How long will Jesus reign?

We know that Jesus Christ will come back again to establish the kingdom of God here on earth. Now, how long will Jesus sit on the throne and rule the world? how does the Biblical answer to this question impact our understanding on who Jesus really is?

Today we are going to look at how long will Jesus reign. And these mysteries that we are uncovering in this series is only possible because we have come to accept the real Jesus of the Bible. I mean, you can’t understand these things if you still believe that God is Trinity. Just hold on and watch till the end.

So again, how long will Jesus reign? Forever.

Now if you look at the Bible, without doubt, you would see in several places of the Bible, a very clear statement that Jesus Christ will reign forever. If you start from the Old Testament, in various parts of the Old Testament, today we’re going to look at the book of Daniel, you will see it’s very clear, that place clearly said that Jesus will reign forever, said his kingdom Shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

If we also take a look at another place in the New Testament, just one place this time from Luke, it says and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end.

Now before I proceed, I would first of all like to make it clear that the coming kingdom of God that will be established here on earth will be the ideal form of theocracy and that kingdom or that system of government will last forever. In other words, when God takes over this kingdom of men as we have it today, He’s not going to, you know, give it back to men at some point. That kingdom will last forever.

But then what we are looking at is how long will Jesus sit on the throne as king? Now the answer to this question will be surprising to many people, especially those who are still Trinitarians, and we are only going to use the Bible to reveal the answer. OK, and you will see the implication of this answer.

Now if you look at the at least the two passages that we have here, it simply says that Jesus will reign forever. And here we’re talking about the English word forever. This word translated as forever. I mean forever does not really portray the exact meaning of the roots, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek word. Because when we think of forever, we think of, you know, infinite time. That is, you know, you know, if it is a nibble, we say Ebighebi, you know, something that will never end. That is the only thing we think of.

But when we go back to the Hebrew. We see that the Hebrew word there is Olam, and that is also the same as the Aramaic, you know, very similar Alam, and we see the Greek equivalent used throughout the New Testament for um the time of reign of Christ is Aion, okay, it’s also translated as forever, so we have ulam and ayon, the Greek equivalent.

Now our task is to find out what exactly Is this Olam and Aion? I don’t want to ask you to, you know, refer to Strong’s, you know, dictionary or any of those Bible study tools which you might not have. But today AI is very accessible, so you can quickly use your Chat GPT, you know, Deepseek or, you know, Google Gemini, which I’m going to use now because I want a straight to the point answer. Anyone can do it to find out the meaning of the biblical Olam and biblical Greek so add biblical so that you know we don’t get a modern usage of the term so I’m going to do that right now you know this is Google Gemini and I’m asking it to compare to compare the biblical Hebrew and Greek and you know bring up the results so this is what it’s you know brings out and in this result we can see Something very shocking, you know, if you’re a Bible student, it’s clearly saying that the primary meaning of Olam is hidden time, hidden time. That is a time that we don’t really know when it will end, hidden time, long duration. It can also mean age and it can also mean word.

While the Greek equivalent also can also mean age, can mean lifetime. Can mean period of existence and can refer to eternity. OK, so which means it can actually refer to eternity. But many times it refers to, you know, an indefinite period, a very long time, you know, like we see here, a wide range from long periods to eternity. So it depends. But the primary meaning is more like a hidden time, long duration.

Sometimes in the Bible you read from from everlasting to everlasting. And you see some literal versions, say from ages to ages, it’s the same word olam. You know, you read of, you hear in prayer, people say that God is the King of of the universe, King of the world, you know, melech olam, it’s the same word olam. And you also read of Aion in the Greek, can mean lifetime, can mean period of existence. But the Hebrew is more important because The Bible is, you know, you know, the the the Hebrew Bible is written in Hebrew as the name implies.

So when we read that Jesus will reign forever, two things. It can mean that yes, Jesus will reign forever. That is when he starts, when he sits on that throne, he will continue to be king forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. It can mean that because you know that word is implied in the in the Hebrew Olam and Aion. But it can also mean that he will reign for a hidden time, a time that we don’t really know when it will end, you know, a very long period of time, you know, you know, not necessarily infinite in a very long time, but it has at some point it will stop.

OK, so as you can see, this is not in any way. You can’t see this in the in the in the in the English word forever. You know, these variations is not. You can’t really understand this if you just focus on the English translation forever. Now, that is why sometimes you see that we talk of the Messianic age instead of, it’s the same word, that age you see is the same olam and Aion. I will talk about the Messianic era.

Now, our task is to actually find out how long Jesus will reign, how long exactly. Yes, we know it’s forever. But is it really forever and ever without like forever and ever and ever? Now, we can’t answer that except to go back to the scriptures. Throughout the Bible times, no one knew exactly. People sensed the time period, but we didn’t have an inspired, you know, authority that declared the exact time. It was only towards the end, you know, the closing of the canon that God revealed to John the duration of the reign of Christ. You know, from Genesis to Jude, nobody knew exactly how long the Messiah will reign until towards the end, which we believe to be around 96 or 98 AD. That was when, for the very first time in the Bible, we read in Revelation chapter 20 verse 4, that after the resurrection, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the Word of God, and those who had not worshipped the beast. We read that they came to life and reigned with Christ for 1000 years.

