"So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being; the last
Adam a life-giving spirit. The spiritual, however, was not the first, but
the natural, then the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth,
the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so also are those who
are of the earth; as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall
we bear the likeness of the heavenly man."
(1 Corinthians 15:45-49)
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in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown in a natural body; it
is raised in a spiritual body. What kind of a body will it be, this spiritual body?
Scripture gives the answer: "Who shall change our body of humiliation that it may be
fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able
even to subdue all this unto Himself?
"But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the
Lord Jesus Christ, Who by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself,
will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body."
(Philippians 3:20-21)
We shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
Now our blessed Lord was not raised from the dead with an ethereal, airy body.
He was a real human body of flesh and bones. He ate in the presence of His disciples;
He was able to take food, though He needed none. He was capable of passing through
closed doors and was no way limited by earthly conditions, such as space.
And even so will be the spiritual body of the risen believers.
Not a spirit phantom, but a spiritual body in its adaptation to the spirit. As we now have
a natural body which is suited for an earth-life, so the believer shall have a body suited
for a glory-life. We shall be like Him to be with Him in eternal glory and in these
wonderful bodies we shall rule and reign with Him."
-Gaebelein's Annotated Bible
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