WHEN WILL JESUS
SIT ON THE THRONE?
?
MF Blume
Many Believers
long for the day when Jesus Christ shall return and rule and reign over all
the Earth. However, according to Scriptures, Jesus is and has been ruling
over all the Earth ever since His resurrection! It seems that much
of prophecy, even the points regarding His present dominion over all the
Earth, have been washed down to some future time, when all the while they
have been true for thousands of years.
Hebrews 10:12-13
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies
be made his footstool.
The Book of Hebrews teaches
us that Christ sat down once and for all after the sacrifice of the cross,
having finished any work that was necessary to be accomplished. And
after that seating, we read that His finished work so complete that He sits
expecting the ramifications of that work to eventually put all enemies beneath
His footstool. And He is going to continue to sit on this throne until
a certain point, according to additional words of Paul.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28
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 he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet
. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things
under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest
that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things
shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto
him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Notice that Paul spoke of
the same issue as is found in Hebrews 10. Paul wrote saying that Jesus
Christ is ruling from His throne. God put all things beneath the Son
of God's feet. And He is seated until all enemies are made His footstool.
Paul informs us that this will occur at which time the Son will then
relinquish all authority and rule over to the Father.
This note of reigning
until all enemies are beneath Him, upon which time the Son will then relinquish
all power to the Father is absolutely absent from the teachings of the futurists
who claim Christ has not even begun to rule yet! They contend that if
He is ruling, then why is there so much unrest and warfare occurring in the
world. But if one would only read these scriptures, one would recognize
that His ruling is
indeed presently real, but is a reign that gradually sees all come into subjection
to Him. He
is not going to begin to rule when all has been made subject to Him, but the
Bible explicitly teaches that He is ruling until all things are subjected
to Him.
HE MUST REIGN TILL HE HATH PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET.
The reason all things
are being subjected to Him gradually is the finished work He accomplished
on the cross 2000 years ago. That one work of Calvary gave such a fell
swoop of conquest that He has been sitting on the throne ever since that day
expecting the repercussions of that single work to eventually carry through
thousands of years until no enemy is left standing. That is one powerful
work! Praise God!
Paul taught elsewhere
that Christ rules over all right now.
Ephesians 1:20-23
Which
he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him
at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality,
and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only
in this world , but also in that which is to come: And hath put all
things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the
church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Christ is presently seated
over all things. And according to Hebrews and 1 Corinthians, this means
that everything is gradually being subdued to Him as time passes. Finally
death is going to be abolished, and its not going to be because Christ is
going to do something in our future to accomplish that. Its going to
be because of the single work of the cross that occurred 2000 years ago!
Does it make sense
to say that Christ rules all when yet all things are not subdued to Him? Yes,
if you consider the following scriptures:
Romans 5:20
...But where
sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Christ's good is always
greater than evil. Life is stronger than death, as proven by Christ's
resurrection. Jesus holds the keys of death and hell.
Revelation 1:18
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,
Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
His rule is one of
being seated right now, and sitting there watching all things become His
footstool as the reverberations from the cross ripple through time and bring
down every enemy below Him. Essentially He is seated right now over
it all. Practically, all things are gradually coming beneath Him.
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am
come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jesus' life more
abundantly overpowers the death and destruction of the thief. Where
does the Bible say He is yet to come and accomplish a work in order to rule?
The work is done. He is seated right now on the throne and is
not going to do one more work to see all things subjected to Himself. The
work is done! Jesus IS Lord!
Jesus is not
going to sit on a throne one day, He has been seated on the throne for the
last 2000 years.
HE MUST REIGN TILL HE HATH PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET.