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NASB | 1 Corinthians 15:28 When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 15:28 However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [manifesting His glory without any opposition, the supreme indwelling and controlling factor of life]. |
Subject: Don't understand Revelation and 1 Cor 15 |
Bible Note: Hi Searcher (sorry for getting your name wrong previously. My dreadful memory). I have saved the best until last, Daniel 9.24-27. Unfortunately space will not allow me to deal with the passage in full, so I can only give a few pointers. Verse 23 gives us the starting date for the seventy sevens. From the beginning of your supplications the word went forth --’. Thus the commencing date in verse 25 (the going forth of the word) is given in verse 2. It is 538 BC. Unless we ignore the context this is indisputable. We cannot just pick and choose for ourselves when the context gives us the answer. In Daniel ‘sevens’ are an unknown and mystical period of time indicating God’s perfect time period. (There is no mention of ‘years’ and the seventy 'sevens' are in contrast with the seventy 'years' of Jeremiah. ‘Sevens’ replaces years). And there are seventy of them, double perfection. It is the time from 538 BC to the final consummation when verse 24 will be fulfilled. Now I must presume that you are seeing ‘the most Holy’ as referring to the Temple. But in view of what the passage is talking about, the anointing of the Messiah (verse 25), it would appear to me that in context the most Holy is the Messiah, God’s Holy One (Psalm 16.10). In other words by the end of the seventy sevens the Messiah will have been anointed, and all the other things will have been fulfilled. The Messiah is the emphasis of the passage. He is first called ‘the coming anointed Prince’, then ‘the anointed One’, then ‘the Prince Who is coming’, three variations on the Messiah. It is because He has been cut off that His people are mentioned as fulfilling what follows. The word for prince is nagid. This is only used of princes of Israel. Saul was a nagid. David was a nagid. Solomon was a nagid. Furthermore ‘anointed’ is only used of Jews in Daniel. And one other point to notice is that in Daniel treaties and alliances are called just that, they are not called covenants. The only meaning of covenant in Daniel is the covenant with God. Thus the ‘confirming of the covenant’ must refer to a covenant between God and His people. The confirming of the covenant takes place at the end of the sixty ninth seven, when Messiah is cut off, and the covenant is then confirmed with God’s people as the new covenant, confirmed by Jesus in the Upper Room, and later confirmed with all who followed the Messiah as a result of the teaching of the Apostles. The ‘He’ Who causes the sacrifices and oblations to cease is of course God and it possibly He Who confirms covenant. The people of the Prince who will come cannot be an end day king, for Daniel always calls them kings. ‘Prince’ (nagid) is reserved for Jewish princes. Further we have a parallel example to ‘the people of --’ in 7.27 where we have reference to ‘the people of the saints of the Most High’ a parallel phrase to ‘the people of the Prince (nagid) who will come’. And it was in fact the Jews who destroyed Jerusalem, firstly because they slew the Messiah bringing God’s judgment on them, and secondly because so incredible was their behaviour as described by Josephus, who was in close touch with things at that time, that it is clear that they destroyed the city in their conflicts with each other before the Romans ever arrived. Now after His cutting off the city and the Sanctuary will be destroyed (verse 26) and we know that this occurred in 70 AD. In fact it takes place in the midst of the seventieth seven for that was when the sacrifices and oblations were caused to cease (verse 27). From then on the world will go through suffering until the consummation, as in fact Jesus said they would. Thus the only Temple in mind in the passage, if we allow it to interpret itself, and follow the Hebrew closely, is the Temple that was destroyed in 70 AD. Of course those who ignore the context and the clear parallels because they want to fit it into their particular schemes will see it otherwise. Best wishes. |