experience in wrestling with sin, he concludes with a peculiar cry: “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” The root of Paul’s “sin problem” seems to be that he has, just like the rest of us, a body that is “subject to death.”
