Church dispensational teaching about the end times is generally focused on judgment and the drama of tribulation that comes to destroy. But that perception misses an important aspect of God’s heart for redemption. The Father said to Yeshua, “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet” (Psalm 110:1).[1] So you may think, “Wait a minute! That sounds like judgment to me. What is this ‘enemies being made a footstool of His feet’ all about?” Yet this oath is repeated multiple times throughout the Scriptures (i.e., Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:42–43; Acts 2:34–35). So it must be very important.

Talking about Christ, Hebrews 10:10–14 says,

But He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Yeshua (Jesus) made the sacrifice of His blood for everyone who has ever lived or will ever live on the earth—for all time. As our great High Priest, He took His blood into the Holy of Holies and presented it before the Father (Hebrews 10:19–22). And Yeshua remains in God’s presence holding before the Father this precious sacrifice of His blood so that the process of redemption and reconciliation continues from the moment of His entry into the Father’s presence until now.

At some point Yeshua’s redemption will be a global experience. Not just His enemies will be made a footstool of His feet but “‘all mankind will come to bow down before Me,’ says the LORD” (Isaiah 66:23). We excitedly anticipate this, with a drive in our hearts to see all the earth become a footstool for His feet and to see every enemy bow before Him.

Remember, we were once enemies. My heart was an enemy, and now it is a place of worship. God made us His worshippers. That is how I know I am a footstool. The earth becomes the footstool of His feet—not by some concept of judgment but because all the earth receives the redemption of the Father by the blood of Christ that was offered on the cross and ushered into the Father’s presence. Then creation itself is set free from its slavery to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God (Romans 8:21).

Paul wrote in Philippians,

Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:8–11)

As we move in worship, we will see some of the greatest changes this globe has ever experienced. There are prophecies from long ago about tremendous outpourings of God’s Spirit and the great harvest of salvation that is to come (Joel 2:28, 32; Isaiah 49:6). This means that the blood of Christ is greater than anything humans do to isolate themselves from the presence of the Father. With these outpourings, all mankind and all the earth will become the footstool of our God and a place of worship to Him.

[1] All Scripture references are from the New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995).