The administrations of the Lord are manifold. Christ created them. Christ not only created the heaven and earth, but He created governmental authority in each dominion. God’s eternal purpose is for all authorities in both places to be gathered together in one – in Christ Jesus.
God’s eternal purpose is grand and glorious. His works in creation are grand and glorious yet they are just the environment of His creatures carrying out the good pleasure of His will. The fulness of God’s government and family isn’t limited to the earth but will fill both the earth and heaven. He will fill heaven and earth redemptively with the last Adam (His quickening spirit, not just the living soul), the second man (the heavenly not the earthy), and the new man (Christ not Adam). He will lead the earthly reign, according to election, with the Israel of God as the head of the nations. He will lead the heavenly reign, according to election, with the body of Christ. Accordingly, God the Father will gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him.
Ephesians 2:11-18 not only describes the distinction and divide of Israel and the Gentiles in time past, but how God made peace in Christ for to make of twain one new man so making peace. We are made nigh by His blood; in His flesh, He abolishes the law to make in Himself of twain one new man; and by the cross, He reconciles both unto God in one body. The body of Christ is made up of once Israelites and Gentiles now in Christ – a new man, a one new man. The body of Christ is the body that has part in His divine government and divine family. This body is not strangers or foreigners to what God was doing with Israel in the past, but fellow citizens with the saints. These members are not strangers or foreigners but part of the family, part
of the household of God. As the body of Christ, we are citizens of His inheritance in the saints. As the body of Christ, we are members of His household, predestined unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself. And as the body of Christ, we are an habitation of God through the Spirit, the Spirt of Christ, Christ in you the hope of glory.
Therefore, Christ is preeminent to reconcile all things to Himself both in heaven and earth by His blood, in His flesh, and by the cross. Christ is the fulness of the Godhead bodily and therefore “is all in all”. God the Father, therefore, has made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to the good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself all which will “be to the praise of His glory.”
Look Up,
Josh Strelecki
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