The victor will sit with Christ on
his throne as the victorious Christ sat with his Father on his throne. The
enthronement of Christ with God is a striking image of their (functional)
equality (cf. 1;14, 15, 17). At the time John wrote, Christians constituted
God’s kingdom by acknowledging the rule of God and the kingship of Christ. In
the new age, they would share that rule and kingship over the new creation
(2:26-27; 5:10; 22:5). (Adela Yarbro Collins, “Revelation,” in The Jerome
Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John J. Collins, Gina
Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, and Donald Senior [3d ed.; London: T&T
Clark, 2022], 1866)
