So when He pronounced death upon the human race it was because Adam and Eve had disobeyed God and turned from the truth. Though the warning of the Lord had come in soundness and simplicity man chose to sin, knowing all the while that it meant death. Man cannot plead innocency on the ground of the sovereignty of God. He is appointed to die because he has transgressed the Law of God, and the Lord's justice in the sentence of death is so undeniable that every mouth is stopped and all the world is guilty before Him. Every time that death strikes and a loved one is suddenly taken away, it is as if we hear the cachinnation of sin and Satan.
Sin plays with man for a time just as a cat plays with a mouse.
In the end sin has tracked down each of us, and each pays with his life. Death is still in our midst holding the whole world in fear and subjection. Because our nature is sinful and our hearts wicked, death continues to prick us and drive us toward the grave as the goad drives an ox to slaughter. Jesus said that ours is a wicked and an adulterous age. Even to the end of the millennium death will hold within its grasp all the wicked dead.