JEAN'S BIBLE STUDY

Chapter 8

Transfer of Power

"Then the end comes, when he [Jesus] will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all." -- 1Cor 15,24-28

Ever since the Father raised His Son from the dead, Jesus has been ruling and reigning on the earth with the gospel message through the Spirit, choosing from the world those who would be His Father’s worshippers. Once the Great Tribulation has run its course, once the Seals, the Trumpets and the Bowls of God’s judgment have been dispensed on the world of the ungodly, once the Millennium is instituted and concludes, and once death and Hades gave up its inhabitants and stood before Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment, and He passed judgment on all those in attendance, and they were cast into the Lake of Fire, so that the rebellion has been completely extinguished, and all sin and wickedness and those who participated in disobedience and unbelief found their place in the abyss of eternal torment, then Jesus will hand over the Kingdom of the saints to our God the Father. Jesus will give up the position of absolute authority and willingly come under subjection to the Father, though He will forever remain our king and Great Shepherd, yet all power and authority will have been returned to the Father, and from that time-on it will remain the Father’s kingdom. Jesus will still reign as king over His people, and He will also reign over the people whom God will create after us, but He will no longer be the one making the decisions. Jesus will remain on His throne at the right-hand of the Father, but He will no longer orchestrate the events that take place or determine what happens next.

Remember in the gospel of John, Jesus spoke incessantly about His Father being in charge, but after the resurrection Jesus said to His disciples, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth” (Mat 28-18). This will remain true until Jesus has put all His enemies under His feet. After that the mandates, instructions, decrees and overall plans for the next creation will be in the hands of the Father, and He will continue making things through His Son. Since we are in Christ, He will also make the new creation (who we are) through us. All the plans and ideas and designs will originate from God the Father, and He will disclose His mind to His Son, and Christ will disclose the mind of the Father to us, and when we are all in agreement, Jesus will speak the new creation into existence, and the ideas of the new creation in the mind of the saints will be appended to the creation, and God will make worlds through Christ that the saints have imagined, and we will carry out the Father’s will until the end of eternity. 

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