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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our [immortal, eternal] celestial dwelling, |
Subject: Eternal in the Heavens |
Bible Note: 2 Cor 5 1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, 3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. 4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. While we will be resurrected in our own bodies, Job 19 25 "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. 26 "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; 27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! There is nonetheless a great qualitative difference. 1 Cor 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. These bodies were made for life on earth. 1 Cor 15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. They will be re-made for life in the eternal realm. 1 Cor 15:54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. This "building from God", these are not the "mansions" as some suppose. As Paul speaks of the tent, he speaks of our earthly body, and as Paul speaks of this building not made with hands, he speaks of our eternal body. Those who sleep in Christ have put off their earthly body, and await being clothed with their eternal body. Those in Christ who are raptured will put on their eternal body without having put off their heavenly body. While Job says that he will see God in his own flesh, and with his own eyes, yet there is a qualitative difference in that flesh, and those eyes, to the extend that they are said by Paul to be "not made with hands", i.e., a work of man, as the body we were born with, but made by God. Yes, it will be my body, but not this body. This body is made for earth, a tent, temporary and transient. I have a new body coming, a permanent home, eternal in the heavens. "For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." |