2Ki 14:19-29  “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God”

[Study Aired December 22, 2022]

2Ki 14:19  Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2Ki 14:20  And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2Ki 14:21  And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2Ki 14:22  He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2Ki 14:23  In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
2Ki 14:24  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2Ki 14:25  He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
2Ki 14:26  For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
2Ki 14:27  And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
2Ki 14:28  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 
2Ki 14:29  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

The LORD has a controversy (Jer 25:31) with the nations within us, and all the nations of the world without, that will not be resolved until all flesh is destroyed.

Jer 25:31  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy^H7379 with the nations, he will plead^{H8199 = judge} with all flesh; he will give them [all flesh] that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. [Heb 4:12] 

That destruction of flesh is the good news of the gospel that we naturally cannot receive, as God seeks an occasion against all flesh that cannot inherit the kingdom of God, a kingdom that will be received, each man in his order by putting off the flesh (1Co 15:22-24).

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, 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. 

For God’s elect that occasion is happening right now with judgment upon us that causes us to come to worship our Father in spirit and in truth (Joh 4:23) as a result of the gift of the grace through faith given to us (Eph 2:8) so we can go on to perfection on the third day (Luk 13:32).

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

I mention all this because of the opening verse of the study which discusses the “conspiracy^H7195 against him in Jerusalem” (2Ki 14:19), him being king Amaziah who represents our flesh which cannot inherit the kingdom of God. God conspires against our flesh, and that is the controversy the world has been blinded to not see unfolding. The unfolding started from the creation of Adam as the marred vessel that was created to be destroyed and made anew in the Potter’s hand (Jer 18:4, Jer 22:29, Joh 10:28-29). 

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Joh 10:28  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

For further evidence of what the carnal fleshly mind in Adam thinks of himself, we see where Amaziah flees to avoid judgment which is in a place that means ‘invincible’, Lachish^H3923, as opposed to humbly going to the mount from whence comes our help, where we are judged and acknowledge that there is no good thing within us, and that we constantly need Christ’s hand in our life to guide us (Psa 121:1-2, Joh 6:44, Luk 18:19, Rom 8:14).

2Ki 14:19  Now they made a conspiracy^{H7195=treason} against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish^H3923; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

H3923  lâkı̂ysh  Lachish = “invincible”(BDB)

1) a city lying south of Jerusalem on the borders of Simeon and which belonged to the Amorites until conquered by Joshua and allotted to Judah

Psa 121:1  A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 
Psa 121:2  My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Luk 18:19  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

2Ki 14:19  Now they made a conspiracyH7195 against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish^H3923; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 

All the forces of the world around us are for our sakes (2Co 4:15), and because God is able to work all things according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11), we can now understand how it is possible that these verses below that use the phrase “all things” apply to each one of us individually who know, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28). 

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

“All things” become the reality of our existence “on that day” (Joh 14:20) as we grow in our conviction of what God can do in the body of Christ which is the temple of God (Rom 8:36-39, Rom 8:9, 1Co 3:16) . “All things” includes the death of our old man, the losing of our life which we initially think is invincible (Lachish^H3923) only to find out later that we must lose that life (Rom 6:11) in order to become a new creation that is formed in Christ (Mat 10:39). 

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

2Ki 14:20  And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

The old man, typified by Amaziah, is buried in Jerusalem below and brought to that place of rest by horses, strong beasts of the earth which remind us that like king David and Amaziah, they are going to their graves with their beastly nature still intact to be buried “with his fathers in the city of David“. The dead are still burying the dead to this day, and each life, as with all the kings of old, represents stages of the old and new man that by God’s mercy we come to see within ourselves today (Act 2:29-33). Not to belabor the point, but we are told that David is not just dead, but “dead and buried“, meaning he is in the earth, earth, earth of Jeremiah 22:29 yet to spiritually hear the voice of the Lord in the second resurrection (Joh 5:28-29, first resurrection separated by the thousand year reign of the saints, Rev 20:5-6).

