ABSENT FROM THE BODY DOES NOT MEAN PRESENT WITH THE LORD....... The subject of 2 Cor.5:1-8 is not about dying and immediately being in the presence of the Lord. It is about a desire to be clothed with the spiritual body at Christs coming. If you read the verses preceding v.8, you will see the subject concerns resurrection and a longing not to suffer the naked state, but to be clothed in the glorious resurrection body at His coming, in the twinkling of an eye (1 Cor. 15:52). It has nothing to do with the Satan-generated lie of the immortal soul. It has to do with resurrection and a desire to escape the naked state (death) at His coming. Paul knew, that while he was in his mortal body, he would not be present with the Lord. 2Cor 5:6 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. It is obvious that hed rather be absent from that mortal body and present with the Lord. Paul, who was flesh and blood at that time, knew that could only happen in resurrection, when that mortal MUST put on immortality and when the corruptible MUST put on incorruptible. (1Cor.15:53,54) It is only Christ, dwelling in the light (heaven), who has immortality (1Tim.6:16). The saints, whose hope was the Kingdom on earth, will one day realize their hope in resurrected bodies from the grave (Hosea 13:14). I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction... (see also, 1Cor 15:55). “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:36:09 +0000
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