answer is difficult to harmonize with the idea that Christ is functionally subordinate to the Father even as he reigns with him. I have offered a reading of 1 Corinthians 15 that fits with John’s depiction of the millennium in Revelation 20, and I think that what we are dealing with in 1 Corinthians 15:24 and 28 can easily be read in harmony with the kinds of statements we find in Revelation 21 and 22. Consider, for instance, Revelation 22:3: “No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne
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