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, so that the rebellion has been completely extinguished, then Jesus will hand over the Kingdom of the saints to our God the Father. Jesus will give up the position of absolute power and authority and willingly come under subjection to the Father, which is something 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 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 remained true until Jesus put all His enemies under His feet. After that, 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 through us, for 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 ideas of the new creation in the mind of the Father, His Son and His saints will determine the quality of the new creation, and God will make worlds through Christ that the saints have imagined, and we will carry out the Father’s will to the end of eternity. 

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 creation being sovereignly subjected to the Father through the Son, with the Son Himself willingly submitted to Him. Jesus has a finite number of people, while the Father has an infinite number of people; this is in proportion to their prominence within the trinity. The Father is infinite, and His people will also reproduce to infinity. As they reach the end of eternity, which they will never do, then their numbers will finally refrain, but of course this can never happen. Reproducing on an exponential scale, even then they will never reach infinity. No matter how much time they’re given, they will never reach infinity. They may come close to it; but like approaching an asymptote, the closer you get to it, the less likely you will achieve it. Infinity to the creation is impossible to reach. 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 and cannot. This too pleases God.

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