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“...Christ’s glory today...”

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It occurs to me that it may be helpful to post some passages that indicate Christ has already received glory after His ascension...

First, during His earthly ministry, before His ascension, the Apostle John wrote, “7:39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

Comment. I think Catholics believe they now have the Holy Spirit? This is only possible, according to John, if Jesus had already been glorified. Note that it does not say that the Spirit had not been given because Christ has not been *resurrected*. John wrote, *glorified*.

Christ was also exalted above all and glorified. In Philippians, Paul writes...

“Therefore God also highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”

Comment: For a little while, Christ was made lower than the angels. He willingly set aside His glory and was born into a human body - the ultimate humility for the Creator to become part of the creation. It was temporary. Philippians describes the ultimate exaltation by the Father above all else.

The writer of Hebrews says..

“2:9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.”

The crowning with glory and honor happened after the time He spent on earth “lower than the angels” and after His death.

And of course, John saw Christ revealed in His glory in heaven and wrote of it in Revelation 1:

“I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day[i] and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, 11 which said, “Write on a scroll[j] what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” 12 [k]Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man,[l] wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest. 14 The hair of his head was as white as white wool or as snow,[m] and his eyes were like a fiery flame. 15 His feet were like polished brass refined in a furnace,[n] and his voice was like the sound of rushing water. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars.[o] A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest.”