The lofty looks of man shall be humbled
Particularly of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God,
assuming that to himself which belongs to God; looking down with
contempt upon, and behaving haughtily and insolently to all below
him; blaspheming the name of God, his tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven; he shall be humbled, consumed, and destroyed
with the breath of Christ's mouth, and the brightness of his
coming, ( 2
Thessalonians 2:4 2
Thessalonians 2:8 )
and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down;
of the followers of antichrist, who have boasted of their wisdom
and knowledge, of their number, power, greatness, and authority,
of their wealth and riches, and of their merits and works of
supererogation; their pride will now be stained, and all their
glory laid in the dust:
and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that
day:
in his divine Person, and in all his offices, and especially in
his kingly office; he shall be King over all the earth, the
kingdoms of this world will become his, he shall be the one Lord,
and his name one, ( Zechariah
14:9 ) ( Revelation
11:15 ) this will be in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the
latter day, or last day of the Gospel dispensation, when the
church will be exalted, as in ( Isaiah 2:2 ) and in the
personal reign of Christ it will still more appear, that he, and
he alone, will be exalted by and among his people, among whom his
tabernacle will be, for then he will have no rivals; not only all
rule, power, and authority among men, will be put down, and the
beast and false prophet will have been cast alive into the lake
of fire; but Satan, the god of this world, will be taken and
bound, and cast into the bottomless pit, and so remain during the
time of Christ's thousand years' reign with his saints on earth:
this passage is referred by the Jews F21 to the end of the six
thousand years the world according to them shall stand.