Like Revelation says, we have two powers in heaven. We have God Himself, and we have the Son who is Jesus, the man sent by God and raised by God from the dead, alive forever. This God is soon to be all in all when Jesus subjects himself to God forever, together with everyone God will put under him. God who is loving to many is seeking to save many before that day. This Jesus is the one made Lord by God, such that everything in Nature functions by the power of Jesus’ name. He is the Christ, anointed by God for this powerful supremacy in which ultimately only the Father Himself will not be made subject to him. All else, other than God, the Father Himself, will be made subject to him by God. Jesus in turn will subject himself to the Father forever. There is not a rivalry of power. God would not have raised Jesus to live forever if Jesus were a rival. Jesus shows the teachings of the Father forever lived out by him, keeping him in fellowship and unity with the Father. His obedience was perfected in his earthly life, culminating in his living out the Father’s will even in his crucifixion. He died for you. So God receives him to His right hand, to ultimately share His throne forever. God has filled Jesus with joy beyond our joy. He, the man Jesus, represents us with God when he appears before God to intercede for us. Belief in this Jesus and confession of him, forever holding to his teachings, is the path to our salvation by him. Praise be to the Father who sent him and raised him from the dead to live firever and become judge over all. He is coming soon, with his faithful ones with him. He will bring these to immortal eternal life. Stay in his teachings and thus stay in fellowship with him and with God, you who believe in him, whoever you are, whatever your background and heritage.
