We will notice one more passage in the context, which may be urged as an objection.  “Behold I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.”  The mystery, here mentioned, refers to the change of those, who should be found alive at the coming of Christ in his kingdom, produced by the full revelation and establishment of that doctrine, which proclaims the immortal resurrection of all mankind by being made alive in Christ.  It is the fulfillment of the following scriptures—­Eph. i 9,10—­“Having made known unto us the mystery of his will—­that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him.”  This mystery was then finished in the full revelation of his will to the doubting christians, whom Paul addresses in the context.  This is evident from Rev. x:7—­“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”  And that he began his reign when the mystery was finished is certain from Rev. xi. 15—­And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, “and he shall reign forever and ever.”  Here we perceive that this mystery of God’s will was to be finished at the sound of the seventh or last trump, which will is, to gather or make alive all things in Christ.  And at this time he was to receive his kingdom and reign forever and ever. "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed," has reference to those persecuted christians, who were not to “taste of death till they saw the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Phil. iii:20, 2l—­“For our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”  That this passage has reference to changing our natural into immortal bodies at the resurrection, I see not a shadow of evidence to prove, either in established in their final and blissful condition the passage itself, nor in the context.  The context we have already noticed by pointing out the resurrection to which Paul desired to attain.  Chap. i:6—­“He, that hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Chap. iv:5—­“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.”  “The day of Jesus Christ” and “the Lord is at hand” refer to his coming at the end of the Jewish age, and not to a resurrection at the end of time.