If someone is a joint heir, what happens to the other party's share?
If a person is a joint heir, the other party’s share ultimately becomes theirs. In the secular economy, when the other half passes off the scene, the surviving heir ends up with the entire inheritance. So the other party’s portion does not remain separate; it goes to the heir.
Les explains that adoption, as Paul uses it, was a Roman and Greek practice: a child was trained under tutors and then brought to an equal level with the father. But Paul teaches that the moment we become a believer, we are immediately placed as an heir with the Father and the Son, predestinated to that position with Christ from day one as a joint heir. Then Ephesians 1:11 says we have obtained an inheritance and are joint heirs with Christ. If you are a joint heir, the other parties are yours, and in the secular economy, if the other half passes off the scene, the heir ends up with it.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: