1.  From the constitution of His person.  As God, He is possessed of omniscience to discern every thought and intent of the heart; unerring wisdom and unsullied righteousness to try every case; with omnipotent power and sovereign authority to execute every sentence.  On the other hand, as “the Son of man,” He will appear in His human nature, for “every eye shall see Him.”  This “same Jesus” said the angels at His ascension, “who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.”  Men will be judged by one who is their Brother, “who, in all points, was tried like one of us;” “who in all things was made like His brethren.”

2.  Another reason why Jesus Christ will direct all the proceedings of the day of judgment, arises from the peculiar relationship in which, as the only Mediator between God and man, He stands to the human race.  Let us dwell for a moment upon this point.

We are informed in Scripture, that Jesus Christ is the Creator of this world:—­

“All things were made by him.”  “He was in the world, and the world was made by him.”  “God who created all things by Jesus Christ.”  “All things were created by him and for him.”

He is also Governor of the world:—­

“God raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”

To accomplish the various ends of this glorious government, He is King of nature; all the elements of nature which can in any way affect the history or destiny of the human race being directed and controlled by Him.  “The winds and the seas obey Him;” pestilence and famine, the volcano and the hurricane, are ministers of His, that do His pleasure. He is the King of providence; armies and fleets, conquests and invasions, discoveries and inventions, migrations and settlements,—­all are under the government of His wise and omnipotent sceptre. He is the King of grace; the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit are dispensed to the persons and in the measure which seem best to Him. Finally, He is the King of angels and devils; so that their power and agency, in relation to the human family, are either controlled or guided by Him.

Now, this kingdom of Jesus Christ, which began with the history of the world at least, will one day be resigned into the hands of God.  “Then cometh the end,” says the apostle, “when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God the Father, that God may be all in all.”  But ere that end comes, the Mediator himself will, as we suppose; disclose the history of His kingdom to the assembled universe.