The End

I Corinthians 15 cont’d:

Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.  For he “has put everything under his feet."

It doesn’t take much to realize that this world is destroying itself.  There are natural disasters, earthly kingdoms that fall due to errors of men, and power of darkness that cause men to perform evil acts on innocent people.  This world is even governed by people in authority who lack wisdom to lead.

There is an end coming.  No one knows when, but the powers that be will be no more, because Jesus died and was raised again.  We’ve been reaffirming this truth over and over again in these past few days of devos.

Right now, one of those powers that rules the earth and all living creatures in it is death.  Jesus destroyed death and its power on the cross when he died and rose again. 

In fact, Jesus’ resurrection destroyed all powers of the earth, and when the end comes, all that has governed this earth will be replaced with all that governs heaven – our God and Savior.

The cool thing is that we can hand over our hearts to him to govern now, while we still live and breathe on this earth.  And then when the end comes, for those who believe, we will just be escorted into this kingdom to receive our new bodies that will never die.

Pretty cool, don’t you think?