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This is "the end". The "consummation of the ages" is an invention, a false peg upon
which to hang a false theory. Just notice how the destruction of death is one of a series of
steps toward the goal.
I Corinthians 15: 24-28.
A | 24-. The end.
B | a | -24-. WHEN He delivers up the kingdom.
b | -24. WHEN He abolishes all rule.
c | 25-. FOR He must reign.
d | -25. Till all enemies under foot.
d | 26-. The last enemy; death abolished.
c | -26. FOR He hath put all things under his feet.
b | 27. WHEN. The one exception.
a | 28-. WHEN. The Son Himself subjected.
A | -28. That God may be all in all.
A.--My position I feel is untenable, and I am informed that there is no other passage of
Scripture, except I Cor. 15: 26, that teaches a resurrection from the second death, so I
fear my theories have proved false. I should like to finish the matter though, and see
what is said by way of amplifying the time period.
"When . . . . . . . Then".
B.--You will notice en each section the words "when" and "then".
The end is attained "when He shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father",
and this is not done until all enemies are abolished, and all the redeemed are placed in
their proper rank under Christ. The abolishing of death is timed for us in I Cor. 15: 54
by the words, `When . . . . . then". Isa. 25: 8 contains the verse quoted in I Cor. 15: 54.
It is in a context of Millennial administration:--
"Then the moon shall be confounded, the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts
shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before His ancients gloriously"
(Isa. 24: 23).
"And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat
things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well
refined. And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all
people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people
shall He take away from off all the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it" (Isa. 25: 6-8).
(See also Isa. 26: 1 and 27: 1).
A further note of time is given in I Cor. 15: 52, "At the last trump". In Rev. 11:, at
the sounding of the seventh trumpet, "the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms
of our Lord and of His Christ". Immediately there follows reference to the "great power"
and the "reign" and the "time of the dead", and the "destruction of them that destroy the
earth". These Scriptures therefore place the period in view as being before the second
death.