Paul Evdokimov's call, quoted earlier, for “Christifying rational life, the saturation of every domain by the light of Christ” echoes the many Old Testament prophesies and New Testament declarations that “He shall reign forever and ever.” Handel had passages like Psalms 97:1 and Revelation 19:6, 11:15, and 19:16 in mind when he wrote his Messiah oratorio. The dominion of Christ on earth is what every Christian prays for every time she recites the Lord's prayer, “thy kingdom come,” or utters the simplest and most basic Christian creedal declaration, “Jesus is Lord.”

Dominionism (the belief that Christians are mandated to bring the entire world under the rule of God) is sometimes confused with Christian obsession with politics and wanting to wrest control over society or government through nefarious means, but for many Christians, it entails learning to think consistently as disciples of Christ as Lord. One of the church's favorite texts regarding Jesus' dominion is Hebrews 1:2–3: “[God] has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed the heir of all things and by whom also he made the worlds, being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”