[God's Providence] 19. Covenants given to the overcomer (7)

19. Covenants given to the overcomer (7)

Last time, we learned about the three names that are recorded on the overcomer. This time we will discuss the final seventh covenant.

The seventh covenant is that Jesus will sit together on His throne with the overcomer. (Revelation 3:21)

Jesus also said that after he himself had overcome, he sat together on the throne of God.
Jesus' overcoming means fulfilling the mission of bearing the cross.
And sitting on God's throne means the authority of reigning over heaven.
For the price of crucifixion, Jesus is now ruling the kingdom of God at God’s right hand. (Hebrews 12:2)
In the same way, if the overcomer completes his mission, he will receive the same authority to reign over the kingdom of God like Jesus.
In other words, he was promised a third position in the kingdom of God.

How is this different from the authority over all nations mentioned in the fourth covenant?
All nations represent the 144,000 kingdoms of those who will be saved during the future judgment.
Therefore, ruling over all nations means ruling all human beings born after the creation of the world.
In contrast, sitting on the throne of Jesus means authority over the spiritual beings in God’s world.

After judgment, God will make a new heaven and a new earth, and God will be in the new heaven and people will live on the new earth. (Isaiah 66:22, Revelation 21:1)
Therefore, the overcomer is promised endless authority over both the new heaven and the new earth, just as Jesus was.

The new earth does not mean a rebuilding of the physical world.
The new earth is a world of spirits because it is a world where judged spirits live.
However, the place where people live is called the new earth to differentiate it from the new heaven where God is.

This time we learned that the overcomer would sit together with Jesus on His throne. Next time, we'll look at how many overcomers there are.

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