The Crucified Messiah

The Book of Revelation assures the beleaguered congregations of Asia that Jesus reigns and has events firmly in hand despite appearances and the hostility from their neighbors and even local governments. His sovereignty is based on his past death and resurrection, and the latter marked the commencement of his reign from the messianic Throne at the center of the Cosmos.

The Apostle Paul describes the proclamation of “ Christ crucified ” as the “ wisdom and power of God .” The proposition that God overthrew Sin, Satan, and Death through the execution of the lowly Nazarene is contrary to the “ wisdom of this world .” Even the spiritual “ powers and principalities ” did not understand what God was doing and sealed their own fate by crucifying the “ Lord of Glory .” And the slain “ Lamb ” will consummate this victory when he returns at the end of the age and populates “ New Jerusalem .”