Dutch websiteIs Death Abolished When It Is Cast Into “the Lake of Fire”?
When death is cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20:14), that is not the abolishing of death (1 Cor. 15:26), but a continuation of death. Those who were formerly dead and rose for the judgment at the great white throne will die again. All who are dead from then on are dead for the second time. In this way, death is not abolished, but repeated. Hence: “the second death.”
A second reason why, when death and the realm of the dead are cast into the lake of fire, death has not yet been abolished, is that afterward Christ and His own still reign as kings (Rev. 22:5). Whereas Paul teaches that when death has been abolished, Christ will no longer be reigning, and He will be giving up the Kingdom to God the Father (1 Cor. 15:22–28).
The third reason why Rev. 20:14 cannot be the fulfillment of 1 Cor. 15:26 is that death can only be abolished by making all mankind alive (1 Cor. 15:22–28). Only then is there no more death, and only then has death actually been swallowed up in victory (1 Cor. 15:54)!
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How Christ abolishes death
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