Overcoming Believers rule the earth
While writing to church at Thyatira in Rev 2:26-27, we read “And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him I will give authority over the nations: And he shall rule with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also received of my Father”.
“Angels in heaven sing a new song, saying, worthy are you to take the scroll, and open the seals, for you were slain, by your blood you ransomed people for God, from every tribe, language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on earth” Rev 5:9-10.
When the kingdom of the world become the kingdom of our Lord as mentioned in Rev 11:15, the overcoming believers also share ruling along with their Lord. “If we endure, we shall also reign with him” 2 Tim 2:12. The lost position of man in Genesis 3 will be restored again to exercise dominion on the earth along with our glorified Saviour Jesus Christ.
A) Overcoming believers judge the world
“Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you …” 1 Cor 6:2. When the believers function in their earthly life according to the wisdom of God, He prepares them to understand his heart to see how the things ought to be in the lives of the people.
Saints will judge on this light because they lived their own life in the ‘light of God’. It is one of the blessings for every saint who makes the Lord his light.
Glorified Lord along with overcoming believers rule the heavens and the earth
God the father has made known the mystery of His will to us. God’s will is to unite the authority of heaven and earth under one, that is, his Son Jesus Christ.
“Unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in heavens; and the things upon the earth; in him I say, In whom also we were made a heritage having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will” Ephesians 1:10-11.
When Lord takes charge of his future kingdom in the heavens and the earth, the overcoming believers will also be with him in ruling. Satan and his angels will be replaced by the Lord and the overcoming believers.
This is the will of the Heavenly father, and it will be realized in due time.
In another place we read, “For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak. For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one:..” Heb 2:5, 10, 11.
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