kingly office of christ

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kingly office of christ - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Kingly office of Christ
  one of the three special relations in which Christ stands to his
  people. Christ's office as mediator comprehends three different
  functions, viz., those of a prophet, priest, and king. These are
  not three distinct offices, but three functions of the one
  office of mediator.
  
    Christ is King and sovereign Head over his Church and over all
  things to his Church (Eph. 1:22; 4:15; Col. 1:18; 2:19). He
  executes this mediatorial kingship in his Church, and over his
  Church, and over all things in behalf of his Church. This
  royalty differs from that which essentially belongs to him as
  God, for it is given to him by the Father as the reward of his
  obedience and sufferings (Phil. 2:6-11), and has as its especial
  object the upbuilding and the glory of his redeemed Church. It
  attaches, moreover, not to his divine nature as such, but to his
  person as God-man.
  
    Christ's mediatorial kingdom may be regarded as comprehending,
  (1) his kingdom of power, or his providential government of the
  universe; (2) his kingdom of grace, which is wholly spiritual in
  its subjects and administration; and (3) his kingdom of glory,
  which is the consummation of all his providential and gracious
  administration.
  
    Christ sustained and exercised the function of mediatorial
  King as well as of Prophet and Priest, from the time of the fall
  of man, when he entered on his mediatorial work; yet it may be
  said that he was publicly and formally enthroned when he
  ascended up on high and sat down at the Father's right hand (Ps.
  2:6; Jer. 23:5; Isa. 9:6), after his work of humiliation and
  suffering on earth was "finished."