Seeing that Christ was Crowned with Glory and Honor and was Enthroned in His Ascension

We need to see the objective aspect of the Lord’s ascension – in His ascension, He was crowned with glory and honour, and He was enthroned for God’s administration. Hallelujah!

This week we come to a new topic in our morning revival in the series of labouring on the all-inclusive Christ; the topic this week is, Knowing the Ascension.

For us to enter into the enjoyment and experience of the all-inclusive Christ, we need to know the ascension.

The entire Bible is a divine romance between God and man; God comes to court us and woo us, and He went through a long process in order to become a life-giving Spirit to come into us and regenerate us with His life to make us children of God.

Now as believers in Christ, we can enjoy and experience Christ in His all-inclusiveness. One aspect of Christ’s all-inclusiveness is ascension.

In Song of Songs 4:8, the Beloved tells His beloved to come with Him from Lebanon and look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir in Hermon, from the top of the lion’s dens, from the top of the leopard’s mountains.

There’s a call here for us as believers in Christ to enter into ascension and experience Christ in His ascension.

Christ today is in ascension, and He is calling us to be where He is; if we are to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ, we need to realize He’s not only in resurrection but even more, He’s in ascension.

We need to go where He is, even be one with Him where He is, so that we may enjoy all that He is to us and in us.

Christ’s resurrection was not the stopping point or destination of His process; He went all the way into ascension to be crowned with glory and honour, and there He was enthroned for God’s administration.

And He is calling us to Himself so that, where He is, we would also be. We need to arrive at the peaks in ascension, to Amana and Senir. Amana means truth; when we’re in ascension, we are gazing at truth in divine reality.

Senir means soft armour, which means that the enemy has been defeated, and now we simply need to remain in His victory, wearing a soft armour for the display of His victory.

Hermon means destruction; it refers to the destruction of the enemy.

From there, from ascension one with Christ, we see the lion’s dens and leopards’ mountains.

Eph. 2:6 says that we’re seated with Christ in the heavenlies; we are now seated with Him where He is, and whenever we turn to our spirit and remain in our spirit, we’re in the heavenlies seated with Him. Hallelujah!

From here, from ascension, we see the enemies, we have a clear view of them, and we will know how to engage in spiritual warfare with them based upon Christ’s victory. Hallelujah!

May we all be brought on with the Lord until we know the ascension and are one with Christ in His ascension in our experience day by day.

The Lord’s Ascension caused Him to be Crowned with Glory and Honor

After His resurrection, Christ ascended to the heavens, and He was crowned with glory and honour.

We need to see the objective aspect of the Lord’s ascension and be impressed with His accomplishments in His ascension.

The Man-Savior’s ascension was His inauguration into His heavenly office through the process of creation, incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.

He went through a long process including the creation of all things, the incarnation of God into man, the perfect human living of Jesus, Christ’s crucifixion, and His resurrection, in order to enter into ascension.

In His ascension, Christ was inaugurated into His heavenly office as God and man, as the Creator and the creature, and as the Redeemer, the Savior, and the life-giving Spirit, to execute God’s administration and to carry out God’s New Testament economy.

All this happened in His ascension.

If we want to understand and properly appreciate Christ’s ascension, we need to see that it was His inauguration into His heavenly office.

Just as a president, after he is elected, goes through a process to be inaugurated into his office, so Christ, after He went through a long process, was inaugurated into His heavenly office.

In the objective aspect, the Lord’s ascension caused Him to be crowned with glory and honour (Heb. 2:9) and to be enthroned for God’s administration (12:2) and made Him the Lord to possess all and the Christ to carry out God’s commission. Hallelujah!

We need to see what happened in the heavenlies at the time of the Lord’s ascension.

When we see where He is, what He has accomplished, and what He has attained to, we will be filled with appreciation for Him, and we will realize that we are one with Him, even joined to Him in spirit.

On one hand, He is the heavenlies carrying out His heavenly ministry, and on the other hand, He is very subjectively in our spirit dispensing all He is to us and ministering to us for the carrying out of God’s eternal economy.

He is now carrying out His heavenly ministry, praying for us non-stop, caring for us, and shepherding us.

This God-man Jesus Christ went through a long process in order to enter into His ascension.

He was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death, but He was crowned with glory and honor in His ascension (Heb. 2:9). Hallelujah!

Glory and honour are considered a crown; glory is the splendour related to the Lord’s person, and honour is the preciousness related to Jesus’ worth (1 Pet. 2:7).

The Lord’s dignity is related to His position (2 Pet. 1:17).

Christ is the ascended One crowned with glory and honour.

After going through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, Christ was ascended and crowned with glory and honour.

Now Christ is in a state of glory and has a rank of honor.

He is above all and over all, and everything and everyone is under His feet.

To this One we are joined in spirit, and we are one with Him in His ascension. Hallelujah!

