3936 — Christ and His Coming Kingdom
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The text is quite plain of itself. It simply states that when our Lord had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, He sat down on the right hand of God. That is, He then became kingly Priest, there waiting, expecting, until that time when the work should be done, when all who would accept the grace of God had accepted it, and all others, who would not do it, but who wholly identified themselves with sin, would be brought into subjection and destroyed. This, in brief, is the meaning of the text. It is stated a little more fully, perhaps, in 1 Cor. 15:24-28: "Then cometh the end [that is, the end of Christ's ministry], when He [Christ] shall deliver up the kingdom [His reign as priest] to God, even the Father; when He [the Father] shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He [Christ] must reign [as priest at the right hand of God], till He [the Father] hath put all His enemies under His [Christ's] feet. The last enemy that shall be abolished is death. For, He [the Father] put all things in subjection under His [Christ's] feet. But when He saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that He [the Father] is excepted who did subject all things unto Him. And when all things have been subjected unto Him [Christ], then shall the Son also Himself be subjected to Him [the Father] that did subject all things unto Him [Christ], that God may be all in all." When the work of Christ's priesthood shall be over, then He will take His own throne, and reign forever, in a kingdom in which there shall be no enemies. Rev. 3:21.