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 arain, 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. All flesh is not the same flesh: but here is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of stars: for one star differenth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour; 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. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Noq this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruptioninherit incorruption. :angel:
Yes, we will have spiritual bodies. God has promised every saved person a new and very much improved body. Christians will receive their new bodies at the Rapture.
Philippians 3:21
[Jesus Christ] who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body:waving:.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed :angel:... For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put immortality...
And if Christ :waving:be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit:angel: is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you:angel:, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. - Rom 8:10,11
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some :angel:to everlasting life, and some:angeldevil: :devil:to shame and everlasting contempt. - Dan 12:2
So, we will look like Jesus. But who is He? How does He look like?
Look at Him here:
�And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face:glow: did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him� (Matthew 17.1-3 )
Revelation 1
Introduction and Benediction
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants�things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
Greeting the Seven Churches
4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed[a] us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings[b] and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
8 �I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,�[c] says the Lord,[d] �who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.�
Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John, both[e] your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord�s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, �I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,�[f] and, �What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia:[g] to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.�
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man:waving:, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire:hearts:; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun:glow: shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me,[h] �Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. 19 Write[i] the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw[j] are the seven churches.
"Shake yourself from the dust:excited:; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem" (Isaiah 52: 2)
"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake:excited:, some to everlasting life:angel:, and some to shame:angeldevil: and everlasting contempt:devil:" (Daniel 12:2; compare 1 Kings 16:2).
Paul says, "Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead:excited:, and Christ will give you light:glow:" (Ephesians 5: 14).
