The second letter written by Paul to the Corinthians around 56 AD, from what most scholars suggest. Here in these verses we are going to be going over the Assurance of the Resurrection, with the first 11 Verses shared here from his Letter to the Saints in that day in age and see what we can find out about this Resurrection.
(Just realize that I am a man who is fallible - Be encouraged to read and study the scriptures and may you be guided in the right direction by our Father in heaven, by and through the spirit in Christ)
2Co 5:1 For we have known that if the tent of our earthly house may be thrown down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands—perpetual—in the heavens,
Paul having addressed Jesus and the Light of Christ’s Gospel proceeds to move forward in once coming to the light and knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ goes on to talk about how, if the tent of our earthly house (tabernacle) may be thrown down (destroyed), that he affirms we have a building from God, a house not made with hands - perpetual - in the heavens.
First let us address the tent of our earthly house - are there any scriptures that can add emphasis? Lets look at what Job wrote,
Job 4:19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
Job 4:20 From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
What is founded here in Job is that - as human beings we are inhabitants of the houses of clay that is to say our bodies, whose foundation is dust (earthly); and we bruise and decay as the moth can destroy things, similarly to rust. From morning to evening, these bodies are beaten down; With any regarding them, they end up perishing forever meaning this body dies. There is no stopping death.
Paul is encouraging the Corinthians however, though we live in these earthly bodies, and they are destroyed. We have a building from God, a house that is not made with human hands.
Paul wrote in the previous chapter 2Co 4:7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us;
2Co 4:8 being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
2Co 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 at all times carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,
We have a treasure in these bodies, and what that treasure is the (Heavenly) Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life of Jesus in and through his death burial and resurrection may be outwardly expressed through faith. Though this earthly body it may go through all types of different trials it is always being carried around by those who are believers in faith.
In the 2 letter Peter wrote, we see him write this,
2Pe 1:13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tent, to stir you up in reminding [you],
2Pe 1:14 having known that the laying aside of my tent is soon, even as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me.
This tent, the earthly body, this old man / made new in Christ - is to be laid aside and the Spirit that lives with-in us, is there with-in us being carried around as believers in faith of the life of Jesus whom died, was buried and raised again in which you too are raised to newness of life, when one dies with Christ, buried with Christ, and raised to new life in Christ.
2Co 5:2 for also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves with our dwelling that is from Heaven,
Paul goes on stating, for also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves with our dwelling that in is from Heaven. Paul is addressing the nature and state that all people tend to be in even as believers groans in which one desires to get rid of this body and to inhabit the new spiritual body which God himself will give to all people at the end of this life, that is able to dwell in the Heavenly realm with God.
Lets look at what Paul mentioned in His Letter to the Romans,
Rom 8:22 for we have known that all the creation groans together, and travails in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only [so], but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, expecting adoption—the redemption of our body;
Paul does not mention only believers here, but indeed the creation and all of it groans together, and travails in pain together, even now today. Those who are awaiting and expecting adoption (the obtaining of the new heavenly creation), is what they are waiting on in which they leave this world behind in which is all in Gods timing. (2 Corinthians 5:4)
2Co 5:3 if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we will not be found naked,
Paul writes to the Corinthians, even though we are growing and desire to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, in that it be that we are not founded naked, but are indeed clothed in Christ.
Lets look at some other scripture from John who wrote Revelation,
Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold fired by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and with eye-salve anoint your eyes, that you may see.
Jesus is speaking here, and talking to one of the churches, at that time and addressing that they should seek his counsel to buy from HIM, gold fired by fired, that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, and the shame of (not having Christ) of your nakedness may not be revealed, and with eye-salve anoint your eyes that you may see.
Some other scriptures to check out are (Isiah 55:1; Matthew 13:44; Matthew 25:9), which to me indicated that all people have an individual choice to seek out the things of God, and to make their choice to either follow the Lord Jesus Christ or not, from what I understand it is Jesus who is able to heal the blind, deaf, dumb, brokenhearted, sick with-in the heart of the individual.
