Christ is the rightful owner of the earth, and He is coming to take possession of the earth, as seen in Revelation 10; when He comes, His face was like the sun, His feet like pillars of fire, He placed His right foot on the sea and the left on the land, and He cried our with a loud voice as a lion roars; He exercises His judgment and He comes to take His rightful inheritance.
Lord Jesus, we love You and we welcome You in our being today. Make Your home in all our heart. We enthrone You as our King. We give You the full ground in us. Oh Lord, may Your kingdom come and may Your will be done in us today. Judge in us what needs to be judged. Infuse us with Yourself. Take possession of all the ground in our being. Make us Your overcomers who give You the opportunity to do what You want to do in our being! Amen!
May we all see what the apostle John saw in Revelation chapter 10, a clear vision of Christ coming to take possession of the earth. May we see Him as another strong Angel, the Servant of God, coming to do God’s will and carry out God’s economy.
He comes down out of heaven, and on His way to the earth to take possession of the earth, He is in a particular way and some specific events are taking place.
Christ’s return, His coming to possess the earth and bring in His kingdom, is not a sudden event; it takes place over a long period of time.
He first comes secretly, clothed with a cloud; before He comes openly on the cloud, He comes secretly.
Why does He come secretly and what does this mean? He comes secretly to rapture His overcomers.
Those who are ready, ripened, and matured, will be raptured by the Lord in His secret presence, at the throne, so that they will be with Him.
He will rapture many different kinds of people, and we want to be the living overcomers today who will be raptured by the Lord at His throne in His secret coming.
Then, He will come openly, and all eyes will see Him. In particular, He will come to save Israel, and all those who are left in Israel will see Him, will repent, and will be saved by the Lord. How wonderful!
Our Lord is so gracious, so enduring, and so far-reaching in His mercy and grace! Today we are in the age of grace, which is also the age of the mystery.
Even though we can’t seem to see much of God’s economy happening outwardly, the Lord is working in the depths of our being to make us His overcomers who offer Him the beachhead for Him to return and take over the earth. May we cooperate with Him today!
As the Rightful Owner of the Earth, Christ is Coming with Judgement to Possess it
Revelation 10:1 speaks of the Lord, whose face was like the sun, and His feet like pillars of fire. Amen, when the Lord comes as the rightful Owner of the earth, He will take possession of the sea and of the land!
In the Gospels, His face was lovely to behold, and in Song of Songs, the loving seeker was drawn by Him when she looked at His face.
In the Epistles, the Lord’s face is full of glory, and when we behold His face, we are transformed from glory to glory into the same image, even as from the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18).
But here in Revelation 10 His face is shining as the sun; this is for the carrying out of His judgment in order to bring in His kingdom.
Today Christ’s face is shining like the sun; we need His face shining over us to expose us and judge anything in us which is not compatible with Him.
His feet, with which He had His bright and perfect walk, qualify Him to carry out His judgment steadfastly according to God’s holiness.
Near the time of His coming to the people on the earth openly, Christ will be like the sun, not like the morning star, which appears before the darkest time, prior to dawn, to those who love Him and wait for Him.
We want to see Him and gain Him as the morning star today! The fact that His feet are like pillars of fire shows the holiness of God (Exo. 19:18; Heb. 12:29), according to which Christ will execute His judgment upon the earth.
As the rightful Owner of the earth, Christ is coming with judgment to possess it. He placed His right foot on the sea and the left on the land (Rev. 10:2).
The fact that Christ places His feet on the sea and on the land shows that He is treading on them, and to tread on them is to take possession of them (see Deut. 11:24; Josh. 1:3; Psa. 8:6-8).
He first put His right foot on the sea, where the demons are, and He put His left foot on the land, where the people dwell.
First, He takes care of the demons and judges them, and then He takes possession of the earth with all things in it. This is how Christ, our eternal King, takes possession of the earth.
Christ is worthy to open the scroll of God’s economy, and He is qualified to possess the earth.
He paid the highest price to purchase the earth so that He may establish His kingdom here, and in His second coming, He is taking possession of the earth.
We see in the book of Joshua that every part of the land that the people of Israel stepped on, where they set the sole of their feet and treaded on, was theirs.
They were to walk through the good land, and wherever they walked and their feet were set, that would be their possession.
Similarly, Christ as another Angel sent by God will come to tread upon the sea and the earth, for both the sea and the earth were given to Him as His inheritance (Psa. 2:8).
He possesses the earth and the sea, for He is the rightful owner, and He judges what needs to be judged.
On the one hand, He is carrying out His judgment, and on the other hand, He is exercising His ruling and reigning.
Today the earth and the sea are under the usurpation of Satan, God’s enemy. God has been tolerating this for centuries, but praise the Lord, one day He will tolerate it no longer.
Christ will return to claim His rightful inheritance, and He will set His feet on the sea and on the land to take possession of them. We are all looking forward to that day, and we yearn for that day to come soon.
He is the Lion-Lamb-stone who is worthy to open the scroll of God’s economy and carry it out. He is qualified to possess the earth, for the earth and the sea are His inheritance.
How we praise Him! How we worship Him! And how much we want to cooperate with Him today to give Him the full ground in our being for Him to spread in us, grow in us, fill us, and take possession of our being.
Before the Lord can take the physical earth and sea, He wants to gain the full ground in our being; He wants to be our all in all, even to be our centrality and our universality.
He wants to reign and rule in us. We are in His kingdom, which is the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, and we need to welcome His rule, allowing Him to rule and reign in us.
May we allow Him to rule and reign in our being by our receiving and enjoying the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness so that we may reign in life through the One (Rom. 5:17).
