Ephesians 1:22
Ephesians 1:2222And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
JWs accept "he subjected all things under his feet" as Christ's exaltation but lean heavily on the distinction between subjection in authority and actual establishment of the Kingdom — the latter reserved for 1914 in heaven and for post-Armageddon on earth. The "all things" is understood as positional, not operationally complete.
Paul leaves no loophole. "He subjected all things under his feet" is total scope — 's echo of Psalm 8's dominion language is applied absolutely to the risen Christ. And "made him head over all things to the church" grounds the present-day significance: the one whose authority is absolute is the head of the church now. completes the picture: "He must reign as king until God has put all enemies under his feet." The reign is continuous; the subjection of enemies is the ongoing campaign. Christ was crowned at the ascension, he reigns now, and the last enemy to be destroyed is death (15:26). Pair with — "all authority has been given me in heaven and on earth" — and the question the Watchtower cannot answer is: if Christ has all authority now () and all things are already under his feet (), what authority remains for a future enthronement to establish?