The Final Evolution Of Man Is Instantaneous.
By Kosherboy In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.Corinthians 15
We also gather From the Hebrew test and account of Creation, that all species came from the water and evolved instantly not through Millions of years but instantaneous evolution and instantaneous extinction as the Creator saw fit.
First Evolution For The Dead:
When we deal with the nature of Jesus" resurrected body as He explained it to His disciples, we understand that it was a physical body and not a spiritual body. He proved it by eating broiled fish and a honeycomb in their presence! "Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have." (Luke 24:39) I agree that He presented Himself to the disciples in a physical, corporeal, body after His resurrection. Further, I do believe that the body of Jesus that suffered on the cross is that same body that the disciples saw up until His ascension. It was not a spiritual presence; it was His actual physical body.
But it is important to ask whether or not Jesus" resurrected body was also His glorified body. Many assume that it was, but do not say why. I believe that the Scriptures teach that the body in which Jesus was crucified was the same body that came out of the grave, but that the body in which He now dwells is one that was changed or transformed.
Here I must appeal to the word of God to clarify our understanding of this subject. I would agree that He now exists in His glorified body, but I must insist from the Scriptures that it is not of the same essence that was crucified, buried, raised and ascended. It was changed after His ascent to the Father, as I shall demonstrate below.
First, I do not deny that the body that Jesus had from birth to death was a physical, mortal, perishable, natural body. It was also that same body that was raised from the grave at the resurrection that Sunday morning. But I believe that at some point after that, His resurrected body was changed into a glorified state.
Let"s begin with the period of time after His resurrection, but before His ascension. On these occasions, there were times when He was immediately recognized (Matt. 28:9-10; Mark 16:14). At other times He was not (Luke 24:13-31; John 20:14). He says He is "bone and flesh" (Luke 24:39) and He ate food (Luke 24:42-43).
His ability to vanish from sight is interesting (Luke 24:31), but we cannot conclude that this was caused by a change in the nature of His physical body after the resurrection. Before His crucifixion, He was able to walk on water (John 6:19) and pass through hostile crowds untouched (Luke 4:39-40). What"s the difference? My conclusion thus far is that we have no reason to doubt that Jesus" body that went into the grave is the same body that came out of the grave with no appreciable change, not even decay (Acts 2:27).
Fortunately, the Scripture is not silent as to when the change( evolved) into glorification took place. We have the inspired record of Jesus appearing on multiple occasions after His ascension. Was the body of His post-ascension appearances similar to or different from His post-resurrection/pre-ascension body? Here are some observations and questions that relate to this.
1. Paul declares that Christ appeared to Him and that he had seen the Lord (I Cor. 9:1; 15:8). What was His appearance then and how does it compare to His post-resurrection/pre-ascension appearances?
In Acts 9:3-4, we have this account: "As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"" This was definitely Jesus (v. 5).
In v. 17, we are told that this was ""the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came"" Here was a post-ascension appearance by Jesus in which there is no mention of a "bodily" appearance. The only physical manifestations mentioned were a bright "light from heaven" and a voice. Before one says that Paul did not see Christ"s appearance because of his blindness, consider that those who were with him were not blinded and it is said they witnessed the appearance of Christ as a "light" (Acts 22:9).
If Jesus had a physical, corporeal body which He will inhabit when He comes a second time, why did He not reveal Himself with this to Paul on the road to Damascus? Was He saving His physical body for later? Or, could it be that His physical body had been changed into its glorious essence by this time?
2. I Tim. 6:16 describes Jesus as He "who alone possesses immortality." Reason with me on this: Was His body before the crucifixion mortal or immortal? It had to be mortal (able to die), because if it wasn"t, how could He have died for our sins? Is the body He possesses now (at the time Paul wrote 1 Timothy) mortal (able to die) or immortal (able not to die)? It has to be immortal since the inspired word says so. Conclusion: Jesus" body was changed.
We need to remember that before the cross Jesus" bodily form, while perfectly human and physical, according to Heb. 10:5 was especially "a body You have prepared for Me." It was not a mortal body in the exact same sense as our mortal bodies. There was both continuity and discontinuity here. Only Jesus, who was sinless, was promised that His body would not see corruption (Ps. 16:10; Acts 2:27 & 13:35) as distinct from ours. No man could take His life from Him; only He had the power to lay it down and take it again (John 10:17-18. But we, unlike Jesus, are not only "able to die" but "destined to die" because of our sin. Jesus before the cross was "able not to die," but He was not yet in a bodily form that was "not able to die." After the ascension, it seems that his bodily form was "changed" so that in heaven He does now have a bodily form that is "not able to die. When we speak of Jesus" bodily form as "able to die" (hence the cross), we are in no way taking away from His deity or glory of His Person as the Son of God.
Further, if He were to return in a mortal (as defined above), unchanged body, He could be subject to death again and this we know could not happen. My point here is that somewhere along the way (I believe after His ascension) the bodily form of Jesus was changed in its glory and nature; from mortal to immortal, from weakness to power, from natural to spiritual. It was the self-same body but changed in its bodily form, with no change in the glory of His Person, in order to dwell in heaven.
3. Do we not find in 1 Cor. 15:51-52 a clear statement of the nature of the resurrection as involving change? Certainly, the bulk of the chapter deals with the resurrection of our bodies, but there is also continuity with the body of Jesus, in that it, too, was changed. ""flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God"(vs. 50); hence, the need for change.
Please note this very carefully: I am not denying that Christ has a body. I am affirming that it is a "body of glory" that He did not possess before His crucifixion and ascension. Neither is I affirming that our resurrection will be bodiless! I believe that the resurrection does indeed involve the saints receiving new bodies (1 Cor. 15:37-38) " new, immortal, imperishable, spiritual bodies (vs. 42-49) " changed in nature from the bodies we now have.
4. The appearance of Jesus to John on Patmos certainly bears out the idea of a change in bodily form, appearance and nature (Rev. 1:12-17). This description bears no resemblance to the appearances found at the end of the Gospels and beginning of Acts. Further, the reaction of John, who was a witness to His resurrection and ascension, was much different from the reaction to the appearance of His beloved Savior in His glory. Jesus" bodily form was changed!
So Will we in the Resurrection and or the Transformation, will be changed (Evolve) to a different Body;
1 st Cor.15
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it adie:
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, ait may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 aThere are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the bcelestial is one, and the glory of the cterrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the asun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the bstars: for one star different from another star in dglory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in acorruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in aglory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a anatural body; it is raised a bspiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The afirst man bAdam was made a living soul; the last cAdam was made a dquickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not afirst which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1st Thessalonians 4
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Deut 30:4 Matt 24:31
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The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. Zephaniah 1:14
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The Final Evolution
