For the world to come, of which I am speaking, was not put under the control of angels.
It is new heavens and a new earth that we expect, as He has promised, and in them dwells righteousness.
Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."
who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away —
This gospel of the Reign shall be preached all over the wide world as a testimony to all the Gentiles, and then the end will come.
(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).