Why God Made You Mortal First
Moses lived to be 120.
He still counted a human life as short. “The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years” (Psalm 90:10).
Seventy years is about 3,640 weeks. For generation after generation, those weeks have ended in the grave.
So why start there? If God wants a Family of spirit-born sons, why not create them finished? Why begin with dust, temptation, and a body that can die?
The Shocking Destiny of Mankind (Week 14) showed what you were born to become — a child in the Family of God. God made you mortal first because He is building what He will not create by command — holy, righteous character. Character is the settled will to choose God’s way under pressure. Your Bible shows that created perfection can fail, that character is formed through tested choice, and that mortality is a mercy.
Created Perfection Is Not Proven Character
God has already made spirit beings. Ezekiel 28 addresses the king of Tyre. But verses 13–15 describe someone no human king ever was. This being was “in Eden, the garden of God.” He was “the anointed cherub who covers.” The prophecy looks past the man to the spirit being behind his throne.
God says of that being: “You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you” (verse 15). He was made perfect. He did not stay perfect. Jude adds that angels “did not keep their proper domain” (Jude 6).
A perfect spirit being became the devil. God will not take that risk with His sons.
Character Is Formed by Choice Under Testing
Why “Saved” Christians Aren’t Saved Yet (Week 21) showed that character cannot be manufactured. It must be chosen. God told Israel, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Then He tested the choice. He led Israel forty years through the wilderness “to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not” (Deuteronomy 8:2).
Yeshua (Jesus) never sinned (Hebrews 4:15). Yet Hebrews says that “though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered” (Hebrews 5:8). He learned by experience what obedience costs. If the sinless Son learned obedience through suffering, so must the sons.
Mortality Is a Mercy, Not a Mistake
After Adam sinned, God guarded the way to the tree of life, “lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (Genesis 3:22).
Notice the reason. God would not give endless life to a man still in rebellion. Mortality gives time to repent. It also limits how long any human rebellion can last. Satan does not grow old. “That serpent of old” still “deceives the whole world” (Revelation 12:9).
Eternal life, by definition, does not end. God promises it (Titus 1:2). So He uses this mortal life to prove the will before He grants the gift.
Why This Matters for the Kingdom
The Kingdom of God is a government with real power over the earth. A perfect cherub, entrusted with power, turned against God. God will never hand His power to a son whose loyalty has not been tested.
So He trains His future rulers now, while repentance is still possible. “If we endure, We shall also reign with Him” (2 Timothy 2:12). Endurance comes first. Reigning follows.
Every temptation you resist and every trial you carry God’s way is part of that proving. The Kingdom will be ruled by sons and daughters whose loyalty was tested in the flesh and settled before the resurrection gives them spirit power.
Conclusion
You were born mortal for a reason. God is reproducing Himself, and the one thing He will not create by command is the character His sons must have. So He made you flesh, set a choice before you, and lets life test it. He is preparing character that can endure forever.
Ignore this, and trials look like punishment or chance, and the years God gave you are wasted.
You cannot number your days until you know what they are for.
Now you do.
“So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
