Revelation 2:27

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Revelation 2:27

received from My Father
God cares as much or more about the means as the ends. Many Christians would do well to remember this when seeking the miraculous from questionable sources. The Son would only receive the kingdom from the Father, not from Satan (Luke Luke 4:5-8).

There is a divine chain of authority: Father to Son to believer. The Son has authority because He is under authority and likewise the believer. This authority is forfeited when the chain is broken. The centurion, in explaining his authority said that he, like Jesus, was also under authority (Luke Luke 22:29). All things have been given to Jesus by the Father (Mtt. Mat. 11:27). Jesus can bestow a kingdom because His Father bestowed one upon Him (Luke Luke 22:29).

Notes

1 “It would appear that this section is eschatological in nature and looks 1) to the Millennium when all nations and peoples will acknowledge Christ as king and 2) to Jerusalem as His royal capital (cf. Eze. Eze. 28:25, Eze. 28:26; Joel Joel 3:9-17; Mic. Mic. 5:4-15).”—John MacArthur, The MacArthur Study Bible (Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1997), Ps. 149:6-9.

2 Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 148.

3 Ibid., 149.

4 Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989), 125.

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