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 throughout the age of grace 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 age of grace has reached its end and the Great Tribulation has run its course, and once the Millennium concludes, and once death and Hades has given up its inhabitants and stood before Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment and Christ passed judgment on all in attendance, and once they were cast into the Lake of Fire, the rebellion finally extinguished, Jesus will then hand over the Kingdom of the saints to our God the Father. Jesus will give up the position of power and authority over all mankind to the Father and willingly come under subjection to His absolute authority, which Satan would have never done. Christ will forever remain our king and our Great Shepherd, yet all power and authority will have been returned to the Father. From that time-on it will remain the Father’s kingdom. Jesus will still reign as king over His people, and He will reign over the people whom God will create after us, but He will no longer be the one in authority making the decisions. Jesus will remain on His throne at the right-hand of the Father, but He will no longer be the Decision Maker or orchestrate the events that take place or determine what should happen.

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 remained true until Jesus put all His enemies under His feet. After that, mandates, instructions, decrees and overall plans for the events throughout eternity will be in the hands of the Father. One thing that remained true in eternity past, remains presently true, and will remain true in eternity future, is that the Father does everything through His Son. The only real thing that changed is that Jesus became human. Since we are in Christ, He will make the new creation through us, for Paul said that we are the first fruits of the new creation (Rom 8,19-23). 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 His mind to us, and when we are all in agreement, Jesus will speak the new creation into existence, and the saint's collective vision of the new creation that God placed in their hearts will come to fruition. The Father will make worlds through Christ that the saints have imagined, and we will carry out His will, so that everything the Father wanted to do will manifest through His people. 

Jesus said, “The Father is greater than I” (Jn 14-28). He also said, “For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great” (Lk 9-48). Putting these together it says that the Father has more authority than the son, but the Son is a greater servant, and the net result is equality. The passage above shows the Father's sovereign authority over His creation with all things subjected to Him. Jesus has a finite number of people in the Church, while the Father has an infinite number of people in the new creation that He will make and command to be fruitful and multiply, being numerically in proportion to prominence within the trinity. The Father is infinite, and His people will also reproduce toward infinity. As they reach the end of eternity, which they will never do, then their numbers will reach toward infinity, who Himself is infinite. However, no matter how much time they’re given, their numbers will never actually reach infinity. Like approaching an asymptote, the closer you get to it, the less likely you will reach it. Infinity to the creation is impossible. For this reason we say that God’s creation can never be greater than Himself, in that He resides at the end of both eternity and infinity, and His creation aspires to join Him there but cannot. This too pleases God.

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