If Jesus Reigns

When you consider the twist in the story that took place at the Cross, you see that everything that looks like unbelief and rebellion fighting against the rule of Christ is actually the work of God bringing forth His glorious plan in the salvation of the world.  The kings of the earth may set themselves against the Lord and against His Anointed, but He sits in heaven and laughs and then holds them in derision.  God will not be mocked - ever.

But it doesn't end with that one event.  This means, following the Ascension of Jesus Christ, that His mediatorial rule at the right hand of the Father is not struggling to accomplish all that He intends.  When Rome comes and destroys Jerusalem, we find that He continues to work in the words and actions of those who shake the fist at Him to accomplish all He intends - both Jerusalem and, as it turns out, Rome as well.

And this means that every act of rebellion, every sinful, painful, wretched act of man is no sign at all of the failure of God's absolute sovereign and good rule.  It simply means that at times we cannot see what He is working through each and every act.  And it never gives an excuse to the one perpetrating the sinful act.  It does mean that the glory that He will bring forth from that sinful act will be far weightier, far more glorious, far more beneficial to the kingdom, than the harm that was truly brought upon the victim of such an act.

If Jesus reigns, then He reigns perfectly.  If He reigns perfectly, then all will be well.