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The fullest description in Hebrews of the place where the ascended Lord is now seated
is in chapter 8: 1, where it is said to be not only at the right hand of God, or at the
right hand of His throne, but:
"On the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens."
The only other reference in Hebrews that uses the word majesty is Heb. 1: 3. This
word megalosune is used by David in the LXX of I Chron. 22: 5. "The house that is to
be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical", and Heb. 3: 3-6 shows that
Christ is building a house "whose house are we", and Solomon recognized that, however
"magnifical" the house he had built might be, God could not be contained even in the
"heaven of heavens". Yet within a few lines, he prayed that the Lord would "hear from
thy dwelling place, even heaven" (II Chron. 6: 18, 21), and it is there "in heaven itself",
in the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man, that Christ has entered "now
to appear in the presence of God for us" (Heb. 8: 1, 2; 9: 24).
Megalosune "majesty" is ascribed to God by Moses in "The Song of Jehovah's Name"
(Deut. 32: 3), and in the prophecy of Nathan to David concerning the building of
God's house by Solomon (II Sam. 7: 21, 23). The only other king who has the term
"majesty" applied to him in Scripture is Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 4: 22; 5: 18, 19), and
this is doubly significant when we learn that the last and only other reference in Daniel is
to the glorious kingdom of the Messiah, with which it was so great a contrast:
"And the kingdom and the authority and the majesty of the kings that are under the
whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and His kingdom is an aeonion
kingdom, and all principalities shall serve and obey Him" (Dan. 7: 27 LXX).
The reader will observe in this last reference "the principalities and powers" (arches
kai exousias) of Eph. 1: 21. Here we have Moses, David, Solomon, Nebuchadnezzar and
finally and completely, the Coming of the Son of Man.
The Ascension and session of the Saviour at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty on high is a sign that these prophecies of His glory shall be as surely fulfilled as
were all those of His humiliation.
"God hath in these last days, spoken unto us IN SON,
Whom He hath appointed heir of all things.
By Whom also He made (or appointed) the ages.
Who being the brightness of His glory, and
The express image of His substance, and
Upholding all thins by the word of His power,
When He had by Himself purged our sins,
Sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."