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                                    (2) \each one of them.\(3) \[other languages] as the Spirit gave them utterances.\i. And the apostle Peter, who had been given \keynote address of that beginning day, in the city of Jerusalem, where their first labors would be for an extended period of time. On that day \from that day\New King James Version). So, on the Pentecost day the \\ of heaven\further points relevant to our present study.j. In his sermon, the apostle Peter declared that Christ had been \exalted to the right hand of God in heaven; that he had received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, responsible for the miraculous manifestations seen and heard that day; and that he would \Jesus having been made \In 1 Corinthians 15:24-28, the apostle Paul later expanded on the part we have underscored {and that he would \feet}, as follows \itself, and therefore of the earthly phase of thekingdom of heaven, but not of the kingdom itself. For the latter is eternal and its glorious heavenly phase will then be entered by its faithful citizens, per 2 Peter 1:11; cf. Matthew 25:31-46; Acts 14:21-22; 2 Timothy 4:18], when he shall deliver up thekingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all [opposing] rule and authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be abolished is death [by the universal resurrection of the dead (Revelation 20:13-20) and the transforming of the bodies of living saints unto incorruptible and immortal ones (1 Corinthians 15:50 -57)]. %u2026 And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all\\ authority %u2026 in heaven and on earth\powers being made subject unto him\That does not mean Christ will no longer reign in any sense, for \Lamb [Christ] shall be therein [that is, in the %u2018holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven%u2019 to the %u2018new earth%u2019]: and his servants shall serve him; %u2026 and they shall reign for ever and ever\Timothy 2:12). Though he will still be co-regent with the Father as he is now (Revelation 3:21), his reign will not be distinguished then as now by the assigned role of conquering all enemies of the divine rule %u2013that assignment having then already been accomplished.
                                
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