ON THE RIGHT HAND

How did Jesus SIT at the right side of God since He and the Father are One?

How can this be since Jesus IS God? “Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.” Luke 22:69)

Sitting at the right hand is not spatial in geometric coordinates; it is relational. Before He arose, Jesus became sin (2 Cor 5:21) and as such was crucified as if a traitor (zealot) against authority.

Because he had been made sin, He would need reprieve from the Father. Hence, the crucifixion was followed by reconciliation (John 29:17).

Being at the right hand of a former enemy is reconciliation and was a Jewish custom whenever enemies reconciled. They were not physically at the right side but was there in spirit. 

As an example from Josephus, King Herod Agrippa sent his representatives to Cestius, Roman governor of Syria, and the present enemy of the Jews, “that Celsius should give them his right hand, to secure them of the Roman’s entire forgiveness of what they had done amiss (against the Romans and Caesar).

Agrippa reconciled himself and his people to the Roman rulers so that he could rule for Caesar in Jerusalem. 

Agrippa extended his right hand from afar. He sat distant to Nero Caesar but sided with him despite the insurgence of the Jews against Roman rule.

As such, he sought to bridge the breech between himself and Caesar. He “sat” at the right hand side of Caesar in goodwill toward him. The right hand that he extended was the extension of goodwill, which is the very definition of agape (love).

Applying that to Jesus and the Father, after taking on sin for the Jews (which is what Agrippa did), that finished, the Father restored to His Flesh divine love. Hence, Jesus at the right hand of God is full restoration after taking on sin and the Father and Son becoming one again after isolation from God’s Existence and the separation of the Father (Mat 27:46) and His Spirit (Mark 25:37).

The Three Substances (Holy Trinity) had been torn asunder (Luke 23:45), but when Jesus was at the Father’s side; the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were One again. God had to die! Since He is the Alpha and Omega, He would never die, but His Substances only separated for a short time while the work of redemption was in process.

It was at the right hand of the Power of God just as Agrippa was the right hand of the power of Caesar, as his representative and mediator. 

Jesus remains as the Power and Mediator of God as He sits with Christians in Spirit, just as Agrippa was the spirit and power of Caesar in Judeae.