Philippians 3:21 (KJV) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
To be like Him even as He is our physical mortal & corruptible body shall become immortal & incorruptible as God only now is! That's what Paul means when he says Christ will change our vile body of death to be fashioned like HIs glorious body that shall never die, never grow old, sick or weary, and never again sin. That does not mean our flesh becomes a spirit body.
Paul could not have made it any more plain to understand.
1 Corinthians 15:42-46 (WEB)
42
So also is the
{{{{{Resurrection of the Dead}}}}}.
The
body is sown perishable; it is
raised imperishable.
43 It is
sown in dishonor; it is
raised in glory.
It is
sown in weakness; it is
raised in power.
44 It is
sown a {{
{natural body}}}; it is
raised a {{{spiritual body}}}.
There is a
{{{natural body}}} and there is
also a {{{spiritual body}}}.
45 So also it is written, “The
first man, Adam, became {{{a living soul}}}.”
The
last Adam became a
{{{life-giving spirit.
}}}
46 However
{{{that which is spiritual isn’t first}}}, but {{{
that which is natural}}},
{{{then}}} {{{that which is spiritual.
}}}
In our present earthly bodies we are living souls.
What we will become AFTER the Resurrection of the Dead, are spirits living in
spiritual bodies, like unto Christ Jesus' spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:45-46 (WEB)
45 So also it is written, “The
first man, Adam, became {{{a living soul}}}.”
The
last Adam became a
{{{life-giving spirit.
}}}
46 However
{{{that which is spiritual isn’t first}}}, but {{{
that which is natural}}},
{{{then}}} {{{that which is spiritual.
}}}
Philippians 3:21 (KJV) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his {{{glorious}}} body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Then why do you not accept what Paul is saying in this passage. There will be a resurrection of the DEAD, not the living!
At the time of the rapture, those who are dead will be resurrected, and those who are still alive will be changed, all at the same time, in a moment, in the twinkling of the eye. That is the 1st resurrection.
Yes, there is only one period of time likened to a thousand years.
There is no reason to believe that the 1000 years is figurative.
In addition, the
thousand-year reign of Christ on earth occurs
after the
Battle of Armageddon but
before the eternal state when God creates a
new heaven and a new earth.
Revelation 20:6 (WEB) This
is the
first resurrection. Blessed and holy
is he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but
they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with him a thousand years.
After the 1000 year reign, Satan is released one last time to deceive the nations, but Satan is thrown into the Lake of Fire, and all the nations surrounding Israel, and Christ's Kingdom are all destroyed.
Revelation 20:7-8 (WEB) 7 And
after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
During the
thousand-year reign of Christ on earth with His holy ones,
the old nations are still existing, and there are still people on earth who were not destroyed after that wrath of God was poured out, and the Battle of Armageddon already was completed.
Revelation 20:2-3 (WEB) 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
That means that the 1000 yr reign occurs:
AFTER the Battle of Armageddon.
AFTER God pours out his wrath.
AFTER the 1st Resurrection occurs.
The Thousand Year Reign of Christ is a time AFTER the Battle of Armageddon, in which Christ will rule the nations with a rod of iron.
Revelation 19:15 (WEB) 15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it
he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. [
Psalm 2:9] He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
After Armageddon, Christ will rule on the earth, and
those of the nations who survived the wrath of God's judgment will still be living on the earth.
Zechariah 12:9-21 (WEB)
9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one. 10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. 11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. 12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. 13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will each hold onto the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
15 A plague like this will fall on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the animals that will be in those camps. 16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths. 17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up, and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths. 20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
