blessed Lord is not in the presence of
God as a Spirit Being, but He is there in the form of Man. The
blessed body He had on earth, which He gave on the cross and which
laid in the tomb could not see corruption. He was raised on the
third day. He ascended in that glorified body into heaven and He is
on the right hand of God as Man, in Him dwells the fullness of the
Godhead bodily. Just one Man is there in Glory. But oh! what it
means! He is the Head of His body, the church and in the future all
His redeemed people will possess glorified bodies, like unto His
glorious body. No wonder the enemy ever aims at the denial of the
Lord's bodily presence. From many pulpits it is declared to be "too
material." The denial of this great truth, the _Man_ in glory, is a
denial of the entire Gospel. It is at this the enemy strikes.

As the glorified Man on the Father's throne He is waiting till His
enemies are made His footstool. This does not mean, as so many
believe and teach, that the Lord Jesus Christ is waiting till His
enemies are gradually overcome, till the church on earth succeeds in
converting the whole world. It does not mean that. His enemies will
be made His footstool in a far different way. It will be a sudden
event. All His enemies will be humbled, all things will be subjected
under His feet at the time of His second Coming. As there was an
appointed time by the Father for His first Coming, so is there an
appointed time for His second Coming, when the power of God and His
own power will triumph over all His enemies. As He is in His
redemptive work subject to the Father, therefore is He waiting for
that hour. Then the Father will bring in the firstbegotten into the
world (Heb. i:6) and He will receive the nations for His inheritance
(Psalm ii).

He is waiting for this great event. But He is also waiting for His
co-heirs, which constitute the church. The church, His body, must be
first completed as to numbers before the hour can come in which His
enemies are made His footstool.

He is patiently waiting for that moment. John speaks of that when he
calls himself "a companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and
_patience_ of Jesus Christ" (Rev. i:9). Centuries have come and gone
since He took that place upon the Father's throne, unseen by human
eyes, and during all this time, while the calling out of the church
proceeded, He has waited patiently. Some day His waiting will come
to an end. His church will be completed an