Jesus: Enthroned above all

1 Peter shows an extremely high christology by including Jesus in the eschatological role of YHWH.
This eschatological role is achieved for Jesus by including him in the divine sovereignty over all things. 1 Peter uses Psalm 110 in 3:22 to place Jesus at God’s right hand, with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. The exaltation is related to Jesus’ resurrection and the salvation that comes from the resurrection. This, however is not an achievement of Jesus, but a recognition of who he is. Jesus is not a ‘Son of Man who, like a second Prometheus, stormed heaven for himself and thus won divine worth for humanity’ 14 Nor is Jesus ‘one divine emanation among many others’15 1 Peter’s use of Psalm 110 is not one step towards a Nicene christology by identifying Jesus as an intermediary or angel. To set Jesus Christ at God’s right hand with angels, powers and authorities in submission to him was to identify him as God.
‘The spatial relationship between Jesus on the divine throne and the angelic powers is precisely how Jewish pictures of the heavenly realms portrayed the relationship between the divine throne and the angelic powers subject to God. The point is that Jesus now shares God’s own exaltation and sovereignty over every angelic power.’(Bauckham, God Crucified)
In the extremely high christology of 1 Peter, Jesus Christ is then more than an intermediary
figure, an exalted angel or demigod, he shares in God’s unique divine sovereignty