Verses 25-27, quoted in Heb. 1:10-12, speak of Christ’s continuing existence in His resurrection. Christ is the key that turns the earth to the Lord because of His eternal and unchanging existence (Rev. 1:18; Heb. 13:8). Christ’s suffering (vv. 6-8) was for redemption, and His redemption was to produce the church as the house of God and the city of God (John 19:34 and note John 19:341b). It is in Christ’s resurrection, by Christ’s resurrection, and through Christ’s resurrection that the church continues its existence and will consummate in the restoration (vv. 12-22; Matt. 19:28; Acts 3:21), in which the entire earth with the peoples of all the nations will turn to the Lord (vv. 21-22; Isa. 2:2-3; Zech. 8:20-22).
