Hi Mike,

When the bible speaks of everyone in his own order – BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER: a firstfruit Anointed; afterwards they that are Christ’s at His appearing, then… the End. It seems this Isa 3 separate events. 1. Christ the first, 2. Those that are in Christ, 3. The End. Where is the “everyone” in ‘everyone in his own order’? Everyone is not in the first event and everyone is not in the second event, and there is no other event, but — The End. I can imagine “the end” explained as bringing up the end as in the end of a procession or parade, but why not explain as such? It just says the End… Please Explain.

Thanks,

M____

Hi M____,

It is good to hear from you again. You are exactly right about the three- phase completion of God’s work. 1) Christ, the firstfruit, 2) They that are Christ’s at His coming, and 3) then comes the end.

Israel was given this outline in God’s yearly feasts.”Three times in the year shall all your males appear before me…” There were really seven different annual holy days but they were all within these “Three times in the year…” that Israel was commanded to observe. Those three times were first, the passover and the days of unleavened bread. This was when the “sheaf of the firstfruits,” the “wave sheaf of the barley harvest,” was offered. Barley matures long before the wheat. So Christ matured long before any who are also called “a kind of firstfruits.” In fact the very next feast is called “the feast of firstfruits,” but it was fifty days after the barley harvest. So it is also know as Pentecost meaning ‘count fifty.’ But Pentecost is “the feast of firstfruits” because the church was established on Pentecost, and the “few chosen,” the “elect” who are chosen out of that church, are “a kind of firstfruits.” They are called “firstfruits” because they are the instruments through which the fall harvest which follows closely behind the “Feast of Trumpets” and the “Day of Atonement will be enacted.” This great fall harvest is called “The feast of Tabernacles.”

But what very few know, and what even fewer believe, is that this great final harvest of souls is also called “ The Feast of Ingatherings.” It is the time when God “gathers in” “all in Adam.” This is not, in it’s final fulfillment, the kingdom era, known in prophecy as “the kingdom of God.” The 1000 year reign of Christ is about as much the final fulfillment of “The Feast of Ingatherings” as Christ’s appearance in the flesh was the final fulfillment of God’s Kingdom on this earth. Of course Christ’s coming in the flesh did establish the kingdom of God “within you.” But the “kingdom of God within you” is not the final fulfillment of that kingdom on this earth. Just as Christ had to come in an outward physical form before he could come “inwardly” “in spirit” in His Chosen, His elect, His firstfruit kingdom, so must the millennial kingdom, an outward physical subjugation of the nations of the entire world, precede the “inward,” the “in spirit” conversion of the nations of the entire world.

Here are some scriptures to substantiate all the statements made above:

Exo 23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exo 23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exo 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in [ all] thy labours out of the field.
Exo 23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Lev 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Lev 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Though very few Christians are aware of it, Christ makes it plain that not one person was converted in His entire physical existence on this earth. Only days before his apprehension by the chief priests and elders of Israel, Christ said this to His chief apostle:

Luk 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Luk 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [ to have] you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Luk 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

The same will be true of the untried and untested inhabitants of this earth during the millennium. Satan will be “in prison” unable to try and test those who live here at that time. Consequently, just as Christ’s physical presence on earth did not produce one single convert, neither will His physical presence during the millennium. Both Christ and His elect ‘body,’ though spirit, will appear as physical bodies during the 1000 year reign. This faithless period know as the millennium is typified by the lack of faith of every one of Christ’s disciples immediately after His resurrection. Thomas was not the exception. He was simply the last to see Christ in His physical body. So, just as His kingdom was shortly established within his saints upon His resurrection, so will it be in the rest of the world after their resurrection at the “great white throne judgment.”

In other words, the Truth is that God’s kingdom will only be established after the flesh of Christ is recognized as the veil which keeps us separated from God:

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Not one Christan in 100 is aware of this truth. The flesh simply cannot see “the things of the spirit.” Christ Himself tells us:

Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Even the flesh of Christ was unfit to inherit the kingdom of God. According to Heb 10:19-20, it was the flesh of Christ that was keeping us from entering into the very presence of the Father:

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood [ even the flesh of Christ] cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Christ’s flesh did not see corruption because He was “given the spirit without measure” from His very birth. On top of that fact, His flesh was resurrected before it had time to decay away. Had it not been resurrected, Christ’s dead body would have decayed away into the dust from which it was taken, but it was resurrected and did not see corruption.

Act 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

The word ‘suffer’ is actually ‘given.’ It was not ‘given’ to Christ to see corruption, even though He lived in corruptible flesh. So God had to perform the miracle of resurrecting Christ’s body before it corrupted away into the dust. It was never given to Christ to see corruption.

But this is not true of anyone else. We have all seen corruption in both our spirits and in our bodies. But “the end of our faith is the salvation of our souls.”

1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

The “end of our faith” is the beginning of our salvation. That word “end” there in 1Pe 1:9 is the exact same Greek word used by Paul in 1Co 15, that you are asking about:

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end [ Gk.- telos – the end product, the result, the outcome], when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

“The end” here is the beginning of salvation for the harvest in the “end of the year.” It is the “fall harvest,” it is the “feast of ingatherings” of “all [ who are] in Adam.” Here are the next two verses after the one you asked about:

1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

As long as one person is dead, death has not yet been “destroyed.”

I hope this has answered your question as to what the word “end’ means.

Mike