What is the resurrection body?

 

What is the resurrection body?

 

First, does resurrection mean the physical body received from parents comes back to life, or does resurrection occur spiritually?

Jesus Christ says, “He is the life that came down from heaven.” Regarding the word resurrection, from the perspective of the body, believers believe that the body is resurrected, but from the perspective of the spirit, the spirit is originally the life of heaven, but after being trapped in the earth for a while, the life of heaven is resurrected again. . Jesus Christ is the life of heaven, so his body died and he was resurrected as the life of heaven. Nevertheless, if a believer claims that the dead body has been resurrected, it is because he sees it with the eyes of the body.

In Luke 20:35-36, “But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:Neither can they die any more: for they are equal.” unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." And, Matthew 22:30 says, “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” Angels are spirits. So, resurrection means that the dead spirit returns to the spirit of life.

In John 20:24-25, “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.』

Thomas did not believe in the resurrection of Jesus. When Jesus appeared to his disciples, Thomas, who was called Didymus, was not there. Although the other disciples said, “We have seen the Lord,” Thomas could not accept “the words of his companions who said that the dead man who had been crucified and buried in a stone tomb appeared before their eyes.”

In John 20:26-27, “And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing..” However, in Luke 24:38, “And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled?” and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

Looking at this in the Greek Bible, 『αὐτός ψηλαφήσατέ με καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι πνεῦμα σάρκα καὶ ὀστέα οὐκ ἔχει καθὼς ἐμὲ θε ωρεῖτε θεωρεῖτε ἔχοντα』

To translate it again, “He touched me and saw that I was a spirit body, and I have no bones, just as I see you with bones.” What Thomas saw was not the nail marks and wound marks that were present when Jesus was dead, but those marks were transformed. It's a surprise to see him doing it. Likewise, the disciples, like Thomas, must have been surprised and delighted by the sight of such resurrection. The translated Bible is “translated as if Jesus had flesh and bones,” which can create the illusion in believers that “he has returned to his former body.” However, the resurrected body of Jesus is a spiritual body (πνεῦμα σάρκα pneuma sarca). And the resurrected body of Jesus has no bones. In other words, it is not a body like a person needs bones to move in this world.

There is a scene where Jesus brings dead people back to life. Jesus raised Lazarus, the son of the widow of Nain, and the daughter of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. If resurrection is like a dead person coming back to life, then since they have been resurrected, they must have a body that will never die. However, they are not resurrected bodies. Because Jesus clearly said that He is the first fruit of resurrection.

In 1 Corinthians 15:21-23, “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.』

Therefore, before Jesus was resurrected, no one was resurrected. John 3:13, 『And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.』 Who is the “one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man”? The phrase “came down from heaven” means that Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit through incarnation. Only Jesus, born of the Holy Spirit, is the first fruit of resurrection.

Apostle Paul says that the resurrected body is a spiritual body. In 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 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: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.』

A farmer sows seeds, but he sows the shape of the future. A farmer sows seeds “thinking that the seeds will bear fruit later.” The seed coat dies (disappears), and the germ inside it grows and changes into a different form.

1 Corinthians 15:42-44 『So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in corruption: It is sown in dishonour(Egeiretai); it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (Soma Pneumaticon). 』

En aftarsiya (ἐν φθορᾷ) means to arise in eternal life, and Egeiretai (ἐγείρεται) means to arise. The spirit arises in eternal life. Soma Pneumaticon is the body of the spirit. Resurrection tells us that it is not the physical body, but the spiritual body.』

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.』

In John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.』

Galatians 2:20 『I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.』

Like this, numerous Bible passages tell us that it is the resurrection of the spirit.

Second, is the resurrection of the saints in Christ a future resurrection that occurs after the death of the body, or is it a present resurrection?

In Romans 6:5, “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:” The union with his death occurs first, and then the union with his resurrection occurs. It is.

John 11:23-26 『Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever he liveth and believeth in me, he shall never die. Believest thou this?』

Martha's brother Lazarus died, and Martha said, "If Jesus had been in Martha's house, he would not have died." In chapter 11, verse 22, Martha answered, “But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.” So, Jesus said, “I will live again,” but Martha was thinking of “living again,” not in the present, but in the future, the last day after the death of the body, and the resurrection. What Jesus wants is present.

In John 11:23-26, Jesus says to Martha, “I am always the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though dead in spirit, is alive, and when his spirit is alive, he receives the gift of faith from heaven and lives forever.” He is saying, ‘You will not die.’ If you look at these words from the perspective of the flesh, it means, “Whoever believes in me physically will die, but he will come back to life someday, and whoever believes in me because his flesh lives will never die.” The sentence structure is very awkward. The Bible speaks of the spirit, but most believers think of it as the resurrection of the body.

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.』In these words, the saints die with the cross of Jesus and became those who are resurrected with Christ.

John 6:48-50 『I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.』

“The bread that comes down from heaven” means resurrection life, which allows people to eat and not die. What does not die is not physical, but has a spiritual meaning. It means being united with the resurrection of Christ and living eternally as a spiritual body.