When someone asks how the dead will be raised and what kind of body we will be getting, they should be informed that Christ has explained in His Word that God will give us a new body. Human beings have a very different type of body from the animals, fish, birds, and plants. The human body is the only body that will live on eternally, while the other bodies will not.
When Jesus Christ returns to take us to heaven, we will receive a new body. Whether we are alive at the time of his coming or dead, we will both receive a similar type of body.
In Christ we are all made alive. What we sow doesn't come to life unless it dies. Just as a seed of wheat or corn dies in order to become a fruitful plant. The body that is sown is perishable but when it is raised it will never perish. When this new body comes to life it will be an eternal, spiritual body.
However we shall not all sleep...or die. But we shall all still be changed in the twinkling of an eye--so fast that a human blinking will miss it. At the sound of the last trumpet, the dead will be raised and we will all enter heaven changed.
Thanks be to God. He gives us the victory.
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