What does it mean for God to be "all in all"?

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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
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28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
 
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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
English Standard Version
28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
God created the light and the darkness (good and evil) and separated (divided) them (daily) to do away with evil, as a cleansing. Christ has recovered and returned what is good to the Father, that all in God is good.
 
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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
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28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Dear NotTheRock,
God the Father will only be "all in all" when Christ finishes the mission that the Father sent Him to accomplish:

1John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

After Christ completes His work, God the Father's Spirit will indwell all mankind, making them "one" with Him just as Christ is one with the Him.

John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

The verse above describes how God the Father births new children. After Christ saves the last person of mankind, God will be all in all - no one left out of the family of God.

1Tim 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; 4 who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Phi 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Rom 5:18 so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life. 19 For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

1Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.


Of course, if you don't believe that Christ will actually save all mankind (all who have died in Adam), then you will not be able to understand how God will be "all in all" when Christ delivers up the Kingdom of Heaven to the Father.

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All in all means there will no longer be any rebellion against God. All the evil will be gone, destroyed, dealt with.

We will see a new earth and new heaven, and there won't be anything bad, it will all be good again like it was at the creation.

This creation saw a rebellion against God, the new creation won't.
Gen 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
 
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All in all means there will no longer be any rebellion against God. All the evil will be gone, destroyed, dealt with.

We will see a new earth and new heaven, and there won't be anything bad, it will all be good again like it was at the creation.

This creation saw a rebellion against God, the new creation won't.
Gen 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
And THAT is why we preach the dire dire need to beleive on JESUS the CHRIST .
Visualize this next scenario scott .
Imagine anyone in this world having been found guilty of a crime
and right before the judge passes the sentence he says to the criminal
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU CAN BE PARDONED . I BET EVERYONE WOULD SAY HECK YEAH I DO .
and yet MANY DENY JESUS THE CHRIST . YET HE ALONE IS HOW we are reconciled , forgiven , pardoned , justified .
BUT folks dont wanna preach that message anymore .
THERE is but one way , one name bywhich one can be saved , That NAME IS JESUS THE CHRIST
and YE MUST BELIEVE IN HIM .
 

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Hebrews 12

Hear the Heavenly Voice​

25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
 
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And THAT is why we preach the dire dire need to beleive on JESUS the CHRIST .
Visualize this next scenario scott .
Imagine anyone in this world having been found guilty of a crime
and right before the judge passes the sentence he says to the criminal
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU CAN BE PARDONED . I BET EVERYONE WOULD SAY HECK YEAH I DO .
and yet MANY DENY JESUS THE CHRIST . YET HE ALONE IS HOW we are reconciled , forgiven , pardoned , justified .
BUT folks dont wanna preach that message anymore .
THERE is but one way , one name bywhich one can be saved , That NAME IS JESUS THE CHRIST
and YE MUST BELIEVE IN HIM .
@amigo de christo
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All in all means there will no longer be any rebellion against God. All the evil will be gone, destroyed, dealt with.

We will see a new earth and new heaven, and there won't be anything bad, it will all be good again like it was at the creation.

This creation saw a rebellion against God, the new creation won't.
Gen 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
THE WHOLE WORLD is found GUILTY BEFORE GOD .
GOD WILL EXECUTE the fierceness of HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT upon the evil and destroy all evil and wicked works .
BUT BEFORE HE DO , REMEMBER HE SENT THE SON SO as all who do beleive WOULD BE PARDONED
of the just sentence of death we so deserved . FOR GOD DOES LOVE the world and does desire the death of none .
ONLY , MOST are trying to remove HIS PARDON . You know , THE ONLY NAME WHEREBY THEY COULD BE SAVED .
 

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For our God is a consuming fire.
All that is wicked and evil will be burned up in His wrath.
Leaving the unshakeable new creation, of which you are new creations in Christ, if you have believed and trusted in Christ whom God sent.

The Great Day of God is Coming​

1 “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will leave them neither root nor branch.

2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

3 You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,
Says the Lord of hosts.

4 “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
 
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THE WHOLE WORLD is found GUILTY BEFORE GOD .
GOD WILL EXECUTE the fierceness of HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT upon the evil and destroy all evil and wicked works .
BUT BEFORE HE DO , REMEMBER HE SENT THE SON SO as all who do beleive WOULD BE PARDONED
of the just sentence of death we so deserved . FOR GOD DOES LOVE the world and does desire the death of none .
ONLY , MOST are trying to remove HIS PARDON . You know , THE ONLY NAME WHEREBY THEY COULD BE SAVED .
@amigo de christo
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The sudden destruction of the wicked is coming. The first worldwide judgement on evil a destruction by water in Noah's day swept them all away except for 8 persons and some animals in the ark, as did also Jesus testify of. Which still left earth and heavens.

