Discuss Theology

“…then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when he says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all. And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.” I Corinthians 15. 25-28

“…it is now God’s intention both to reconcile all things to, through and for him and to sum up all things in the Messiah, he is standing firmly against all kinds of dualism which would envisage a final state in which the present created order was abandoned as worthless. Just as at the end of Revelation the new heavens and the new earth are joined together, so in Paul’s thought the triumphant goal of eschatology is that there should be one future for the one world made and loved by the one God. For God to be all in all, as in 1 Corinthians 15.28, it is necessary that, through the Messiah’s victory over death itself, the ultimate corruption of the present world and its inhabitants, creation can be set free from its bondage to decay and share the freedom of the glory of God’s children. Thus the picture is complete: Paul has reimagined every single aspect of the first-century Jewish eschatology around the Jesus the Messiah and his death and resurrection”. Paul in Fresh Perspective, N.T. Wright, pg. 144.

Wright mentions a little earlier that its not that Jesus is coming, but the curtain between the physical and spiritual world will be rolled back for all the see the reality of the Kingdom of God. The creation will continue, but be changed. In other words, we understand, currently, very little of the created order and Christ’s rule.