GOD HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER CHRIST'S FEET. [EPHESIANS].

 IN EPHESIANS 1:22 , PAUL WRITES"... AND HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER CHRIST'S FEET. AND HAS MADE HIM HEAD OVER ALL THINGS FOR THE CHURCH." ONCE AGAIN ANCIENT PRACTICES UNDERLIE PAUL'S MEANING. IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, A KING HAD THE FACES AND FIGURES OF ENEMIES HE HAD OVERCOME CARVED OR WOVEN ONTO HIS FOOTSTOOL. THE VISUAL MESSAGE IN RESTING HIS FEET ON THE FOOTSTOOL WAS OBVIOUS- THOSE WHOSE IMAGES APPEARED ON THE FOOTSTOOL WERE UNDER HIS AUTHORITY.
PAUL'S MESSAGE, THEN, IS THAT EVERY POWER , RULE, NAME AUTHORITY, PRINCIPALITY IN THE UNIVERSE-WHETHER PRESENT OR FUTURE- IS "UNDER CHRIST'S FEET. "   THE APOSTLE GOES ON TO STRESS THAT CHRIST RULES ALL THINGS "FOR THE CHURCH, " (1:22.) I HAVE A PICTURE OF CHRIST'S FEET RESTING ON A FOOTSTOOL, WITH  A CROWN SUPER IMPOSED ON THE FEET POINTS TO CHRIST'S ROLE AND AUTHORITY AS THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE. THEIR IS ALSO SIX SYMBOLS ON THE SIDE OF THE FOOT STOOL (READING CLOCKWISE AND BEGINNING WITH
THE POWER OF SIN. (circle). JESUS DID NOT SUBMIT TO IT ON ANY OCCASION, (JOHN 8:46) THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE WAS HUMBLE, OBEDIENT SERVANT WHO SOUGHT ONLY TO DO HIS FATHER'S WILL, ( LUKE 22:42). HE BREAKS ITS HOLD ON US BY DECLARING US FORGIVEN, ( LUKE 7:48-50). JESUS KEPT THE LAW PERFECT( REPRESENTED BY A PICTURE OF A ROMAN GENERAL, IN THE PROCESS HAVING DESTROYED AUTHORITY OVER HUMANITY IN COLOSSIANS (2:13-15,) PAUL USES A PICTURE OF A ROMAN GENERAL RETURNING IN TRIUMPHANT PROCESSION AFTER CONQUERING HIS FOES TO STATE THAT CHRIST CONQUERED THE LAW.. IT"DIED" WITH HIM.
CHRIST'S VICTORY OVER THE LAW DESTROYED ITS AUTHORITY TO JUDGE AND CONDEMN THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM. ROMANS (8: 1,2, 33,34.)
CHRIST MINISTRY WAS A STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME SATAN AND HIS REALM.
CHRIST WON. (MARK 3:22-27).; 1 JOHN 3:8). PAUL USES EPHESIANS 1:21;  6:12; COLOSSIANS 1:16; ROMANS 8:38. CHRIST HAS THE AUTHORITY OVER EVERY SO-CALLED POWER IN THE UNIVERSE. HE IS LORD OF ALL.
DEATH: CHRIST IS LORD OF DEATH AND THE GRAVE. IT MUST OBEY HIS COMMAND TO GIVE UP ITS VICTIMS. (LUKE 7:11-17; JOHN. 5:25-29; 11: 25,26.)
IN PHILIPPIANS 2: (9-11), PAUL WRITES:  " GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED CHRIST , AND BESTOWED ON HIM THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH, AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.