Psalms 110:1-6 reads:

The utterance of Jehovah to my Lord is: “Sit at my right hand Until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.”

 2 The rod of your strength Jehovah will send out of Zion, [saying:] “Go subduing in the midst of your enemies.” ("Rule in the midst of your enemies" —ESV, NASB, Amplified, NIRV, TLB, etc.)

 3 Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day of your military force. In the splendors of holiness, from the womb of the dawn, You have your company of young men just like dewdrops.

 4 Jehovah has sworn (and he will feel no regret): “You are a priest to time indefinite According to the manner of Melchizedek!”

 5 Jehovah himself at your right hand Will certainly break kings to pieces on the day of his anger.

 6 He will execute judgment among the nations; He will cause a fullness of dead bodies. He will certainly break to pieces the head one over a populous land.

The short answer is that Jesus has been ruling “in the midst of [his] enemies” since he ascended to heaven and was glorified, sitting down at the right hand of God. After his resurrection, when Jesus met with his disciples for the final time, they had asked him: “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?” Even though he did not give them any specific answer as to time, he did tell them: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth." (Matt. 28:18; Acts 1:6,7; 2:32-36) The apostle Peter later explained that Jesus "is at God's right hand...and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him." —1 Peter 3:22; Heb. 1:3,4, 13.

Jesus, by receiving "all authority" and power over everyone else, became king and started to rule “in the midst of his enemies.” For the past two thousand years he has been "the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” (Rev. 1:5) Thus he is "King of kings and Lord of lords," the "King of those who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords." (Rev. 17:14; 1 Tim. 6:15) The apostle Paul explains further: “[God] raised him up from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above every government and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this system of things, but also in that to come. He also subjected all things under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills up all things in all.” (Eph. 1:19-23) As can be seen, Jesus has been ruling in the midst of his enemies far longer than since 1914.

Although “all things” have been subjected under Christ’s feet, and he is “head over all things to the congregation,” he is not yet ruling in the “kingdom of God” which he actively preached, and for which he taught us to pray. (Matt. 6:10; Luke 4:43) The kings of the nations are still ruling until their “appointed time” is fulfilled. (Dan. 7:13,14, 21,22, 27; Luke 21:24) Jehovah has a “definite time” for the establishing of his Messianic kingdom, when his king will “go subduing in the midst of [his] enemies,” and “will certainly break kings to pieces on the day of his anger.” (Ps. 110:2,5) At God’s great war of Armageddon, Jesus with his powerful angels will battle with the kings of the earth and defeat them, removing every trace of their kingdoms. (Rev. 16:14,16; 19:11-21) Then God’s kingdom will be the only rulership under all the heavens.

The present evidence of the signs that Jesus gave, as indication of the nearness of his kingdom, proves that this must be very close; especially when we now witness the developments within God’s household that were prophesied to take place before his return. (Matt. 24:33) We know that Jesus has not yet returned in his glory for there are definite events that must take place in connection with his return that we are still awaiting, including the identifying of the faithful slave and removal of the wicked slave. —Matt. 13:39-42; 24:45-51; 25:31-46; 2 Thess. 2:8.


The marriage of the Lamb will follow Christ’s return, “at the time he comes to be glorified in connection with his holy ones.” (2 Thess. 1:6-10; Rev. 19:6-9) This will take place after the destruction of “the kings of the earth and their armies,” and the abyssing of Satan:

“And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while. 4 And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. (The rest of verse 5 is an interpolation.) 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.” —Rev. 20:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-17.

The Society's claim that faithful anointed ones, who died since the first century, are now already resurrected and in heaven with Christ, and are dispensing information to the governing body members on earth today (the self-professed “Faithful & Discreet Slave”), is unscriptural and contradicts what Paul writes regarding the resurrection:

"Moreover, brothers, we do not want YOU to be ignorant concerning those who are sleeping [in death]; that YOU may not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope. 14 For if our faith is that Jesus died and rose again, so, too, those who have fallen asleep [in death] through Jesus God will bring with him. 15 For this is what we tell YOU by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death]; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall always be with [the] Lord. 18 Consequently keep comforting one another with these words." —1 Thess. 4:13-18.

The apostle Paul explains that none who are in union with Christ—his bride—will precede any of their brothers when it comes to being united with Jesus. None of them will “[begin] ruling as kings” apart from their brothers. (1 Cor. 4:8; Rev. 14:1-4) Those “who are dead in union with Christ" will need to rise first, they will come alive “during his presence,” “during the last trumpet.” That is the first resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:20,23, 51,52; Rev. 20:6) Will they be resurrected ahead of their brothers to the heavens, to the presence of Jesus and Jehovah? That cannot be for the ones who survive until the presence of the Lord will together with them be raised to their heavenly reward at the same time. Exactly how that will be fulfilled remains to be seen, but Jesus foretold: "And they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity." (Matt. 24:30,31) In this way his chosen ones will be gathered together, all of them, and be "caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air," together, at the same time. That necessitates an "earlier resurrection from the dead" for the ones who had died in union with Christ, in contrast to the general resurrection to follow during Christ's rule. (Dan. 12:2; Phil. 3:11; John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15) As Paul explains, not all of them will have fallen asleep in death. The chosen resurrected ones, along with the surviving ones, "shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." Then it will become true that "this which is corruptible must put on incorruption, and this which is mortal must must put on immortality." (1 Cor. 15:51-53) The "marriage of the Lamb" cannot take place until all the members of the "bride" are united together in the one place, heaven. (Rev. 19:7,8) They will all be priests and ruling as kings for the same period of time, a "thousand years." And of course, their rule as kings will not begin until first Christ will have crushed and put an end to all earthly kingdoms. (Dan. 2:44) Therefore the Scriptures do no allow for some of the anointed to be resurrected and ruling ahead of their brothers. —compare 2 Timothy 2:15-18. 

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