And how is this Emperor going to take command of his worldwide empire? His messengers, his emissaries, are to go off into all the territories of which he is already enthroned as Lord and to bring the good news of his accession and his wise and just rule. “You are to be my witnesses,” he says, “in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth.”11 And that is of course exactly the pattern that follows
