Christ destroys the last enemy...death.
Something I posted on Facebook recently.
This tidbit of truth from the Bible could be categorized under: Fundamental error.
1st Corinthains 15:24 then the end, when He shall hand over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He shall have annulled all dominion, and all authority and power. 25 For it behooves Him to reign until He shall have put all the enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy to be abolished is death. 27 For “He has put in subjection all things under His feet.” But when it may be said that all things have been put in subjection, it is evident that the One having put in subjection all things to Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things shall have been put in subjection to Him, then also the Son Himself will be put in subjection to the One having put in subjection all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
The end in the first verse where Christ hands the kingdom over to the Father is the cross. Before the cross Jesus annulled all dominion, authority and power.
John 18:6 shows his dominion, authority and power exercised against the government and its soldiers. John 8:59 over mobs attempting to kill him. John 9:1-34 over disabilities, in this case a man born blind. Luke 4:40 over all sickness and disease. Matthew 8:29, over demons. John 2:1-11 and Matthew 14:15-21 over the elements. Luke 8:22-25 over the earth. Mark 2:3-12 over sin. Matthew 4:1-11 over temptation. Luke 5:4-11 over the animal kingdom.
Verses 25-26 says Jesus reigned until he put all of his enemies under his feet and then he abolished the last enemy death, with his resurrection. Verse 27 tells us how he did this, (as a human being.) The One who put all things under his feet when he walked this earth was God his Father. Everything was put in subjection to Jesus with the exception of God the Father. Verse 28 says once all was conquered then Jesus was put in subjection to the one who subjected all things to him. This happened when Jesus voluntarily surrendered himself in the Garden of Gethsemane to the authorities’ intent on killing him.
John 16:33 I have spoken these things to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world."
The word overcome in this verse means to conquer and prevail in battle. That is what Jesus did AS KING. The fundamental error is thinking that Jesus came only as a suffering servant and will someday return as a conquering king. What he did was come as a conquering king who then gave his life for the sins of the world that God may be all in all, as the 1st Corinthians 15:28 says.
His kingdom that is currently being built is not modeled on the worlds kingdoms of that day. If you want to see it, or at least its effects, as it is invisible. All you have to do is look at the free world created and built by Christians and others influenced by the Bible and the laws of nature. There was no such world in any way shape or form back then.
Fear not Jesus says; Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
