Apostle Paul emphasized that the body type of the world to come will be a "spiritual body". That is the body type of the future resurrection.
But what kind of body is that?
Matt 22:29-30
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
KJV
The blind Sadducees tried to trap Lord Jesus with their story of the woman who had seven husbands, and in the resurrection which one would she be married to. They clearly do not understand the Power of God, nor about the future resurrection and world to come. They, like many today, dwell in their fleshy mind, in spiritual blindness, and cannot grasp matters of The Spirit.
1 Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to Him That is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
KJV
The Gospel was preached by Christ Jesus at His resurrection to those 'dead', so they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but LIVE according to God IN THE SPIRIT. In what... "spirit"? What did Apostle Peter mean by that?
It's like what Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 showed, that at death of our flesh body it goes back to the earthly elements where it came from, but our 'spirit' goes back to God Who gave it. Per John 4:24 "God is a Spirit". So God's Word is pointing to TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF EXISTENCE with that. Our flesh body is of this material earthly dimension. But our 'spirit' with 'soul' is of that other dimension of Spirit from GOD.
This ain't about some ghost body. Our spirit body is not... a ghost. But it is not material flesh from the earth either. What is it then?
It is a "spiritual body" like Apostle Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15, the "image of the heavenly"...
1 Cor 15:48-50
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
KJV
How can we understand per God's Word, just what that future "spiritual body", "image of the heavenly", is really like? Easy, like Jesus said, those of the resurrection are AS THE ANGELS OF GOD IN HEAVEN. What does that mean exactly?
Well, the "three men" which appeared at Abraham's tent door in Genesis 18, and Abraham bowed to one of them and called him "Lord", and then prepared food and drink for them, which they did eat, reveals what about that spirit body?
When the two angels went to Lot per Genesis 19, and the sodomites outside Lot's house saw them as 'men', and wanted to have sex with them, how did they have that image of man if those two angels were in spirit angelic bodies?
How was Lord Jesus, after His resurrection, able to suddenly appear out of nowhere to His disciples in a closed off room, without entering the door like our flesh body requires? Jesus even ate a piece of fish and honeycomb that His disciples gave Him. And another time, His disciples were at supper and Jesus suddenly appeared right in the midst of them, and then later disappeared. Flesh cannot do that.
Thus the spiritual body can... eat man's food, and live upon this earth, and has the image of man which originates from God's Own Image Likeness per Genesis 1:26-27. Yet it still is not a body of flesh, but a body made up of spirit, that other dimension of the heavenly.
The spiritual body doesn't feel hot or cold, doesn't get sick or age, and for the unsaved can only be destroyed by God with casting it into the future "lake of fire" at the "second death".
Now in 2 Corinthians 5, Apostle Paul shows that we already have that other spirit body, that if our earthly house (flesh body) were suddenly dissolved, we still have another body not made with hands, from God, eternal in the heavens...
2 Cor 5:1-2
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
KJV
That "building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens", is about the "spiritual body" that Paul taught of in the 1 Corinthians 15 chapter. It is the spirit body that Apostle Peter was pointing to of the "spirits in prison" which Jesus went and preached The Gospel to at His resurrection. It is the spirit body that will be revealed when our flesh is cast off, either at death or on the day of the change at Christ's future coming. YOU ALREADY HAVE THAT SPIRIT BODY INSIDE YOUR FLESH. That is one of the greatest mysteries Apostle Paul revealed in that 2 Corinthians 5 chapter.
So what is all that talk of men's false doctrine that when we die we remain literally asleep in the ground with our decaying flesh body, waiting for Jesus to come and raise up our flesh and soul out of the casket or tomb? That is an old... tradition from the Jews, an ancient tradition. They believe our old flesh body is going to be raised and made a new flesh body again. Not per God's Word, or Jesus and His Apostles would have lied to us and never shown about the spirit body type, the "image of the heavenly", a body type "as the angels of God in heaven."
But what kind of body is that?
Matt 22:29-30
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
KJV
The blind Sadducees tried to trap Lord Jesus with their story of the woman who had seven husbands, and in the resurrection which one would she be married to. They clearly do not understand the Power of God, nor about the future resurrection and world to come. They, like many today, dwell in their fleshy mind, in spiritual blindness, and cannot grasp matters of The Spirit.
1 Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to Him That is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
KJV
The Gospel was preached by Christ Jesus at His resurrection to those 'dead', so they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but LIVE according to God IN THE SPIRIT. In what... "spirit"? What did Apostle Peter mean by that?
It's like what Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 showed, that at death of our flesh body it goes back to the earthly elements where it came from, but our 'spirit' goes back to God Who gave it. Per John 4:24 "God is a Spirit". So God's Word is pointing to TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF EXISTENCE with that. Our flesh body is of this material earthly dimension. But our 'spirit' with 'soul' is of that other dimension of Spirit from GOD.
This ain't about some ghost body. Our spirit body is not... a ghost. But it is not material flesh from the earth either. What is it then?
It is a "spiritual body" like Apostle Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 15, the "image of the heavenly"...
1 Cor 15:48-50
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
KJV
How can we understand per God's Word, just what that future "spiritual body", "image of the heavenly", is really like? Easy, like Jesus said, those of the resurrection are AS THE ANGELS OF GOD IN HEAVEN. What does that mean exactly?
Well, the "three men" which appeared at Abraham's tent door in Genesis 18, and Abraham bowed to one of them and called him "Lord", and then prepared food and drink for them, which they did eat, reveals what about that spirit body?
When the two angels went to Lot per Genesis 19, and the sodomites outside Lot's house saw them as 'men', and wanted to have sex with them, how did they have that image of man if those two angels were in spirit angelic bodies?
How was Lord Jesus, after His resurrection, able to suddenly appear out of nowhere to His disciples in a closed off room, without entering the door like our flesh body requires? Jesus even ate a piece of fish and honeycomb that His disciples gave Him. And another time, His disciples were at supper and Jesus suddenly appeared right in the midst of them, and then later disappeared. Flesh cannot do that.
Thus the spiritual body can... eat man's food, and live upon this earth, and has the image of man which originates from God's Own Image Likeness per Genesis 1:26-27. Yet it still is not a body of flesh, but a body made up of spirit, that other dimension of the heavenly.
The spiritual body doesn't feel hot or cold, doesn't get sick or age, and for the unsaved can only be destroyed by God with casting it into the future "lake of fire" at the "second death".
Now in 2 Corinthians 5, Apostle Paul shows that we already have that other spirit body, that if our earthly house (flesh body) were suddenly dissolved, we still have another body not made with hands, from God, eternal in the heavens...
2 Cor 5:1-2
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
KJV
That "building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens", is about the "spiritual body" that Paul taught of in the 1 Corinthians 15 chapter. It is the spirit body that Apostle Peter was pointing to of the "spirits in prison" which Jesus went and preached The Gospel to at His resurrection. It is the spirit body that will be revealed when our flesh is cast off, either at death or on the day of the change at Christ's future coming. YOU ALREADY HAVE THAT SPIRIT BODY INSIDE YOUR FLESH. That is one of the greatest mysteries Apostle Paul revealed in that 2 Corinthians 5 chapter.
So what is all that talk of men's false doctrine that when we die we remain literally asleep in the ground with our decaying flesh body, waiting for Jesus to come and raise up our flesh and soul out of the casket or tomb? That is an old... tradition from the Jews, an ancient tradition. They believe our old flesh body is going to be raised and made a new flesh body again. Not per God's Word, or Jesus and His Apostles would have lied to us and never shown about the spirit body type, the "image of the heavenly", a body type "as the angels of God in heaven."
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