3 Resurrections
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That "image of the heavenly" is described in Philippians 3:21. "Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body..." That change will render our vile body forms so that they become fashioned exactly like Christ's resurrected body of flesh and bones which the disciples handled and saw. A "change" is NOT an exchange which would discard the original elements which composed the physical human body. The souls and physical bodies of the saints were purchased by Christ at great price and belong to Him ("we are not our own; we are bought with a price"). Christ does not intend to throw His possessions into the trash. That would be to spit on Christ's sacrifice.The "spiritual body" is also what Apostle Paul called the "image of the heavenly"...
This glorified resurrected body of Christ could also change the appearance of His flesh and bones form into "another form" (Mark 16:12), as well as becoming invisible at will (as in Christ vanishing out of sight). In the bodily resurrection for the saints, we too will have the same capabilities. The "change" of the dead bodies of the saints coming out of the ground is not some kind of Jewish imagination. It is straight out of the scriptures - both Old Testament and New Testament.
And it is the Full Preterist position that pushes the idea of the physical dead bodies of the saints being discarded. Why would you want to unite yourself with the Full Preterists on this point?