The Resurrection of the Body to Come
As the flesh wanes and we lose our strength, we may think upon the words of Tertullian. Our flesh, indeed, will rise. It will be reconstructed, indeed resurrected from the ground or sea or dust on the moon (post 20th century!)
He writes in book book V, chapter 10 of his treatise “Against Marcion” he writes of his expectation of the physical resurrection of the bodies of those who are being saved:
To administer poison is a crime, but the cup in which it is given is not guilty. So the body is the vessel of the works of the flesh, whilst the soul which is within it mixes the poison of a wicked act. How then is it, that the soul, which is the real author of the works of the flesh, shall attain to(10) the kingdom of God, after the deeds done in the body have been stoned for, whilst the body, which was nothing but (the soul’s) ministering agent, must remain in condemnation? Is the cup to be punished, but the poisoner to escape? Not that we indeed claim the kingdom of God for the flesh: all we do is, to assert a resurrection for the substance thereof, as the gate of the kingdom through which it is entered. But the resurrection is one thing, and the kingdom is another. The resurrection is first, and afterwards the kingdom. We say, therefore, that the flesh rises again, but that when changed it obtains the kingdom.
Yes, there will be a bodily resurrection. Your spirit, indeed, goes to be with God upon death, but that spirit will join again with your body – wherever it is and in whatever form of dust and wherever scattered – and raised up with eternal stamina and power to live forever! That is what the Savior did for us! Thanks be to the Father and the Spirit for sending and guiding Him!
2-2 2022 meditation (Yeah! The second day of the second month in the twenty-second year of the twentieth of February of the twenty-first century.)
MBray
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