Like all great stories that us humans tell one another “The Wizard of Oz” mirrors THE STORY that we are all living in. And very much as it was with Oz, so it is with Earth. The whole width and breadth of the land lies under the intimidating, menacing oppression of a fantastic bully whose name is death. However, Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us, “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.”

According to verse 15, one of the things that Jesus accomplished on the cross was liberating all of us munchkins from lifelong slavery to the fear of that bully. Sing it with me, “Ding dong the death is dead!” Or as 1 Corinthians 15:55-56 puts it,

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”