Life from Death

The New York Times reports that living plants have been generated from the fruit of a plant that died 32,000 years ago in northeastern Siberia. Seems that ground squirrels gathered the fruit and stored it in its burrow on the tundra, where it was kept at -7 degrees Celcius all these many years. The plant is the narrow-leafed campion.
If the plant could speak, it would say, “I was dead and now I am alive again!” Now where have I heard that before? Let me think..oh, yes, in the Book of Revelation. Jesus said something like that. In fact, here’s what he said: ““Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades” (Revelation 1:17-18 ESV).
In another place, Jesus said, “Because I live, you will live also” (John 14:19 NASB).
The Apostle Paul told us more: “I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:50-54 NIV).
Congratulations, little plant, but you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!