The Scriptures present four representative men to whom we relate: Adam (racially),

Abraham (redemptively), Moses (corporately), and David (regally). If we are desirous

of a greater understanding of the emerging kingdom David provides its typical

representation with Christ, the son of David, as the anti-type. David’s life, therefore,

becomes a lesson for the increase of the kingdom.

David was the beginning of a new order. He was the eighth son of Jesse, eight being

the number of new beginnings (see 1 Sam 16:1-13). In music the eighth note is the

first note of a new octave. With the coming of Christ a new sound is being heard in

the earth. God in Christ has invaded history to inaugurate a new order. As the ‘son of

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David’ Jesus is the ‘last Adam’ and the ‘second man’ (see 1 Cor 15:45-47). He is the

terminal point of the old and the beginning of the new – he is both alpha and omega.

As the representative man he makes “all things new” (Rev 21:5). By truly becoming

man (the last Adam) he suffered the passion, submitting to the death of the cross, to

be powerfully raised in that same humanity (the second man) breaking once and for

all the power of death and seated at the right hand of the Father. As the divine Son

having perfected humanity through the suffering of obedience he now governs and

fills the universe as the God-man. (see Eph 4:10; Heb 2:10-11). Through his death

“old things have passed away” and by his life “all things have been made new” (2 Cor

5:17). By faith the believer is placed into Christ – into his death, resurrection, and

ascension glory (see Rom 6:3-10; Col 2:12-13; 3:1-4; Eph 1:3, 4, 7, 13, 20; 2:4-10).

All that is Christ’s in actuality is now the believer’s in potentiality, contingent only

upon faith-obedience.

While recognising the many interpretations of the book of Revelation, the fact

remains the kingdom has come definitively, is coming progressively, and will come

consumatively. Therefore,, “the tabernacle of God is with men” (Rev 21:3) – the new

heavens and the new earth, the new creation, has already come! The new order of the

kingdom was inaugurated when Christ ascended to the right hand of the majesty on

high, the Father declaring to him, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies the

footstool of your feet” (see Heb 1:3, 13; Acts 2:31-35; Mtt 22:41-46; Psa 110:1). He

then poured out the promise of the Father, the Spirit, on the day of Pentecost.

Therefore, that day and every subsequent visitation of the Spirit is nothing less than

the coming of the kingdom to earth as the enemies of Christ are progressively made

the footstool of his feet until the final consummation when Christ returns for a virgin

Bride and a world filled with the knowledge of his glory.

And so, now in his ascended glory he is filling the universe, but not on his own.

Seated at the Father’s right hand,

Now, through the church, which is his body, he is filling “everything in every way”.

Through the church, the corporate expression of the new order, he is making known to

principalities and powers the manifold wisdom of God (see Eph 3:10; Col 2:15). The

new order is nothing less than a cosmic invasion of a new humanity conformed to the

image of Christ.

This brings us to the first of our six transitions: