Revelation 11:15

GOD’S JUST CLAIM

‘The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ: and He shall reign for ever and ever.’

Revelation 11:15 (R.V.)

This is a just claim which God makes. He asks no more than His rights when He demands that His sovereignty should be universal. It is a just claim for many reasons.

I. Because the world is God’s world—‘All souls are Mine.’ ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’ It is not strange then that He should ask the allegiance of all.

II. Because the glory of God is the end of all created things, and specially of man.—‘For Thy glory they are, and were created.’

III. Because God’s honour is involved in the claim.—God, the King of kings, is pictured by the prophet as pleading with His chosen people in their forgetfulness of Him: ‘If I be a King, where is Mine honour?’

IV. Because God loves this world of men, not some only, but each and all of them.

—Bishop C. J. Ridgeway.