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Pamphlet #4017
My note: Resurrection of both the just and the unjust. Ref. Acts 24:15
When our flesh (natural) body dies we are all given spiritual bodies.
Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
This is our change into our celestial bodies when our terrestrial body dies, it is not not our resurrection into immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised
up? and with what body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except
it die:
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that
shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every
seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of
flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of
birds.
But not all men's bodies are
made up of flesh and blood.
40 There are also celestial bodies,
and bodies terrestrial: but
the glory of the celestial is
one, and the glory of the terrestrial
is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star
in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; 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 a spiritual body.
But when our flesh (natural)
body dies we are all given spiritual bodies. Everyone
of us, both the saved and the unsaved.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which
is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the
Lord from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48 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.
If still alive in our flesh
bodies at Christ's return we will also be changed into our spiritual bodies.
Remember,
we are talking about bodies here, not souls!
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but
we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
That is not to say we will have
become immortal. We will just be given a spirit body that's incorruptible
but not necessarily immortal.
53 For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and
this mortal must put on immortality.
Two separate happenings:
First,
our flesh body is changed to a spirit body either at Christ's return or
when we die in the flesh, whichever happens first.
Second,
some
of us will be granted eternal life/immortality at Christ's return (The
First Resurrection) and some
of us must wait until after the 1000 year Millennium when at the Great
White Throne of Judgment we will either be granted eternal life/immortality
(The
Second Resurrection) or eternal
death which is to perish and be no
more, for God is a consuming fire.
Now we have changed the topic of discussion
from bodies to souls!
54 So when (#1)
this
corruptible (body) shall have put on
incorruption, and ( #2) this
mortal (soul) shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed
up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the
law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your
labour is not in vain in the Lord.
That's how I see! How
about you?
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