Question for Church-Goers (any demonination)

J-man

J-man

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When do you think Christians, upon death, receive their new Heavenly bodies? Some think immediately after death, others (like me) think not until the 2nd coming at the end of days when they meet Him in the air. I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts on this topic so I can help someone in need of comfort and peace. I've already read several verses from the Bible.
 
Most say later, I think, but I neither know nor care. (It's part of that whole eschatology thing that just doesn't interest me.) But as to comfort and peace, I don't see how when the body is transformed relates. The Bible says when we are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord. Period. We don't experience death as we think of death...we take one breath here, and the next with Him.
 
I actually don't care.

But, I do care that so many different Christians differ on the answer to this, and they have Biblical references for it.
 
I haven't really even thought about it. The area of focus for me, as Mei Lan mentioned, is that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
 
We'll receive our glorified bodies when Christ returns.

The dead in Christ will rise first, as we are told by 1 Corinthians 15:23, and 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Then those that are saved, and still alive when Christ returns, will be caught up in the air, according to 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Then our bodies will be transformed. "Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is." - 1 John 3:2. (Italics my own, for emphasis)


As I've said before, I am no expert, but I do love eschatology. :love
 
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