3067 — When He Shall Come
By Editor
Please explain the meaning of 2 Thess. 1:10, "When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe." W. It seems to us that the text is quite clear as it is. Christ will be glorified in His saints when they shall be changed to His own likeness. Just the same as the clear glass prism separates the white light into the marvelous beauty of the prismatic colors, just so the redeemed host will reveal the multiform beauty of the white light of righteousness in our Lord Jesus Christ. Just the same as the perfect body is expressive of the perfect mind, so the beauty and glory of Jesus as the head of the church will be manifest in that church itself. And of course when He comes in all His marvelous glory He will be admired, or better, as the American Revised Version has it, He will "be marveled at in all them that believed." His glory will be beyond all conceptions they have ever had of His glory. It will be noted that there is a parenthetical clause in verse 10. The sentence closes with the verse, "marveled at in all them that believed in that day"—that is, in the day of His coming. Then our Lord will look upon His people—the travail of His soul—and be satisfied, and His people will say, "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us."