Friday, October 27, 2017

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Church at Corinth
Chapter 15:23-25

23 But every man in his own order: the first-fruits is Christ, afterward, they that are of Christ, at his coming shall rise again.
24 Then shall be the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he hath put down all rule, and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

Related Scripture:

Verse 23 - 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Verse 25 - Psalm 110:1; Acts 2:34; Hebrews 1:13, 10:13

Afterward; The whole harvest. At the same time the wicked shall rise also. But they are not here taken into the account. After the resurrection and the general judgment. Cometh the end (Read Matthew 24:1-31), of the world; the grand period of all those wonderful scenes that have appeared for so many succeeding generations. When he shall have delivered up the kingdom to the Father, and he (the Father) shall have abolished all adverse rule, authority, and power - Not that the Father will then begin to reign without the Son, nor will the Son then cease to reign. For the divine reign both of the Father and Son is from everlasting to everlasting. But this is spoken of the Son's mediatorial kingdom, which will then be delivered up, and of the immediate kingdom or reign of the Father, which will then commence. Till then the Son transacts the business which the Father hath given him, for those who are his, and by them as well as by the angels, with the Father, and against their enemies. So far as the Father gave the kingdom to the Son, the Son shall deliver it up to the Fathe. Nor does the Father cease to reign, when he gives it to the Son; neither the Son, when he delivers it to the Father: but the glory which he had before the world began. (Read Hebrews 1:8), will remain even after this is delivered up. Nor will he cease to be a king even in his human nature. If the citizens of the new Jerusalem" shall reign for ever," (Read Revelation 22:5), how much more shall he? He must reign, because so it is written. Till He, the Father hath put all his enemies under his feet.” - John Wesley

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