Are we looking for the King or the Savior?

The expectation set before the believer is the Savior, not the King. The blessed hope is the soon appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who will change our vile body and fashion it like His glorious resurrected body.

Les explains from the context that Scripture does not say we are looking for the King, but for the Savior. This follows the discussion of the last trump, when the dead are raised incorruptible and the living are changed. The believer’s vile, corrupt, prone-to-death body will be fashioned like His glorious body—the body He walked in for forty days after His resurrection, no longer limited by time and space. Les then points to 1 Thessalonians 4 and the blessed hope of the believer: the soon appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. So the believer’s expectation is directed to the Savior.

Philippians 3:20

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who do believers look for from heaven—the Savior or the King?

Believers look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, from heaven, not the King. Their citizenship is in heaven, and from that heaven they await Him. At the second coming, He comes to the Mount of Olives as King of kings for Israel, but for the church He comes as Savior, the head of the body.