“A resurrection body”
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
We know that while Jesus lived on earth, His was a mortal body just like ours, and that body died. At His resurrection, He came out of the tomb in this new type of body, often called a “resurrection body.” This body was quite different from His old one and yet in many ways the same. He was instantly recognized as a man, but it wasn’t apparent to those that saw Him that He was the resurrected Jesus.
In His resurrected state, he wasn’t immediately recognizable. Some of His disciples walked alongside Him on a road for seven miles and didn’t catch on that it was Him.
He vanished in one account and then, He had the ability to appear in a room where the door was closed. Once again, though, He looked different, and this time they thought He was a ghost; He had to show them His wounds to convince them that He was who He said He was.
Yet the most amazing thing about this body is that it is immortal, and so will our resurrection bodies be: “So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. … When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:42, 54).
Imagine life in an immortal body. Just think of the possibilities![1]
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[1] Anchor Our Future Bodies
