It is to this Son of Man that the Ancient of Days*14 gives everlasting dominion over the nations. When Jesus, the Son of Man, was vindicated by God in resurrection and given all authority in heaven and on earth, the nations were given a Christ-informed moral arc that if followed leads to what Jesus describes as “the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”*15 But if the nations reject the way of Jesus, it leads them to “the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”*16 Jesus teaches us that the nations that care for the impoverished, the infirm, the immigrant, and
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