From Him as our ascended Head there is a transmission going on to us as the church, and we can share into all that He has attained to to be one with Him. Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, we praise You for Your ascension! Hallelujah, in His ascension the Lord Jesus was inaugurated into His heavenly office through the process of creation, incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection! Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, our ascended Head, who is not only God but also man, not only the Creator but also the creature! Hallelujah for Christ as our Redeemer, our Savior, and our life-giving Spirit! Amen, Lord, grant us to see a vision of what You have attained to and what You have obtained in Your ascension! We praise You for being crowned with glory and honor in Your ascension! What a Christ we have! His person is full of glory and splendour! His worth is full of preciousness, and He is full of honor! We praise You, Lord Jesus Christ! You are glorious in state and honourable in rank! You are above all kings and rulers! Praise the Lord!

The Lord’s Ascension Caused Him to be Enthroned for God’s Administration

Heb. 12:2 is a very encouraging and significant verse; on one hand, this verse encourages us to look away from anything else unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, and on the other hand, it tells us who this Christ is.

For the joy set before Him, Christ endured the cross, despised the shame, and has set down on the right hand of the throne of God. Hallelujah!

This is a wonderful, even glorious, aspect of Christ’s ascension. In His ascension, Christ has been enthroned for God’s administration.

Christ is now on the throne of God, seated above all, ruling over all things, and carrying out God’s administration.

May the Lord shine on us and cause us to realize that right now Christ is on the throne.

Rev. 3:21 says that the Lord sat down with His Father on His throne.

This may give us the impression that God is on the throne, and there may be another throne next to Him for Christ to also sit.

But this is not the right interpretation.

Rev. 22:3 says concerning the holy city, New Jerusalem, that it has the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Rev. 22:1 and 3 do not speak of thrones – one throne for God and another for the Lamb – but of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

There’s one throne, and God and the Lamb are on it.

Rev. 21:23 further says that the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Here we see that the Lamb, Christ, as the lamp shines out with God as the light to illumine the city with the glory of God.

In other words, God and Christ are on the throne, just as the light is in the lamp and is expressed through the lamp to all those around it. Wow!

The fact that God in Christ is sitting on the throne means that God administrates the entire universe from within Christ and through Christ, just as the light shines from within the lamp and through the lamp.

Christ is now on the throne to administrate the entire universe.

Christ is the unique Administrator, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and He is the Ruler of the kings of the earth (Rev. 1:5; 17:14; 19:16).

God is in Christ, sitting on the throne, and God rules through Christ and from within Christ over all things. Hallelujah!

He is administrating the universe and all things are under His control. The presidents and rulers of the nations, the mayors and CEOs, and everyone in authority are under His control.

He administrates over the prime minister of England and the president of the United States.

He does it in His ascension, where He was crowned with glory and honour and was enthroned to carry out God’s administration.

He does it by us being joined to Him in spirit and uttering the prayers that He needs to do what He wants to do.

Christ’s administrating is related to the universe, but His carrying out of God’s New Testament economy is to propagate Himself for His reproduction to build up the church, His Body, which will issue in the New Jerusalem (Acts 5:31).

On one hand, Christ in ascension is administrating the entire universe for God’s purpose; on the other hand, He is propagating Himself to be reproduced in us and in many believers in Christ for Him to gain His Body for His increase. Amen!

May we consider the Lord’s ascension in a prayerful way to see that the enthronement of the Man-Savior Jesus Christ involves the Divine Trinity, and may we give Him the praise and honour He deserves.

May we as the many members of the Body of Christ take Him as our ascended and enthroned Head, and may we hold to Him, be one with Him, and pray in Him and with Him to release His will on the earth and carry out His administration in this universe.

We may think that it is the hate of a certain group of people that caused the war in Israel and the unrest in the Middle East, but the Lord is the One who is carrying out what is on His heart.

He is on the throne; He administrates the entire universe.

He is in control, He rules over all things, and He will carry out what is in His heart concerning His people for the carrying out of God’s administration in the universe!

Lord Jesus, we praise You for being enthroned for God’s administration in Your ascension! Hallelujah, Christ is now seated on the right hand of the throne of God! Amen, Lord, we praise You for Your ascension. You are now on the throne of God, and God administrates the entire universe from within Christ and through Christ! Wow, Lord, just as the light shines from within the lamp and through the lamp, so God rules and reigns in Christ and through Christ! Amen, Lord, we enthrone You in our being. You are on the throne to administrate the entire universe You are the unique Administrator, the King of kings and the Lord of lords! Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ is Lord and king, the Ruler of the kings of the earth! Your administration is related to the universe and Your carrying out of God’s New Testament economy is related to the church as the Body of Christ! Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, our ascended Head!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Luke, msg. 76, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 7, entitled, Knowing the Ascension.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – Lo! in heaven Jesus sitting, / Christ the Lord is there enthroned; / As the man by God exalted, / With God’s glory He is crowned. / He hath put on human nature, / Died according to God’s plan, / Resurrected with a body, / And ascended as a man. (Hymns #132 stanzas 1-2)
  – We see Thee now, at God’s right hand enthroned, / Vested with honor and with glory crowned; / Blessed Redeemer, Savior, Lord, to Thee / Be all the glory, pow’r and majesty! (Hymns #219 stanza 4)
  – But now He’s ris’n, ascended, crowned, / On the throne! On the throne! / Heav’n’s highest place for Him is found, / On the throne! On the throne! / Our hearts we low in worship bow, / And join, as one, to hail Him now: / “Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou!” / On the throne! On the throne! (Hymns #103, stanza 5)