520. 'And great voices were produced in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world have become our Lord's and His Christ's, and He shall reign for ages of ages' signifies celebrations by the angels, that heaven and the Church have become the Lord's, as they were from the beginning, and that now also they have become [the heaven and Church] of His Divine Human, thus that the Lord as to both [the Divine and the Divine Human] is now going to reign over heaven and the Church to eternity. 'Great voices were produced' signifies celebrations by the angels; 'saying, The kingdoms of the world have become our Lord's and His Christ's' signifies that heaven and the Church have become the Lord's, as they were from the beginning, and now also they have become [the heaven and Church] of His Divine Human; 'and He shall reign for ages of ages' signifies that the Lord is going to reign as to both [the Divine and the Divine Human]. That 'great voices in heaven' signify celebrations of the Lord, that now He has attained His great power, is plain from verse 17 (following), where those 'great voices' set themselves forth in a summary (in summa exstant). By 'the Lord' here is understood the Lord from eternity, Who is Jehovah, and by 'Christ' is understood His Divine Human, which is the Son of God (Luke i 32, 35). [2] That the Lord is going to reign even as to His Divine Human is quite plain from these statements:-
The Father has given all things into the hand of the Son John iii 35.
The Father has given the Son authority over all flesh John xvii 2.
Father, all Mine are Thine, and Thine Mine John xvii 10.
All authority has been given unto Me in heaven and earth Matt. xxviii 18.
Of His Divine Human He also said:-
That the Father and Himself are one. That He is in the Father and the Father in Him John x 30, 38; xiv 5-12.
Add to this, that unless the Lord's Human is acknowledged to be Divine the Church must perish, for in that case the Lord cannot be in the man and the man in the Lord, as He himself teaches (John xiv 20; xv 4-6; xvii 21), and this conjunction makes the man of the Church, thus the Church. [3] The Lord's Divine Human is understood by 'the Christ' because 'the Christ' is the Messiah, and the Messiah is the Son of God Whom they expected to be coming into the world. That 'the Christ' is the Messiah is plain from these passages:-
We have found the Messiah, which is, if you interpret, the Christ John i 41 [Schm. 42].
The woman said, I know that the Messiah shall come, Who is said to be the Christ John iv 25.
For 'Messiah' in the Hebrew language is 'Anointed', as 'Christ' is in the Greek language. That 'the Messiah' is the Son of God [is plain] from these:-
The chief of the priests asked whether He was the Christ (Messiah) the Son of God Matt. xxvi 63; Mark xiv 61; John xx 31.
Thou art the Christ the Son of God, Who is going to come into the world John xi 27.
Peter said, We believe and acknowledge that Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God John vi 69.
That the Lord as to the Divine Human is the Son of God:-
The angel to Mary; Thou shalt conceive in the womb, and bring forth a son. He shall be great and be called the Son of the Most High. The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the virtue of the Most High shall overshadow thee, whence the Holy thing that is being born out of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke i 32, 35, and more elsewhere.
From these statements it is plain what is signified by 'the kingdoms have become our Lord's and His Christ's'.
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