other words, Paul reconfigures the heavenlies around Christ—who created them and now rules over them (Col 1:15–20)—and this reconfiguration has at least one foot standing on apocalyptic beliefs.308 As such, the command urges a profoundly countercultural posture in the world because it taps into a new kind of power, thus contradicting the “self-help schemes the ascetics are offering.”309 In “seated at the right hand of God” we enter into the profundity of early Christian Christology. Two options need