In the beginning was the word, and the word was in the beginning the voice of God in declaration of Jesus Christ as His only begotten Son. 2 Cor 4:6
The word of God, ready to be invested in humanity for the manifestation of Christ did not yet have a body at the beginning, but a body was reserved for Him in the womb of Eve at the beginning of all creation, when God created Adam in the image of His only begotten Son, and reserved a seed for Christ in the womb of Eve who was formed from Adam's earthly body as an adequate and equally created earthly helper for him.
Every creature that was created was made capable of reproduction after its own kind, Adam and Eve in like kind, after their earthly bodies, male and female in reproductive truth.
The God breathed eternal body of the Lord, an egg for which was reserved in Eve's womb, and potentially every virgin woman, from the beginning, was preordained and formed in initiation by the Spirit, and instantaneously breathed word of God, "this day I have begotten You" at the threshold of Elizabeth's house, and made, manifest a body like ours in the womb of Mary, so He could command us a body in immortality, just like His at the consummation.
Therefore, whoever is invested with life and body by the breath of God, and born again by the Spirit and testimony of Jesus Christ, is one body of bridal identity with the Lord, just as Eve was formed from Adam's earthly substance and became one with Adam in procreation.
We are a new creation, living in the same Spirit of communion with the Lord's substance of unique inheritance from the Father, in separation from Adam, joined in the same Spirit, with Jesus Christ for cohabitation with the Lord, first by His Holy Spirit abiding in us, and then in the greater body of immortality ready to be commanded over us, at the consummation.
We are formed in one body with the Lord, and supported from His heavenly substance of the Holy Spirit invested in us, and sustained with a blessed hope for our transformation in the body to immortality.
Even though Adam and Eve were breathed into with God's breath and became each an eternally living soul, they were created from the substance of the earth bodily and were never yet immortal; it was God's intention from the beginning to make us immortal through Jesus Christ.
The first of humanity, meaning Adam and Eve, and all who were saved in the promise of Christ before He appeared, shall be last in terms of the long-awaited change to immortality, but those who are alive and remain to His 2nd appearing will be the first simultaneously changed to the body of immortality in likeness and comparable to the Lord. Jesus is the initiation of the first resurrection by His ascension to the Kingdom from heaven, and the final word of change for all the saved of all humanity, at the end of all mortality [the body of death] and the environment that sustains it.
All of the redeemed will be changed bodily together, both of those who have already ascended without the body, and those who have remained on earth in the body to that moment; we will all be changed, and this is the first resurrection, and only resurrection for the righteous and our blessed hope.
The second resurrection is ordered for the wicked.
The wicked, as they are already reserved in wilful separation from the Lord by their own choice, at their death, are consciously retained in hell, while their body is decomposed in the grave; the separation of the eternally living soul and spirit from the body occurs at the death of every human being. From where in the case of the wicked, they are subsequently resurrected to eternal judgment of separation from the body and membership in the Lord in the resurrected body, and kept out of the new heaven and new earth, where there is only the righteous and fellowship dwelling with Jesus Christ, immortal like He is, forever.
This is called the second death judgment, the punishment of death in the resurrected body, reserved for the wicked at their resurrection.
Jesus delineates in His word, by the reference to the preservation of the eternally living soul, that survives the death of the body, by God's ordination, and Christ's own invested power, over the first death, and the second, so that for the believer, the eternally living soul is being consigned to heaven where He is.
The wicked are being retained in hell for the interim, from His first coming to the end.
He does this by mentioning in Matt 10:28 a joined eternally living soul with the body, by which the eternally living soul preserved in either heaven or hell, at that point of final judgement, has been rejoined to the body, by the resurrection of the body, in His narrative.
Therefore, He is stipulating also which resurrection He is referring to, as being the 2nd and final resurrection of all humanity, both those killed throughout history and those killed at His second appearing.
He specifically denotes in the book of Revelation that the believers who have participated in the first resurrection believing in Him, for the remission of sins, and the universal change to His likeness in the body of immortality when He appears, will not be hurt by the second death judgement in the resurrected body, therefore making a difference between the purpose of the first and the purpose and necessity of the second.
In other words, the Father will preserve the immortal in Christ, while dispatching the rest of the resurrected to the eternal lake of fire, along with death, hell, and the grave. The whole heavens and earth that housed and facilitated humanity in the body of death's existence will be destroyed. All mortality will be swallowed up by immortality.
It can be understood, therefore, to depict God's final judgment at the resurrection whereby the eternally living soul, while beforehand remained alive, [albeit in hell] by separation from the body by the first death, is rejoined to the body and cast into the lake of fire which is built for the containment of the wicked in the body of immortality after the resurrection.
Jesus says: "Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the [eternally living] soul; rather, fear Him [God The Father] who can destroy both soul and [the resurrected]body in hell [at the second level "death" of final punishment against the wicked] Hebrews 10:29
Therefore, when we talk about redemption in the body to immortality, we are talking about the original intention and advancing purpose of God for us, through the increasing Kingdom of Jesus Christ from heaven. Isaiah 9:7, 1Cor15:22
The power of Christ's resurrection and outpoured Spirit in the promise of the Father makes us one body with Him, by the promise of the Father that has been poured out from heaven, His Holy Spirit that is given to us, from heaven, in His name.
Christ invested in us the hope of glory in the redemption of the body to immortality. There is no other name given from heaven, whereby every equal created human being must acknowledge and call upon for salvation! Amen!
Let's pray: Father of Glory, fully and irreversibly invested without measure in the immortal Body of Jesus Christ, make us one with You, and one with Your only begotten and ever beloved Son, as we open the door of our hearts this very moment to receive Your emplanted word and Your Holy Spirit in the same truth!
Father, you stand ready to hear and to save when we call upon Your name. We say pour down from heaven, oh Lord Jesus, fill us with Your Holy Spirit of witness and testimony, create in us a right Spirit through being born again, forgive us and help us. Make us one with You and Your Father, and one with one another who have received and walk in the same truth, and in the blessed hope of redemption in the body to immortality at Your appearing to all, when Your glory is revealed bodily from heaven and at Your return to change us into Your likeness at the consummation.
Give us the greater grace, and instant expectation of greater things that You have preordained for us to walk in together as one body, one people, and one family as we receive understanding and power to express Your eternal plans and purposes for us revealed in Jesus Christ, may the reader say, with me, Amen!
To You alone we open up our hearts, Amen! Again, we say, Amen!
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