WITH WHAT BODY?
"But someone will be protesting, 'how are the dead being raised, and with what body are they coming, imprudent one." was Paul's answer. 1 Corinthians 15:35. Literal Greek UNDISPOSED ONE, Not behaving with forethought, unwise in conduct. Many today are perplexed with the thought of resurrection. The ignorance on this subject is due to the lack of reading the Scriptures belonging to the Ecclesia, and listening to wrong teaching. Mathew 22: 29.
Through Paul's epistles come the revelations concerning the Parenthetic Ecclesia in this secret economy. " what you are sowing, you are not sowing THE BODY WHICH SHALL COME TO BE.." verse 37.
That is, the body you bury will NOT be the body which shall come to be. "And God gives IT a body according as He wills; to each of the seed it's own body. Verse 38
".. thus also is the resurrection of the dead" verse 42
Notice, the word IT, when reading verses 42-44. "IT is sown IN corruption; IT is roused IN
incorruption
In these three verses the word IT is mentioned 8 times, in the study of numbers in God's Word, number 8 is specially associated with Resurrection and Regeneration , and the beginning of a new era or order.
WHO OR WHAT IS IT?
IT disappears IN corruption, then, IT appears IN incorruption. According to the Bible, in the beginning God formed a body from the soil, breathed a spirit INTO it, and "man became a living soul". Genesis 2:7
"But there is a spirit IN man; and the breath, inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." Job 32:8,18.
Man is not A spirit ! He is a two part SPIRITUAL being, that is Spirit and Soul, and one part animal, natural flesh.
In death, we read ".. then shall the dust (body) RETURN to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall RETURN unto God WHO GAVE IT" Ecclesiastes 12:7., thus leaving the soul as NAKED. Now Paul says "if our terrestrial tabernacle house, should be DEMOLISHED (died), we have a BUILDING OF GOD, a house not made with hands, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS longing to be DRESSED in our habitation which is FROM heaven, if so be that, being DRESSED also, we shall not be FOUND NAKED". 2 Corinthians 5:1-5.
Therefore the IT is the ego, the person themselves, that is, the soul, which is a spiritual everlasting flame of desire! Which can only be satisfied with an unsatisfying satisfaction, in and by God, the Creator of the soul.
THE NEW BODY
"The first Adam was out of the earth, (soilish), and the second Man, is the Lord, OUT OF HEAVEN.." 1 Corinthians 15;47.
"And according as we (the soul) WEAR the image of the soilish body, we should be WEARING the image of the celestial." Verse 49. If we are IN CHRIST, the risen Lord, we wear, the image of the celestial, as He IS.
". Who will TRANSFIGURE the body of our humiliation, to CONFORM it to His glorious body." Philippians 3:21. The true believer, the new creation in CHRIST will be GIVEN a SPIRITUAL BODY OUT OF HEAVEN. 2 Corinthians 5:2. The dead in Christ will not come back to this corrupt earth to collect a recycled body. It is not like the Omnipotent Creator to recycle the condemned flesh. The Ecclesia is a new creation and is IN Christ.
"For as many as are immersed INTO Christ, in WHOM there is no Jew, not yet Greek, no slave, nor yet free, no male and female, for YOU are all ONE in Christ Jesus" Galatians 3:27,28.
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