Thesis 87: "Ruling with Christ"

We are ruling with Christ,[1] seated on thrones in the heavenlies,[2] above all powers, lords, and archists of the Old Age.[3] We reign when we suffer at the hands of statists for advancing the cause of God’s Law (“justice”[4]; “righteousness”[5]), which means we endure violence without returning violence (#81) or harboring bitterness. We do not wait for Christ to return and set up an earthly political empire;[6] we overcome evil with good[7] and thereby restore Edenic conditions.[8] Those who reject Christ’s Way of suffering and prefer the way of human vengeance and political domination have been deceived by Satan[9] and overcome by the mythology of the Old Age.[10]

Notes
1. Revelation 2:7,25-28; 5:10; 12:11; 17:14; 1 John 2:13-14; 4:4; 5:4-5; Romans 3:4; 8:37; 12;21; Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:29-30
2. Ephesians 2:6; Luke 22:30
3. Ephesians 1:21; 1 Peter 3:22
4. 2 Timothy 2:12
5. Matthew 5:10
6. Revelation 3:21
7. Romans 12:21; 1 John 2:13-14; 4:4; 5:3-5; Revelation 17:14
8. #89; Revelation 2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12; 21:7
9. Matthew 16:23; Genesis 3:5 + Luke 4:5-7; Mark 10:42-45
10. 2 Peter 2:19-20; 1 Corinthians 6:7