Act 2:29  Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Act 2:30  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 
Act 2:31  He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 
Act 2:32  This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 
Act 2:33  Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

2Ki 14:21  And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 
2Ki 14:22  He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 

In 2 Kings 15:1-6 we learn what this son of Amaziah, whose name was Azariah, was up to, as he reigned for [52] years “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.” Those actions brought God’s wrath upon him, “And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several [separate] house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.”

2Ki 15:1  In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 
2Ki 15:2  Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. 
2Ki 15:3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; 
2Ki 15:4  Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2Ki 15:5  And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
2Ki 15:6  And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Two things to note:  Jeroboam king of Israel was in his 27th year of reigning when Azariah began to reign, telling us that this king Azariah was going to witness [2] the judgment of the Lord completely [7] in his life and not overcome: “he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several [separate] house.” The “several house” represents how sin separates us from the body of Christ, which is what happened to the life of king Azariah whose son ended up being “over the house, judging the people of the land” of Judah. 

The life of Azariah produced bad fruit. represented by his building of Elath^H359 that he restored to Judah. “He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.” Based on all that we read about the life of Azariah and what he ended up doing to the nation of Judah, it’s clear that this 16 year old king was not fit to reign and only used his rulership as an occasion for his flesh (Gal 5:13). Starting to rule at 16 in the negative use of that number reveals that although God’s judgment was upon him, [1] his flesh, represented by the number [6], remained leprous and of no use to those around him from whom he was separated because of his natural condition of leprosy that represented his spiritually corrupt heart. As always we are reminded that this is written for our admonition to remind us that unless we are washed by the blood of Christ, which takes away our sinful condition represented by leprosy, we would remain in the bondage that the whole world is in (Joh 8:36, 1Jn 5:19).

H359‘êylôth / ‘êylath   BDB Definition:
Elath or Eloth = “grove of lofty trees”
1) a port on the north-east arm of the Red Sea
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H352

Gal 5:13  For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Joh 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 

1Jn 5:19  And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. [sinful leprous flesh]

2Ki 14:23  In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years. 
2Ki 14:24  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2Ki 14:25  He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.

Now God’s word shifts back to Amaziah the father of Azariah to remind us of where these generational sins of Azariah are coming from, and what exactly set the stage for his heart to be as wicked as it was. What must be done to correct this spirit is also given to us in the numbers mentioned in verse 23: “the fifteenth year of Amaziah” and “forty and one years“, both numbers pointing to grace [5], which in the case with Amaziah’s life was greasy grace and not accompanied with life changing correction from the Lord. Just to be clear it is “Jeroboam the son of Joash“ the king of Israel who begins to reign in Samaria for forty-one years, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord by following the sinful ways of “Jeroboam the son of Nebat“. That comparative was made to remind us that grace is not grace when it is accompanied with a lascivious spirit that says ‘let us sin that grace may abound’ (Rom 6:1). 

Rom 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

All of these events remind God’s elect that it is only for the sake of our election (1Jn 2:20, Rom 11:5), but for the grace of God go we, as those generational sins are cut off as we become the generation that is judged by God and as such can live out the rest of our lives in obedience to our Lord, which is what that judgment will continue to produce (Exo 34:7, Rom 5:12, Mat 24:34, 1Pe 4:1-2, Tit 2:11-12).

1Jn 2:20  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Exo 34:7  Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Rom 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 

Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. [1Jn 2:15-17]

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 
1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 
Tit 2:12  Teaching^G3811 us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth^G3811, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

G3811 paideuō pahee-dyoo’-o

From G3816; to train up a child, that is, educate, or (by implication) discipline (by punishment): – chasten (-ise), instruct, learn, teach.

Total KJV occurrences: 13

What flesh naturally does is restore evil and not tear it down, and that is exactly what God causes us to do symbolized by these words, “He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel“, leaving us to say in our carnal reasoning why Lord, why are you causing me to err and restoring sin in my life, causing me to err (Rom 9:20, Isa 63:17).

Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

God reveals this life-long struggle of flesh against spirit and spirit against flesh (Gal 5:16-17, Rom 7:19-23) through the prophets who typify the patience and faith of the saints which is needed to overcome and endure unto the end of this life, in which we are told we will scarcely be saved (Jas 4:12, Rev 14:12, 1Pe 4:17-18).

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 
Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Jas 4:12  There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 

Jonah was such a prophet who had to endure patiently as we read “which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher” and his life is symbolic of the life-long struggle we have with sinful flesh that needs to go through much tribulation (Act 14:22) in order to end up in Nineveh as a true witness of God (Jon 2:10, Jon 2:3). 

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Jon 2:10  And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Jon 3:3  So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

Even still, the end of the book does not leave us with a clear understanding of what was going to happen to Jonah. What we are being instructed by those actions is to not take anything for granted (1Co 10:12), and also to be encouraged that you have been apprehended by the Lord (Php 3:11-13) (symbolized by Jonah in the great fish), and we are to continually be brought back to remembrance that it is only because of the judgment in our ‘earth, earth, earth’ that we can overcome and have boldness at this time (Jer 22:29, 1Jn 4:17) symbolized by Jonah’s three days in the great fish, which symbolizes Christ’s three days in the heart of our earth (Mat 12:40), where we are being judged today and brought to perfection on the third day (Luk 13:32).

Php 3:11  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 
Php 3:12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 
Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

1Co 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 

Jer 22:29  O [1] earth, [2] earth, [3] earth, hear the word of the LORD.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

2Ki 14:26  For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. 
2Ki 14:27  And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

In the positive sense of being restored, we are brought back to the point of how all things are for our sakes and how God knows all the conditions on the face of the earth and the heart and intention of every human who has ever lived, because He is working it all according to the counsel of His own sovereign will. The “LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel” means just that, he knows the heart of man that it is deceitful and desperately wicked, making us “very bitter“. It takes the life of Christ within us who is our “helper” (Mat 20:28, Christ in us makes us helpers of each other’s joy, 2Co 1:24) to take away the bitterness that would naturally just grow and overtake us except for the gifted grace-through-faith process to whichGod’s elect have been blessed to be called (Eph 2:8).

Mat 20:28  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

2Co 1:24  Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

All men will be saved, all the world, symbolized by Israel, “And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven“. Not physically saved indefinitely “by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash” (Gen 6:3), but yes, preserved for God’s purpose of ultimately reserving the rest of humanity to be judged in the great white throne judgment. One of the main reasons God physically preserves humanity from total annihilation prior to the thousand-year reign of the saints is to reveal the natural saving of humanity before the spiritual, and to leave a witness of how God seeks an occasion against flesh and blood that cannot inherit the kingdom of God (Mat 24:22, Rom 1:20). So the elect will save the world from total physical destruction at first and then save all of Israel, which symbolizes the whole world, from spiritual destruction in the lake of fire “the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven” (1Co 15:22, Rev 20:11).

Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 

2Ki 14:28  Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 
2Ki 14:29  And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

It all sounds just sounds like great progress, Jeroboam warred and recovered Damascus^H1834 [“silent is the sackcloth weaver”] and Hamath^H2574 [“fortress”], but we know this represents the preservation of the flesh which is happening to the glory of God, knowing that overall arching principle in God’s word that states “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” which cannot inherit the kingdom of God (Gen 6:3).

Gen 6:3  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

In the end, “Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.” He is no different than David and all the other kings good and bad who have come and gone, in that none of their flesh will inherit the kingdom of God (1Co 15:50). However, they will serve us in their unbelief and give us great hope of what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has been setting out to do all along from the foundation of the world (1Pe 1:12, 1Co 10:11, 1Co 15:22).

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: [Gen 6:3] and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die [Gen 6:3], even so in Christ shall all be made alive. [1Jn 2:2, 1Ti 4:10]