Crown Him With Many Crowns

However, the time is coming when Christ the King will bring lasting world peace. Just before He returned to Heaven in Acts 1:6-8 the Disciples questioned Jesus about His Kingdom: “So when they met together, they asked Him, Lord, are You at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them: It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When Jesus returns, He will “restore the kingdom to Israel.” In the meantime He calls us to be His witnesses “to the ends of the earth.”

Christ the King is “Coming again!” This time He will not be born in a stable, despised, rejected, or crucified. He is coming as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords” as John saw in Revelation 11:15, “Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.’”

Then the prophecy in Philippians 2:9-11 will be fulfilled: “Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Madeleine Murry O’Hare, all who have declared themselves godless atheists, all secular humanists who have said, “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul,” will bow at His feet, and declare “‘Jesus Christ is Lord,’ to the glory of God the Father.”

Christ the King will bring this present evil age to an end, and establish the perfect age reigning on earth from Jerusalem, His capital city. Isaiah 11:6-9 vividly describes the future coming, unconditionally peaceful reign of Jesus:

“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”

The human race will be redeemed; the world will “Crown Him with many crowns.” Jesus Christ will reign supremely over all His creation.

Today Christ the King calls you and me to “be His witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth until He comes in final victory, and we feast at His table for ever.” I deeply love, appreciate, and respect the ministry of Chicago Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the Founder and President of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a ministry I wholeheartedly support.

This week I read his awesome book THE JOURNEY HOME. It tells the story of “Rabbi Eckstein and a Christian journalist named Jamie traveling together in Israel and coming to strengthen their own personal faiths through each other’s eyes.” Other than the Bible I believe it is the best book I have ever read.