People are punished by death if they don't obey the rules - of life. So, find someone who has obeyed the rules of life so well that they are alive after hundreds and thousands of years. Jesus was so obedient to the rules of life that He died and came back to life in 3 days. --- This whole universe is going down the tubes. You can see this in the fact that everyone dies. Jesus did what he did to save the souls - the inner identities - of all who believe in His strength to save them for the new universe that God is making. There will be no disobedience in that new universe. There will only be obedience and better obedience - good and better. There will be no death there, forever. This is the main message of Jesus. Obeying Him for this life might bring a bit of prosperity here. But what He really wants is for us to believe in Him to be saved for the new universe.