The second judgement of God on the wicked is by fire and a new earth and heaven afterwards following the Day of Judgement.
This coming destruction is very through purging everything by the fire of God, even the elements will melt with fervent heat as Peter says..

1 Thessalonians 5

The Day of the Lord

1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be [a]sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

11 Therefore comfort each other and [c]edify one another, just as you also are doing.
 
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The sudden destruction of the wicked is coming. The first worldwide judgement on evil a destruction by water in Noah's day swept them all away except for 8 persons and some animals in the ark, as did also Jesus testify of.

The second judgement of God on the wicked is by fire and a new earth and heaven afterwards following the Day of Judgement.

1 Thessalonians 5

The Day of the Lord

1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be [a]sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

11 Therefore comfort each other and [c]edify one another, just as you also are doing.
yes indeed the true beleivers in JESUS the CHRIST will not face the wrath of GOD .
But lets take heed to something . This intefaith lie of anti christ , LOOK what it beleives this will usher in , PEACE N SAFETY
And it has DENEID JESUS the CHRIST . This song of the piep piper
is never gonna attain the very world peace n safety they so sought after , IT gonna bring down
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION upon them all and they will not escape .
They crying more and more as one , SEND US A SAVOIR to give peace in the middle east and the world
AND THEY all gather believing all religoins are fine and different ways to GOD . JESUS HAS BEEN DENIED
i just wonder WHO IT IS they being led to ............................ANTI CHRIST and his PEACE .
 

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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
English Standard Version
28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
The Revised Standard Version puts it this way:

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.
 
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There is One God and He has several "roles"/jobs/responsibilities/names

A person can be a grandfather, a father, a son, a farmer all at the same time , but are one person in different roles

Isaiah 9:6 tell us all the roles of God, of father, son, counselor

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


Jesus is God walking in a flesh body on earth. The Father role is in Heaven, Jesus role was on earth at the same time .. different dimensions.

There is One Throne.. One King.. One Lord

The "role" of Father and the "role" of Son as Jesus are in Heaven as Jesus ascended

The Holy Spirit is God's Mind, power, intellect, authority, positive thoughts

To every positive there is a negative and that is Lucifer trying to take over as God and steal His identity. "Antichrist" means instead of Christ. Lucifer gets kicked out of Heaven and pretends to be Jesus returned. But Jesus does not return until the last trumpet which is the 7th trumpet after the fake "jesus" is here first pretending to be the true Jesus.
 

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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
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28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

Here is a way to understand "all in all", and this verse is talking about Jesus.

Colossians 1:16
 

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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
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28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

Yeah, it's a mystery that will remain until it happens, but we are given hints.

Where was God's Garden of Eden before... Adam and Eve sinned? (See Gen.2).

Where is God's Garden of Eden after... Adam and Eve sin? (See Gen.3:22-24).

Per the future new heavens and a new earth time, the last verse of Ezekiel 48 has a phrase that says, "The LORD is there", meaning the Holy City on earth in that future time...

Ezek 48:35
35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
KJV


So Paul is pointing to the 'full' Godhead returning in final after Christ's future 1,000 years reign, when all wickedness and hell is destroyed in the "lake of fire". How will The Father return to this earth? Don't know, but Gen.1 showed that He has the Image of man that He created us with.
 
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This is a mystery to me that will likely remain so until it happens. What do you think it means?

1 Corinthians 15:28
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28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
God in all and all....1 Cor 15:28c

1. It is the future state of those chosen, and one that will last forever.

2. It is when the Harvest is complete, when the Kingdom of all chosen and in Christ have become immortal. We become as Christ and directly in spirit with the same Father as Christ has been since his ministry on earth and in his new immortality in heaven.

3. God, our Father then can then be in all of his people, fully in spiritual one accord, as one.

4. At this time, Yahshua and all chosen in him before this time, will be the same in spirit to the Father. The Harvest is completed.

(1Co 15:22) For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

(1Co 15:23) But each in his own order. Christ the firstfruits, then they that are Christ's, at his coming.

(1Co 15:24) Then comes the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

(1Co 15:25) For he must reign until He has put all his enemies under his feet.

(1Co 15:26) The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.

(1Co 15:27) For He put all things in subjection under his feet. But when He said all things are put in subjection, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject all things to him.

(1Co 15:28) And when all things have been subjected to him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to Him that did subject all things to him, that God may be all in all.

We are all then at that time, along with our once lord and savior, be all subject to the Father, the same one God of all!
 
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