Romans 15:20-21 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: {21} But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.It could not be any clearer: We see (optanomai) Christ through the Gospel. Those in the first century were covenantally gradually beholding His face as in a glass darkly. But we see Him clearly. We are beholding His face. I marvel how so many of us can sing songs about asking Christ to open our eyes to see Jesus, and yet in theology deny seeing Him? How can we pray and sing that, believing that it is not fulfilled? It was never the plan of God for His people to eternally see Him any other way that spiritually through the Gospel. What did Christ come to do but give sight to the blind? Sure, He physically healed people, but if that healing was to show forth the greater healing of spiritual blindness, then are we anticipating a regression to physical healing? How anti-climactic.
I will be the first to admit that I don't *feel* like I see Jesus. But
His word tells me I do. I will be the first to tell you I *wonder* what
it will be like when we die, but Jesus Christ said that we see Him now.
Any other desires to see...are those desires really all that far-removed
from the wicked and adulterous generation that sought after a *sign?* I
feel so prone to seek those signs. To seek physical sight of Christ. But
if I admit that I spiritually see Him, and that there will never be a physical
sight of Christ, then what other sight is there left? Pseudo-spiritual
sight? Pseudo-physical? I see nothing in Scripture that would even remotely
imply another sight. If we are in Him, we see Him...we see God.