Glorified Son of Man Jesus Christ’s Present Position
Lord Jesus Christ who is the Son of God became the Son of man. He lived on earth without any sin, died on the cross for our propitiation, buried and rose again on the third day. He defeated the power of death through His resurrection. He made an open show of the defeated foe.
Colossians 2:15 says, “Having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
Man lost the authority and came into the subjection of the principalities and powers. But triumphant Lord has defeated the enemy and reversed the order of the things. He opened the new and living way for us to live an overcoming life through the newness of resurrection life in our Lord.
“Wherefore also God highly exalted him, gave unto him the name which is above every name; That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father” Philippians 2:9-11.
Future position of the Lord’s in Heaven and earth
This position is not yet commissioned, though it is decreed to be this way. As we read in Hebrews 2:8, “Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject unto him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him”.
A) Heavenly authority transferred to the Lord.
The triumphant Lord will possess all the kingdoms of this world soon. The enemy who is now in the heavenly places will be cast out from the heavenly places along with his angels who follow him.
“And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So, the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God Day and night, has been cast down” Revelation 12:7-10.
There will not be any place for the devil and his angels in heaven anymore. The authority in the heavenly places is transferred to our Lord after the devil and his angels are cast down to the earth.
As Paul writes in Hebrews 1:6 “And when he again bring in the firstborn into the world he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him”. We see this picture also in Revelation chapters 4 and 5. Jesus Christ receives this position as the Son of man not as the Son of God.
B) Earthly authority inherited by the Lord
Series of events starts unfolding when the Lord opens the seals, beginning from the chapter 4 of the Revelation. The angel sounds the last trumpet just before the Lord appears on earth (1 Corinthians 15:52, 1Thess 4:16);
and it says, “And the seventh angel sounded: and there followed a great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: he shall reign for ever and ever” Rev 11:15.
At this point happens the transfer of the authority to our Lord over the things in heaven and upon the earth. Lord will appear in glory to defeat the enemy and establish His kingdom on earth. “Unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth; in him, I say” Ephesians 1;10. Then the prayer of Lord, which he taught in Matthew 6, “let Thy kingdom come”, finally arrives in manifestation.
Thus, God establishes the dominion of heavens on earth (Job 38:33).
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