Many want to MOVE the word "all" in this verse above to match their doctrine, because it doesn't as is.
It clearly says "all die" and "all will be made alive." The same ALL in both cases.
I do not believe that it is the same meaning of that small word at all, because we know that “all“ humanity inherited sin from Adam with no exceptions…….it’s the reason why Jesus had to come from outside of Adam’s flawed DNA, to pay the price of redemption. Jehovah sent his son in that capacity…..to pay a sinless life for a sinless life. Jesus is “the last Adam” because his life paid for what the first Adam took away from us.
The majority who are alive when Christ comes as judge, will not come to him even while the time remains to do so in this world. There are only two roads….one leads to “life”…the other to “destruction”. (Matt 7:13-14)
The majority (many) are happy to travel the easy road, and to live a life alienated from the rules laid down in Scripture by the Creator, whom they either deny or disobey. But this so called freedom to do whatever you like, is simply another form of slavery….just to a different master.…one who does not care about those whom he can take away from God by deception. They are merely trophies in his own rebellion. The Bible is clear…their destiny is in “the lake of fire”. (Eternal death…like they never existed)
Universalism is a sad delusion.
“Like the days of Noah”, Jesus said his return would be (Matt 24:37-39)…..what are we experiencing now that is “like the days of Noah”? Look at the state of the human race and see…..the level of violence and immorality in a world divided against God, each other, and all that is good and righteous, at a time when we have no excuse to be this way. We are more educated now than at at any other time in history….but where has this education taken us? Down the road to complete extinction….and satan has used his minions to guide us down that track….we are well on our way, so unless God steps in soon, no one will survive. How many ways have wicked humans devised to kill each other? They are now more death dealing and heinous than most can imagine. There is an agenda at work that will take us to that point of no return……it was all prophesied.
Those alive in Noah’s day were swept along by the prevailing environment and lived a life that God could no longer tolerate since demonic interference had accelerated wickedness among the human race to such a degree, that to allow it to continue would interfere with the ultimate outworking of his purpose. We are at that point again. Speaking of the “great tribulation” to come, Jesus actually tells us that “unless these days were cut short, no flesh would be saved” (Matt 24:21-22)
The flood was a stop gap measure back then, to take things back to square one, but it did not remove sin from the human race, so Noah’s descendants continued to pass on this terrible inheritance. Only the sacrifice of the Christ would remove the cause of death…..which was then, yet future. God has his own timetable of events and nothing the devil can do will alter it…..
It doesn't say: All in Adam die, so all in Christ will be made alive.
What does it mean to be IN Adam anyway?
All who inherited sin from Adam will die, without exception……but all “in Christ” or all who accept Christ, have an opportunity to keep living, even when all around them perish. How did Noah survive the catastrophe that wiped out the entire human race along with every living, breathing thing that existed on the land? He followed the instructions given to him by his God…to the letter. God told him how to save himself and his family….he didn’t do it for him. So what is the lesson? Is it not the value of obedience in all things, in spite of the difficulty it may impose?
The task assigned to Noah was huge, and would take a great deal of time and effort, but God gave him the time and the instruction that would ultimately save the human race, and keep his purpose for us on track.
And what is the word "so" doing there? It means "in the same way".
As if to say, For in Adam all die, IN THE SAME WAY in Christ all will be made alive.
In the same way death applies tall, so also being made alive again applies to all.
When God told Noah of his intention to bring the flood upon a wicked world, he did not condemn all humanity outright because it says in 2 Peter 2:5…
”And he did not refrain from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people.”
Noah was “a preacher of righteousness” and so all who saw what he was doing, and heard his message, had the option of coming onto the ark with him…..OTOH they also had no excuse to disbelieve him, but as Jesus said “they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away”……can we imagine the pounding on the ark once the waters began to swirl around them, asking to be let on board? But it wasn’t Noah who closed the door…..it was Jehovah. Once that door was shut, not further admittance was possible….again, what is the lesson?
What will be the eternal fate of those who perished in the flood? Only God knows. But he has already told us what the fate will be of those who deny him or disobey him in this “time of the end”. (2 Peter 3:3-7)
The “separating of the sheep from the goats” means everlasting life for the “sheep”…..but everlasting death for the “goats” who are consigned to the same place that is reserved for the devil and his hordes. (Matt 25:31-46) Not hell, but eternal destruction.
Context helps. Death came through Adam, the resurrection of the dead comes through Christ.
Therefore: "all will be made alive." refers to the resurrection of the dead.
Will only those "in Christ" be raised from the dead? Will not all face "judgment"? (evaluation)
Jesus himself confirms that the dead will rise….(John 5:28-29) even “those who practiced vile things” will be given an opportunity to change their ways, many having died in ignorance at times, or in nations that did not know God. But like the people of Noah’s day, we are in a judgment period. Those alive during these last days are given ample opportunity to get to know the God whom Jesus served….yet despite that ample opportunity, they will choose to not know God, and some will disobey despite claiming to know him. Some will even imagine that they are serving God acceptably during this time when he is due to arrive as judge, but he will reject them outright as those he “never knew”. (Matt 7:21-23)
1 Corinthians 15:21-23 NIV
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
What is this scripture actually saying….?
What does “each in turn” mean here?
Christ was “the firstfruits”, or the first human to be raised as a spirit (1 Peter 3:18; John 3:13) “THEN”, or following on from that resurrection, Christ was to return to gather his elect (“those who belong to him”) by resurrecting them to heaven as he promised, but that was not to take place until Christ’s return. They would “sleep” in death, till then. (1 Thess 4:13-17)
The general resurrection of the dead (John 5:28-29) will take place once Christ and his heavenly army have dispatched all opposers on earth who have refused to obey him and who reject his kingdom in favor of supporting their own kingdoms. This is why Jesus told his disciples to be “no part of the world”……because, to be “friends with the world” makes one an “enemy of God” (James 4:4) We are not to be any part of the way humans are governed because of who is the real ruler of this world. (1 John 5:19) There is a puppeteer behind the scenes working his deception….with the three most influential parts of his rulership….corrupt politics, greedy commercialism and false religion. He controls the world through all three by hooking into human imperfection, giving people what they want, rather than being content with what they need. Their “wants” are insatiable because they are based on what the world is seeking…..
”Do not love either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; 16 because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. 17 Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains forever. (1 John 2:15-17)
Where are we in all of this…?
