IV.  Well, what is the second of their great irresistible passages?  “He must reign,” 1 Cor. xv. 35. till such and such a time…and “be received by heaven until the time of restitution,” Acts iii. 21. and “have the seat at the Right Hand until the overthrow of His enemies.” Ps. cx. 1.  But after this?  Must He cease to be King, or be removed from Heaven?  Why, who shall make Him cease, or for what cause?  What a bold and very anarchical interpreter you are; and yet you have heard that Of His Kingdom there shall be no end. Luke i. 33.  Cf. Nic. Creed.  Your mistake arises from not understanding that Until is not always exclusive of that which comes after, but asserts up to that time, without denying what comes after it.  To take a single instance—how else would you understand, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world?” Matt. xxviii. 20.  Does it mean that He will no longer be so afterwards.  And for what reason?  But this is not the only cause of your error; you also fail to distinguish between the things that are signified.  He is said to reign in one sense as the Almighty King, both of the willing and the unwilling; but in another as producing in us submission, and placing us under His Kingship as willingly acknowledging His Sovereignty.  Of His Kingdom, considered in the former sense, there shall be no end.  But in the second sense, what end will there be?  His taking us as His servants, on our entrance into a state of salvation.  For what need is there to Work Submission in us when we have already submitted?  After which He arises to judge the earth, and to separate the saved from the lost.  After that He is to stand as God in the midst of gods, Ps. lxxxii. 1. that is, of the saved, distinguishing and deciding of what honour and of what mansion each is worthy.