diff --git a/lib/liquid/tags/case.rb b/lib/liquid/tags/case.rb
index 43d4b3b..ccd69bd 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/tags/case.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/tags/case.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ module Liquid
     def parse(tokens)
       body = case_body = new_body
       body = @blocks.last.attachment while parse_body(body, tokens)
-      @blocks.each do |condition|
+      @blocks.reverse_each do |condition|
         body = condition.attachment
         unless body.frozen?
           body.remove_blank_strings if blank?
diff --git a/lib/liquid/tags/for.rb b/lib/liquid/tags/for.rb
index 2c80a58..328ba02 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/tags/for.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/tags/for.rb
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ module Liquid
         parse_body(@else_block, tokens)
       end
       if blank?
-        @for_block.remove_blank_strings
         @else_block&.remove_blank_strings
+        @for_block.remove_blank_strings
       end
-      @for_block.freeze
       @else_block&.freeze
+      @for_block.freeze
     end
 
     def nodelist
diff --git a/lib/liquid/tags/if.rb b/lib/liquid/tags/if.rb
index b4a680a..44aea61 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/tags/if.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/tags/if.rb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ module Liquid
     def parse(tokens)
       while parse_body(@blocks.last.attachment, tokens)
       end
-      @blocks.each do |block|
+      @blocks.reverse_each do |block|
         block.attachment.remove_blank_strings if blank?
         block.attachment.freeze
       end
diff --git a/lib/liquid/template.rb b/lib/liquid/template.rb
index 276cdbf..adcf6bd 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/template.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/template.rb
@@ -106,16 +106,8 @@ module Liquid
     # Parse source code.
     # Returns self for easy chaining
     def parse(source, options = {})
-      if (profiling = options[:profile])
-        raise "Profiler not loaded, require 'liquid/profiler' first" unless defined?(Liquid::Profiler)
-      end
-
-      @options      = options
-      @profiling    = profiling
-      @line_numbers = options[:line_numbers] || profiling
-      parse_context = options.is_a?(ParseContext) ? options : ParseContext.new(options)
+      parse_context = configure_options(options)
       @root         = Document.parse(tokenize(source), parse_context)
-      @warnings     = parse_context.warnings
       self
     end
 
@@ -218,6 +210,19 @@ module Liquid
 
     private
 
+    def configure_options(options)
+      if (profiling = options[:profile])
+        raise "Profiler not loaded, require 'liquid/profiler' first" unless defined?(Liquid::Profiler)
+      end
+
+      @options      = options
+      @profiling    = profiling
+      @line_numbers = options[:line_numbers] || @profiling
+      parse_context = options.is_a?(ParseContext) ? options : ParseContext.new(options)
+      @warnings     = parse_context.warnings
+      parse_context
+    end
+
     def tokenize(source)
       Tokenizer.new(source, @line_numbers)
     end