Recall: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on the throne of His glory

We now live in a very different world from when the Gospels were written down. It is difficult for us to understand who the King is – the picture loses its clarity and transparency. We have heard many times that we too will reign in Christ. So today, we need to remember the original meaning of the word `king.’ In this way, we will understand the true worth of Christ and, through Him, our wealth.
We will be greatly mistaken if we compare the kingly worth of Christ with the power of earthly rulers. We know from history that the absolute power of earthly kings was based on suppressing subjects and taking away their freedom to make them subject to the ruler’s will and the law devised by him. The statement, “The law is the king, and the king is the law,” was then the prevailing one. All power belonged to the king, but he was outside the law. But God is not such a king, and his kingdom is not such a king. He has handed over his kingdom through his Son Jesus Christ here on earth. God’s absolute power comes from His omnipotence and His nature.
No creature in all the universe is not filled with God. And there is no being that does not exist in God. God supplies all beings and with that surpasses them in all things. A more straightforward way to put it is this: “There is a kingdom because there is a King” or “there is no kingdom without a King.”

In the history of humanity, absolute power has been called `tyranny’ and has taken various forms and has always ended tragically. The total capacity of God, which has been revealed to us in Christ, will never lead us to turmoil and revolution. For the man who goes against the will of God is making a rebellion against himself, and this ends in folly – which is even worse than the tyranny of the state. We have tried similar experiments that were intended to liberate humanity from God. We know well what fascism and communism led to; we will not even mention it…
In our consciousness, the word `king’ means: asking subjects to do the ruler’s will. God’s government is quite different – it is existential power. The world cannot exist without God the King, which is why there are so many comparisons of God to kingship in the Old Testament. But always in the context of His wondrous works beginning from the moment of creation. “How manifold are your works, O Lord! You have wisely done everything. The earth is full of your creation” (Ps. 104:24). Any comparison of the Creator with earthly kings cannot be on one plane. Our temporal agents are but a poor caricature of the power that God the King has over the entire universe.
One of the essential attributes of rulers is the ability to set laws and control their implementation. We call it legislative and executive power. Again, I will tell you that earthly power is an unserious imitation of the true Kingdom. We accept human law voluntarily but under the compulsion of the power of authority. How do we know what is harmful and what is positive in this, from the standpoint of society? This is why people compare specific life situations with the laws of society.
Does God also do this? Before God, all existence is good, and we can only choose evil by a free act of will. Only a being who is given a free choice can do evil. And when such a being chooses anything but God, it does wrong. And that is in – the attempt to find something more worthy outside of God. And that is where God’s judgment lies: in separating those who are with the Creator from those who have fallen away from Him. And this is not the preservation of a particular principle. There is only one absolute and final Principle and Law for everyone and everything – the one God. And that is why the Holy Church today presents us with the image of Christ the King. He does not judge. He alone is the sufficient Measure. With Christ, every man must compare himself, and we must place ourselves on the right or the left side of Him. Everyone who has sought God will find Him and prepare for him. Even those who have sought everything outside the kingdom of God will also meet the Lord and will be greatly surprised and saddened. Christ’s judicial power is the power to separate the good from the bad.

“Ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people appointed for a possession, that ye should shew forth the glorious deeds of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9). These are the words with which the holy Apostle Peter addresses us in his First Letter. Today’s feast is our triumph in Christ. He has called us “out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). He has given us the same power which he received from the Father. We also reign in Christ.