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What is the `something better ` for us?
`And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.` (Heb. 11: 39 & 40)
`Something better,` Greek - `keitton, meaning greater advantage, from kratos,` meaning dominion, power.
Thus, the `us,` the Body of Christ will have `something better,` a greater dominion than the Old Testament saints.
We know that the Old Testament saints were promised the city which God would bring down to the Universal realm. There they would rule with Christ over the earth.
So, what is the Body of Christ inheritance?
We have been promised to sit with Christ on His own throne.
`To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne.` (Rev. 3: 21)
And we read of the glorified Lord Jesus Christ set as King by the Father on Mount Zion in the third heaven.
`I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.` (Ps. 2: 6)
`Behold, a throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne.` (Rev. 4: 2)
The Body of Christ will be ruling with the Lord on His own throne in the third heaven, then he will begin to put down all rule, all authority and power till finally death.
`For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.` (1 Cor. 15: 25 & 26)
When that happens and after the Great White Throne judgment there will be a new Heavens and new earth.
`Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also, there was no more sea.
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of (third) heaven from God….` (Rev. 21: 1 & 2)
So, we have the Body of Christ ruling in the third heaven and then in God`s timing the Old Testament saints come down in the city to rule in the universal realm. Thus, they will be made perfect after we have been given our position in the third heaven. And on the earth Israel will rule over the nations.
Each realm that God made will then have His righteous rulership – all under the glorified Lord Jesus Christ.
`And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.` (Heb. 11: 39 & 40)
`Something better,` Greek - `keitton, meaning greater advantage, from kratos,` meaning dominion, power.
Thus, the `us,` the Body of Christ will have `something better,` a greater dominion than the Old Testament saints.
We know that the Old Testament saints were promised the city which God would bring down to the Universal realm. There they would rule with Christ over the earth.
So, what is the Body of Christ inheritance?
We have been promised to sit with Christ on His own throne.
`To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne.` (Rev. 3: 21)
And we read of the glorified Lord Jesus Christ set as King by the Father on Mount Zion in the third heaven.
`I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.` (Ps. 2: 6)
`Behold, a throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne.` (Rev. 4: 2)
The Body of Christ will be ruling with the Lord on His own throne in the third heaven, then he will begin to put down all rule, all authority and power till finally death.
`For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.` (1 Cor. 15: 25 & 26)
When that happens and after the Great White Throne judgment there will be a new Heavens and new earth.
`Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also, there was no more sea.
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of (third) heaven from God….` (Rev. 21: 1 & 2)
So, we have the Body of Christ ruling in the third heaven and then in God`s timing the Old Testament saints come down in the city to rule in the universal realm. Thus, they will be made perfect after we have been given our position in the third heaven. And on the earth Israel will rule over the nations.
Each realm that God made will then have His righteous rulership – all under the glorified Lord Jesus Christ.