(Just realize that I am a man who is fallible - Be encouraged to read and study the scriptures and may you be guided in the right direction by our Father in heaven, by and through the spirit in Christ)
2Co 5:1 For we have known that if the tent of our earthly house may be thrown down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands—perpetual—in the heavens,
Paul having addressed Jesus and the Light of Christ’s Gospel proceeds to move forward in once coming to the light and knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ goes on to talk about how, if the tent of our earthly house (tabernacle) may be thrown down (destroyed), that he affirms we have a building from God, a house not made with hands - perpetual - in the heavens.
First let us address the tent of our earthly house - are there any scriptures that can add emphasis? Lets look at what Job wrote,
Job 4:19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
Job 4:20 From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
What is founded here in Job is that - as human beings we are inhabitants of the houses of clay that is to say our bodies, whose foundation is dust (earthly); and we bruise and decay as the moth can destroy things, similarly to rust. From morning to evening, these bodies are beaten down; With any regarding them, they end up perishing forever meaning this body dies. There is no stopping death.
Paul is encouraging the Corinthians however, though we live in these earthly bodies, and they are destroyed. We have a building from God, a house that is not made with human hands.
Paul wrote in the previous chapter 2Co 4:7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us;
2Co 4:8 being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
2Co 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 at all times carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,
We have a treasure in these bodies, and what that treasure is the (Heavenly) Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life of Jesus in and through his death burial and resurrection may be outwardly expressed through faith. Though this earthly body it may go through all types of different trials it is always being carried around by those who are believers in faith.
In the 2 letter Peter wrote, we see him write this,
2Pe 1:13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tent, to stir you up in reminding [you],
2Pe 1:14 having known that the laying aside of my tent is soon, even as our Lord Jesus Christ also showed to me.
This tent, the earthly body, this old man / made new in Christ - is to be laid aside and the Spirit that lives with-in us, is there with-in us being carried around as believers in faith of the life of Jesus whom died, was buried and raised again in which you too are raised to newness of life, when one dies with Christ, buried with Christ, and raised to new life in Christ.
2Co 5:2 for also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves with our dwelling that is from Heaven,
Paul goes on stating, for also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves with our dwelling that in is from Heaven. Paul is addressing the nature and state that all people tend to be in even as believers groans in which one desires to get rid of this body and to inhabit the new spiritual body which God himself will give to all people at the end of this life, that is able to dwell in the Heavenly realm with God.
Lets look at what Paul mentioned in His Letter to the Romans,
Rom 8:22 for we have known that all the creation groans together, and travails in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only [so], but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, expecting adoption—the redemption of our body;
Paul does not mention only believers here, but indeed the creation and all of it groans together, and travails in pain together, even now today. Those who are awaiting and expecting adoption (the obtaining of the new heavenly creation), is what they are waiting on in which they leave this world behind in which is all in Gods timing. (2 Corinthians 5:4)
2Co 5:3 if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we will not be found naked,
Paul writes to the Corinthians, even though we are growing and desire to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, in that it be that we are not founded naked, but are indeed clothed in Christ.
Lets look at some other scripture from John who wrote Revelation,
Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold fired by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and with eye-salve anoint your eyes, that you may see.
Jesus is speaking here, and talking to one of the churches, at that time and addressing that they should seek his counsel to buy from HIM, gold fired by fired, that you may be rich, and white garments that you may be clothed, and the shame of (not having Christ) of your nakedness may not be revealed, and with eye-salve anoint your eyes that you may see.
Some other scriptures to check out are (Isiah 55:1; Matthew 13:44; Matthew 25:9), which to me indicated that all people have an individual choice to seek out the things of God, and to make their choice to either follow the Lord Jesus Christ or not, from what I understand it is Jesus who is able to heal the blind, deaf, dumb, brokenhearted, sick with-in the heart of the individual.