If Jesus Christ Is Fully God, Then How Does He Hand the Kingdom Over to His Father After the End as 1 Corinthians 15:24 States?
1) Direct Answer
Jesus is fully God revealed in flesh, and He also took a real human office as the Son. In 1 Corinthians 15:24, the “handing over” is the Son’s mediatorial reign finishing and being presented back to God the Father—the Eternal Spirit—so that God may be all in all. It’s not one God handing a kingdom to another God; it is one God completing His work through the Son and returning everything under the headship of the Eternal Spirit.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father… For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet… And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject… that God may be all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:24–28). Notice the words “till” and “then.” The Son reigns till the last enemy is destroyed, then subjects Himself—that shows the mediatorial office concluding.
- “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself” (2 Corinthians 5:19). God—the Father, the Eternal Spirit—worked in and through the man Christ Jesus to redeem.
- “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). The mediatorship is tied to His Sonship as Man.
- “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). He is fully God in His deity, yet He took a body to fulfill redemption.
- “The holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35). Sonship had a beginning in the incarnation—God taking the office of Son.
- “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). Not two Gods—one God revealed.
- “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (Revelation 3:21). One throne, one God, revealed in different relations.
- And at the end: “the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Revelation 22:1–3)—not two thrones, but one rule; God and the Lamb are not two beings, but one God known by His redemptive title.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Father is God as Spirit; Son is God in the body He took to redeem. The same one God working in two relationships: above us as Father, with us in the Son, and now in us as the Holy Spirit.
- As God, He is the Giver; as Man (the Son), He is the Mediator who receives the kingdom and then presents it back. When the work is complete, there is no more need for a mediator. That’s what “that God may be all in all” means—the mediatorial office yields to the direct, unveiled rule of the Eternal Spirit.
- If this were two co-equal divine persons, why does the Scripture say the Son becomes subject at the end? God cannot be less than God. The Son’s subjection speaks of the role He took as Man to finish redemption; once finished, the office is brought under the Eternal Spirit, not one God yielding to another.
4) Reinforcing Statement
You see, it’s not three Gods, and it’s not a second person. It is one God who was manifested in flesh to redeem, reigning as the Son until every enemy is put under His feet, then presenting the finished kingdom back to the Father, so that the same one God may be all in all forever. That’s the mystery—and the Bible makes it clear.
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