Revelation 20 speaks of the binding of Satan at the start of the thousand-year reign of Christ, and 1 Corinthians 15 speaks of the “end” of the age when he delivers the kingdom to God after abolishing all authority and power. It seems clear that 1 Corinthians 15 is the “first resurrection” of Revelation 20….
We should not think of Jesus delivering the kingdom to the Father in 1 Corinthians 15 as if he is relinquishing His post and ending his reign. First, if deliver here means surrender, or abdicate, what does it mean in verse two? The same word in the same chapter speaks of Paul delivering the message…
When Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:24, “then comes the end,” the “end” is the same consistent end spoken of throughout the New Testament – the end of the Jewish era. We have nothing in the scriptures that use this language to refer to the end of time or the end of the world (kosmos)….
A word used to label popular views of the thousand-year reign of Christ is the word “millennial,” which refers to the saints’ reign with Christ for a thousand years. Since the twentieth chapter of Revelation clearly refers to the thousand-year reign of Christ, we should not be opposed to the use of this term. Therefore,…
Several other biblical topics are tied to the last day events. We will place them here under the second coming of Christ because they will be accomplished when he returns. As we divide each topic, we cannot but notice that the content in each section overlap each other because they all pertain to the same…