There is no higher throne than the throne of Christ. That throne is being created in our heart. We are being prepared so we may properly occupy, in Christ, our own personality.

No human being ever can find peace or fulfillment until the throne room in his or her personality is occupied by the Son, and the Father in the Son. We have been created to be governed and occupied by Another. This is the true and eternal meaning of the Divine fiat, "male and female created he them."

It is only as the Father and the Son find perfect rest in us that we are allowed back into the throne room of our own personality—there to sit in that highest of all thrones with the Lord Jesus Christ.

"Unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come." We are speaking of "the world to come," the product of the second beginning. It has not been placed in subjection to angels but to the heirs of salvation.

Now we come to the enlargement of what God spoke concerning man in the beginning—that man would govern the works of God's hands.

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: (Hebrews 2:6,7)

What is man? A question for philosophers!

God is ever mindful of man and visits him often.

God made man a little lower than the angels.

God crowned man with glory and honor.

God placed man in authority over the works of God's hands.

If we will take these four statements to heart and ponder them carefully we will gain insight into the purpose of God in creating man.

Christian fables view rest and peace in Paradise and a splendid mansion as the reward for serving the Lord. But God's purpose in man is not that man rest for eternity in a garden but that he be crowned with glory and honor as a son of God and govern righteously the works of God's hands. God's eternal plan is a reaction against rebellion, and has to do also with the other aspects of God's purpose that we mentioned previously.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. (Hebrews 2:8)

"All things" have been placed in subjection to God's sons. God speaks in a timeless vision. It seems to us in the present hour that the first world order is going to endure and that man forever will be the slave of Satan and his own lusts and self-will (unless he can escape to the spirit Paradise).

The Word of God declares otherwise. The first world was finished on the cross and now is dying and passing away.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (I Corinthians 7:31)

To be continued.