Inverse Relationship of Christ and Lucifer

"The course of Christ from the time he consented to step out from His position of equality with God, His life on earth of sorrow and suffering, and His vicarious death, blasted and shattered all the misrepresentations and false charges Satan had uttered against the government of God, to the everlasting discomfiture of the rebel leader and all his hosts. 

Here was a display of love and mercy, pity and compassion, sacrifice and sorrow, long-suffering and forgiveness, which had in it no element of selfishness. It was not for the self-exaltation and self aggrandizement of God and Christ that this was done. The main factor in this wonderful work was the rescue of man from ruin, and his everlasting exaltation in glory.

But chiefly is its object seen in the lifting of man from the gates of death to honor, glory, and everlasting life in the kingdom of heaven. In the light of these facts, an expression used by Paul in Col.1:20, becomes beautifully clear: "And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." 

Q: What can be meant by the words "to reconcile things in heaven"? 

Q: Are there things there which need to be reconciled? 

The reconciling of things in the earth can be easily understood; for here rebellion is going on from the ranks of which men are to be reclaimed and reconciled to him by the grace of God. 

No such state of things exists in heaven, or, what is doubtless referred to, the heavenly worlds; and yet there may be a reconciliation to be effected there. 

Throughout the heavenly dominions, the rebellion of Satan is, of course, known, and his complaints and charges well understood. 

He had influence enough to draw a multitude of the heavenly host with him in his disaffection. 

*How far his influence may have extended to other beings in other worlds, - not to create rebellion, but to excite some query, or generate in some minds a feeling of uncertainty, - we may now know. 

But something of this kind might not be outside the range of possibilities. 

But the work of Christ, as the Redeemer of men, sweeps away all doubts, dispels all uncertainties." 

Uriah Smith