Thank you for sharing the way you understand this issue. I don't agree, since I don't believe there are two Jesuses in heaven: one that died and the other one who resurrected him. There is one Jesus, and he is the one who said "I became dead, but look! I am living" in Rev. 1:18.
Rev. 2:8 “And to the angel of the congregation in Smyrʹna write: These are the things that he says, ‘the First and the Last,’ who became dead and came to life again ...
In the Scriptures being dead is the opposite to being alive. That is basic, but there are many believers who have lost their senses (1 Cor. 4:1-6).
Tell me: if he was alive as to give life back to the dead body, why would that step be necessary, if he could have appeared alive to his disciples without giving life to that dead body?
Did not the spirit that gave Christ physical life return to the Father who gave it when Christ physically died?
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (WEB) And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And
the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Luke 23:46 (KJV) And when
Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
The body of EVERY human, including Jesus, has physical life through the spirit or breath of life that comes from God. Just as we read in Genesis 2. When man is formed in the womb, they are complete living souls, possessing both body and spirit through the "breath of life" which comes from God.
Genesis 2:7 (WEB) Yahweh
God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
When Christ died His spirit ascended to heaven a living soul. No longer complete living soul, because the physical body without the spirit is dead. But as spirit or living soul nonetheless went to heaven, before ascending into the lower parts of the earth in spirit to redeem the faithful dead who died in faith waiting for the promised Messiah to come and set them free from the bonds of death. Then after His body lay dead in the tomb for three days, the spirit that gave Him physical life was returned to Him, and He physically arose from the tomb, once more a complete living soul with both body and spirit or breath of life necessary for His body to have life.
1 Corinthians 15:44 (KJV) It is
sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Matthew 22:30 (KJV) For
in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are
as the angels of God in heaven.
Ephesians 4:8-10 (KJV) Wherefore he saith,
When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
1 Peter 3:18-19 (KJV) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Having finished the work for which He was sent to earth to accomplish, Christ was seen physically ascending to heaven where He now is, and where He will be until He physically returns again in the hour that is coming on the last day, when the spiritual Kingdom of God in heaven is complete.
Acts 1:2-3 (KJV) Until
the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also
he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Acts 1:9-11 (KJV) And
when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
When those of faith physically die, our body will return to the earth, but our spirit will return to God in heaven from whom it came. And when our spirit is indwelt with the Holy Spirit from Christ our spirit shall never die. That's why Christ tells us, "whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die." Our body, like the body of Christ is destined to death, but when our spirit possesses the life-giving Spirit of God, we are spiritually alive in heaven a spiritual body or living (spirit) soul. In Christ even after physical death we are
neshamah chay (spirit life)
OR chay nephesh (a living soul).
Breath -
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
5397. נְשָׁמָה neshamah (nᵉshâmâh)
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KJV.
נְשָׁמָה nᵉshâmâh, nesh-aw-maw'
from
H5395; a puff, i.e. wind, angry or
vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal:—blast, (that) breath(-eth),
inspiration, soul, spirit.
Life -
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
2416. חַי chay (chay)
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KJV.
חַי chay, khah'-ee
from
H2421;
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural)
life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:— age,
alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation,
life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.