Open line radio March 11, 2023 hour 1
Listener:
My question is very simple. When does a christian, a believer receives his glorified body?
Mike Fibarez:
That’s a great question and depends on where we are in the timeline, the eschatological timeline of what Jesus has taught and what the bible teaches is going to happen in the future. In other words, if I am alive and you are alive today, Caroline, our trust is in Christ, the minute Christ comes to get his Church and meet us in the air, the bible says we are going to be changed in the twinkling of an eye, as it says in 1Corinthians 15 and we will get our resurrected body at that point, if we happen to die before the rapture of the Church, then our bodies are going to be laid in the ground, our spirit is going to be with the Lord, to be absent from the body, present with the Lord, 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and we will have to awake with a disembodied state, our soul would be with Christ but we will wait for our resurrected bodies when the rapture of the Church takes place. So when that takes place, the experience may be for those who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, they get their bodies instantaneously, we get our resurrected bodies in a gap between that we die until the Father sends Christ to pick the Church up in the air. He’s coming for us at the rapture of the Church. Does that help, Caroline.
Caroline:
In Corinthians chapter 15, what is the scripture that support that?
Dr Mike Fabarez:
Well, that’s a couple of passages but it starts in verse 35, of 1Corinthians 15 but the part that speaks about the changing at the twinkling of an eye is found in verse 52 and here’s how it’s put, let me start in the context of verse 51, “behold, I tell you a mystery, Paul says, we shall not all sleep, of course it’s a euphemism for death, but we shall all be changed in a moment in a twinkling of eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable and we shall be changed, which is precisely what He told us over at 1Thessalonians, that we are going to, at the rapture of the Lord, 1Thessalonians chapter 4, those of us who remain at the coming of the Lord, this is 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 17, we will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and we are going to be changed, verse 16, the dead are going to be raised in Christ and we who are alive are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and according to 1Corinthians 15, we know we have to have our mortal bodies changed to an immortal body, so I hope that helps, Caroline.
Scripture:
1 Corinthians 15
A Glorious Body
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind [f]of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
40 There are also [g]celestial bodies and [h]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, 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. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made[i] of dust; the second Man is [j]the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the [k]man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we[l] shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a [m]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 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
-nkjv
1 Thessalonians 4
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are [d]asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. -nkjv
2 Corinthians 5
1 For we know that if our earthly [a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our [b]habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as [c]a guarantee.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. -nkjv
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