Judge and Intercessor

Paul, in his moving address to the Athenians, shifts from his marvelous discourse on the character of the true God (vv. 22-29) to exhortation; they need to repent (v. 30). Then follows a justification for exhortation (v. 31). There is a fixed day in the future, a day of judgment. The agent in that judgment will be Jesus Christ. His qualification to judge is that He had been raised from the dead. Christ has been raised from the dead not only for the purpose of returning to heaven and resuming His fellowship with the Father, a fellowship interrupted only by the alienation and abandonment at the cross. He has gone from His tomb to the right hand of His Father to intercede for us. One day, however, the mantle of Judge will be placed on Him, and we will stand before our Judge as well as our High Priest and intercessor.

Taken from The Devotional Daily Bible