Now, it is only at this point in the history of Christianity that we had an authority from heaven, from God himself, revealing to us that hidden time that it’s actually 1000 years. So that is why sometimes you may have heard Bible students talk about the millennial reign of Christ. That is the 1000-year reign of Christ. Now that you have watched this far, I’m still going to reveal to you why you know this thing matters and how it can help us understand who Jesus really is, which is not possible for anyone to understand if you think of Jesus as coequal and co-eternal with God as Trinity suggests.

Now, the book of Revelation is clear that Jesus will actually reign for a thousand years. Whether this number is symbolic or literal, I’m not going to comment, but for the first time, we have come to understand that there is a period, a timeframe for Christ to reign. And now our question is why, why this definite period? Why not literally forever? Why 1000 years? Who can give an answer to this? Now we are going to find the answer to this from the New Testament again.

Before the revelation was given to John, we know from other parts of the scriptures that Paul actually had his own revelations. Some of the things God revealed to Paul, he did not write down. In fact, he was not even permitted to write, but we are lucky in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, Paul wrote down something. This is where this discussion gets interesting. If you really want to know about Jesus, pay attention. Starting from verse 24 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, Paul wrote something that we’ve never really seen elsewhere in the scripture. Then the end will come when he, that is Jesus, hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

Now, this is the first time we get to read of an end of the Messianic age, an end of the reign of Christ. Not only that, we also read that Jesus will actually hand over that kingdom to God after his own reign. Wow. And this is just the beginning of other mysteries, other things we are going to learn. So Jesus will reign for a specific period of time, which if we compare to Revelation chapter 20 verse 4, we know it is for “a thousand years” in quote. And after that, there will be an end. And what happens? Jesus will hand over the kingdom to God. You know how President Biden handed over to President Trump? How President Buhari handed over to President Tinubu? We’re actually reading this, that Christ, after the end, will hand over the kingdom to God, His Father. And when is that? He said, after He has destroyed all dominion, which is all government, all authority, all power.

Within that 1000-year reign of Christ, there will still be mortals, there will still be some sort of rebellion here and there. And what Christ essentially will do within those periods is to destroy every sort of opposition to the divine reign. Any human government that is not comfortable with a certain Jewish king from Jerusalem ruling over the whole world in the name of God, that person will be crushed. That is exactly what the scripture is saying. So this is the first point.

But Paul went on to explain what he meant by “the end will come.” In verse 25, we read, “For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. Again, we see that word “until,” which means there is a time period. Jesus is not going to continue to reign forever and ever and ever. He will only reign until. Until what? He’s reiterating the point he made in verse 24—until every enemy and opposition has been subdued under the feet of Christ. And the last of them to be destroyed is death. Which means, within that 1000-year reign of Christ, there will still be mortals. In fact, we read that people will live very long, that anyone that dies at 100 years will be considered a child. Which means people will actually be mortal, there will be subjects. Because for there to be a reign, a Kingdom, there’s got to be subjects. The saints will reign with Christ, but there will be mortals in the world in those days. But after the reign of Jesus, he will make sure that he has destroyed every human rebellion or enemy, including death itself. Which means after that 1000 years, there will be no more death literally on earth. Everyone that survives that era and the judgments to come after it will be able to live forever.

Now let’s proceed again. In verse 27, Paul went on to give another revelation that we’ve not seen elsewhere. He said, “For he has put everything under his feet. Now when it says that everything has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God Himself who put everything under Christ.” When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. Wow! Verse 27 is saying that when everything is put under the feet of Christ, we know that even the angels were instructed to worship Jesus. So even the angels, every dominion on earth or in heaven, will be put under the feet of Christ when he comes to reign. But Paul is making it clear that when he revealed from verse 24 to 26 that everything will be put under Christ, that remember, he’s not talking about God himself. This tells us that God is a distinct, separate person from Jesus. Number two, Paul is revealing to us that Jesus did not take this authority to himself. It was actually God that put everything under Christ. It was actually God that handed over this reign, this government, this kingdom to Christ for this period of time. Hope you’re following.

Now in verse 28, we read that after this period of time, after this 1000-year reign of Christ, Jesus will hand over power to God and join the rest of the saints, the rest of mankind. He was still man, flesh and blood. So when we see Jesus in heaven, we see one of us who had been exalted. After that 1000-year reign of Christ, Jesus will hand over power to God, and we all will be under the authority and reign of God himself. Now, what does this tell you? Trinity suggests that Jesus was actually the Almighty God himself, but that is not what we are reading here. Even in heaven right now and in the future, Jesus will always be subject to God. Not because he wants to appear humble, but because he is the Son of God. God is his Father.

In summary, the idea of God as a Trinity—three persons in one—is not scriptural. This concept, which has pagan origins, is incorrect. If you believe that God is a Trinity, you will struggle to grasp the revelation we’ve explored today—why God gives Jesus Christ a kingdom and why, at some point, Jesus will hand it over to God and become subject to Him. If Jesus were Almighty God, then His reign would be eternal. After all, if He is God, there should be no distinction between Him sitting on the throne and God the Father sitting on the throne. Yet, Scripture clearly states that at some point, Jesus’ work will be complete, and He will hand the kingdom back to God.

This is the second part of our series. God willing, we will continue to explore more attributes of Jesus Christ—attributes that can only be fully understood when we reject the Trinity and embrace the biblical Jesus. God bless you, and thank you.