As we do this, as we remain in the mingled spirit and let the Lord do in us what He wants to do, we will pray for His coming, we will desire what He desires, and we will hasten His return!
Lord Jesus, we praise You as the One who is the rightful Owner of the earth and the sea! Hallelujah, God gave Christ the earth and the sea as His inheritance, and Christ is soon coming to take possession of the earth! Amen, Lord, we pray for You to return soon! Come, Lord Jesus! You are worthy to open the scroll of God’s economy and carry it out! You are qualified to take possession of the earth! Amen, Lord, we are looking forward to seeing You coming and setting Your right foot on the sea and Your left foot on the land to take possession of the land and the sea! Hallelujah, Christ as another Angel will tread upon the sea and the earth, for both the sea and the earth were given to Him as His inheritance! Amen, Lord, we love You and we give You more ground in our being! Gain us as Your overcomers today. We want to live a life for the fulfilment of Your purpose. May our living and work today hasten Your return. Amen, Lord, come to take possession of the earth and the sea to establish Your kingdom!
Christ is Provoked to Anger and Roars like a Lion, Judges everything, and Returns to Possess the Earth!
In Revelation 10:3 we are told that Christ cried out with a loud voice just as a lion roars. In Proverbs, we are told that the roaring of a lion is like a king’s wrath; when the king is angry, he is like a roaring lion (Prov. 19:12; 20:2).
This indicates that Christ as the King of the earth is provoked to wrath; He is provoked to anger. In the Gospels, we see Christ as a meek and lowly Lamb of God, and all men were drawn to Him.
In the Epistles, we are told that, as we look away unto Jesus, we are infused with faith to run the heavenly race.
But in Revelation, we see a Christ who is provoked to anger by the situation and condition on the earth, and He is pouring out God’s judgment and returns to possess the earth! Amen!
He’s the rightful Owner of the earth, and He is also the eternal King coming to take possession of the earth.
A lion roars to declare its strength and authority, and also to defend its territory. If you get to hear the roaring of a lion, which can be heard up to eight kilometres, it is quite a dreadful sound to hear.
Christ as the King of the earth is provoked to wrath, and He will soon return to exercise and pour out God’s judgment, and He will take possession of the earth.
We should not loose heart today when we see the wickedness of men and the wearing out tactics of the enemy. Rather, as our outer man is decaying, may we open to the Lord to be renewed in our inner man (2 Cor. 4:16).
And may we set our hope in His coming, for Christ will come to judge everything and take possession of the earth.
He is getting ready to possess the earth by exercising His kingship, His rulership, to judge on the negative side so that He may clear up all the negative situations, and also to exercise His reign on the positive side.
When Christ cried out with a loud voice, the seven thunders uttered their own voices; these must be the ultimate utterances of God’s full wrath.
When the apostle John was about to write what the thunders spoke, he was told not to write these but seal the things which the seven thunders spoke. Today we don’t know what the seven thunders said, but one day we may find out! Hallelujah!
In Revelation 10:5-6 we are told, And the Angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up His right hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there shall be delay no longer.
There is no more delay to the coming of God’s judgment and to Christ’s return to take possession of the earth.
The time is coming when God will no longer tolerate what is happening on the earth, and Christ will come to pour out God’s judgments.
The martyred saints are praying (Rev. 6:10), and soon Christ will return to judge the enemy and all his works, the evil people and all their deeds, and even the earth will be judged, for everything needs to be purified by fire.
All these things will take place in world history. We may not like to hear this, and we may be a bit afraid of what will happen, but we as believers in Christ need to yearn for the Lord’s parousia.
We want to cooperate with Him today so that, before the day of trial, we will be raptured! So we want to be mature today; we want to ripen early so that we may be spared from God’s judgment on the earth.
The Lord gives us many chances; we may be raptured even during the great tribulation, but we may go through different dealings and sufferings.
But we want today to cooperate with the Lord in the church life to be His overcoming saints who are taken up to His secret presence, at the throne of God! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we aspire to be Your overcoming saints today. Grow in us unto maturity. We want to be ripened earlier to be the firstfruits taken by You at Your secret coming. Amen, Lord, we love You and we open to You. Even as we are learning of what will happen at the end of this age, the judgment and the Lord’s coming, may we give ourselves to cooperate with You even more. Amen, Lord, we come to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help. May we live a life by the grace of God. May we learn to live and walk by the Spirit, doing all things in the organic union with You! Amen, Lord, we want to be raptured by You and return with You to possess the earth! We praise You, Lord Jesus! We open to Your shining to judge anything in us and about us that is not compatible with You. Amen, Lord, remove any of the ground of the enemy in our being and bring in Your kingdom in us and through us! Grant us to be those who overcome today so that we may be raptured at Your return!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Revelation, msg. 26 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 42 (msg. 6), Christ, the Eternal King, Coming to Possess the Earth and the Finishing of the Mystery of God – day 4.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Hail to the Lord’s Anointed, / Great David’s greater Son! / Hail, in the time appointed, / His reign on earth begun! / He comes to break oppression, / To set the captive free; / To take away transgression, / And rule in equity. (Hymns #968 stanza 1)
– And soon will be the coming / Of our triumphant King! / He’s coming for the churches / Where His sweet praises ring. / Come, Lord, come reap the firstfruits, / As draws the harvest nigh, / And to Thy throne do take us, / To reign with Thee on high. (Hymns #1265 stanza 4)
– ’Tis by His heav’nly rule within / As heav’nly citizens we live; / ’Tis by submission to His rule / Expression of His reign we give. / Here in this heav’nly realm we live, / And with this heav’nly pow’r possessed / We walk and fight in heav’nly light / Until the Kingdom’s manifest. (Hymns #942 stanzas 6-7)
