Originally posted by Rajk999
But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28 KJV)
Christ will deliver the kingdom to God AND BE SUBJECT TO GOD. GOD WILL RULE.
But sonship says NO!
I do believe the passage just as it is stated.
I just don't believe it makes
Hebrews 1:8 NOT true.
Do you wish me to say any of this means the Son's kingdom is terminated and He no longer reigns ? Then how can I believe that the Son's kingly
"throne is forever and ever" ?
So then how are we to understand that it is
subject to God at the end of the millennium? It cannot mean that the son is an enemy of God, not currently subject to God.
it cannot mean that in the past the Son on earth was subject to God, then at the millennium He ceases to be subject to God, and then at the end of it He returns to being subject to God.
It can't mean a suspension of the Son's submission to His Father, not during the church age or during the 1,000 year kingdom.
There exists no competition between God and Christ.
There exists no rivalry between God and Christ.
There exists no confusion between the reigning of God and the reigning of Christ.
Verse 28, take as follows:
Christ, the Son of God, in His humanity is the head of mankind. Christ in His humanity is under the headship of God the Father
(First Cor. 11:5)
This is for the government of God's kingdom. After God the Father has subjected all things under the feet of Christ as a resurrected man in glory as spoken in
(Eph. 1:22; Heb. 2:7,8) and after Christ as a resurrected man has put all enemies under His feet to execute God the Father's subjection of all things to Him, He as the Son of God, along with His delivering of the kingdom back to God the Father
(v.24), will also subject Himself in His divinity to God, who has subjected all things to Him, the Son in His humanity.
This indicates the Son's absolute subjection to the Father.
This indicates the Son's absolute subordination to the Father.
This exalts the Father that God the Father may be all in all.
In all of these, in every detail of this, the throne of the Son's kingdom is still
"forever and ever" (Hebrews 1:8) .
The picture we have in the closing book of Revelation is of God as the light shining out from Christ as the redeeming Lamb on the ONE throne for eternity. And that is
"the throne [singular]
of God and ofthe Lamb".
"And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb." (Rev. 21:23)
"And He showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne [singular] of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street." (22:1)
From the ONE throne of the Triune God, flows out of that administration the divine Spirit of God as eternal life into all of the city of God. God as the divine light shines from within the Lamb, the Godman Redeemer. And on the one throne of the Father in the Son dispenses out into the saved the divine nature and life as the bright water of life - the Spirit of life - the Holy Spirit.
The eternal reign of the Trinity is absolutely upheld in the Bible through the millennium and beyond, forever and ever.