18 The testimony we bear concerning God, namely, that He raised the Christ-man from the dead, has no meaning in it.
19 If the Christ exists for this world only and has no eternal existence, we are the most miserable of all the dwellers on this planet!
20 But the Christ has risen, and his rising is the commencement of a similar resurrection for the whole world.
21-22 His re-appearance after death is like the first fruits of a mighty harvest.
23 The increase and growth of this vast divine process will first include all who belong to him, when his eternal presence will become apparent throughout the world;
24 and this process will continue till “the end” when there shall exist not one single power, influence or authority that moves contrary to His will, but everything will be subordinate to the infinite God and Father of All, the Creator.
25-27 Everything that opposes must be reversed and subdued just there where it arose, namely in man on earth, until there be nothing left that opposes, and until death itself has been completely obliterated. That will be the end, when death is ended, and God is All-in-all, and even the Christ that saves and redeems exists only as the eternally perfect son subject to the infinite Father, there being no more enemies from which to save and redeem us, thus fulfilling the meaning of the Scriptures. For the reign of the Christ will continue on earth for a finite period, namely, until “He has made his enemies his foot-stool” (Ps. cx. 1), until all finite death-conditioned things are overruled. “He hath put all things under his feet” (Ps. viii. 6).