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sralks sprour up, wirh grains of whear
growing. The new grains are nor che
same parricle of marrer as che grain
planred - bur wheac seeds sprouc
WHEAT,
and noc oacs- cvery seed irs
own kind of body.
Likewise che resurrecred body will
nor be che
same
body, or che exacr
same marrer rhar was bmicd - or
rhar was crcmared. Though nor che
same body, ir will be idcnrical. This
passage conrinues
w
show rhar rhere
are differenc kinds of flesh - of men,
of beasrs, of fishes, of birds. "There
are also celestial bodics, and bodies
rerresrrial: bur rhc glory of che celes–
tial is one, and che glory of che rer–
resrrial is anorher" (verse
-10).
Then che passage conrinues ro
show what che resurrecred bodies of
rhose who are Christ's - rhose in
whom is dwelling God's Holy Spirir
(Romans
8:9, ll) -
will be like. The
language is clearer in che Molfatt
rranslarion:
"So wirh rhe resurrecrion of rhc
dcad: whar is sown is mortal. whar
rises is immorral; sown inglorious, ir
rises in glory; sown in weakncss. ir
rises in power; sown an animare [nat–
ural] body, ir rises a spiricual body''
(verses
42-44) .
Conrinue, in rhe Auchori1.ed Ver–
sien:
"And so ir is wriccen, The Ílrsc man
Adam was made a living soul; rhe lasr
Adam (Chrisr] was madc a guick–
ening spirit" (Moffau: ··a life-giving
Spirir"). " ... The firsc man is of che
earrh, earrby" - rhar is ro say, rhe
soul is of che earth, earrhy - not
spirit. " ... che second man is che
Lord from heaven. As is rhc earrhy,
such are rhey also rhat are carrhy: and
as is rhe hcavenly, such are rhey also
rhar are heavenly. And as we have
borne che image of che earthy, we
shall also bear che image of che heav–
enly." Moffart rranslares ir: "Thus, as
we have borne rhe likcness of marerial
Man."
Those who are Christ's (Romans
8:9)
will be resurrecred, ar che rime of
PLAIN TRUTH August 1972
Chrisr's rerurn in power and glory ro
earrh, immorral, composed of
SPIRIT.
Those in che "Great Whire
Throne" resurrecrion (Revelarion
20:11-12
and Ezekiel
37:4-6, ll-13)
will rise morral, as rhey wcre beforc
- human - of rhe earrh - <:arrhy.
Then (Ezekicl
37: 13-14)
God will
give rhem His Holy Spirit, and rhey,
roo, shall receivc God's gifr of erernal
life.
Now, remember we covered
( 1
Corinrhians
15:38)
how rhar,
when a grain of whear is planrcd. che
new planes rhar spring up are nor rhe
samc grain rhar was planred, bur rhey
ARE EXACTLY THE SAME KIN[) -
they
are whear, nor oars or sorne orher
grain.
The Biblical revclarion makcs plain
rhc facr rhar, in rhe resurrccrion, we
shall look exacdy as we do in rhis life.
The resurrecred body will be idenrical
in every way. For examplc, Chrisr said
ro rhe hypocrirical Pharisecs: ''There
shall be weeping and gnashing of
ceerh. when ye shall see Abraham, and
Isaac, and Jacob, and all che prophers,
in rhe kingclom of God, and you
yourselves rhrusc our' ' (Luke
13:28).
Those there wilJ be
RECOGNIZED.
Spirir of Man
Like a Mold
There is rhc old saying, "You can'r
cake ir wirh you when you die.'' You
may drive yourself relenrlcssly ro piJe
up a financia! forrune.
Bm
you'll
]cave ir all behind, when you die.
There is, howcvcr, somerhing far
more valuablc in life - and you
CAN
TAKE IT \X'ITH YOU,
when )'OU die.
And rhar is
a
righreous spiricual
CIIARACTER
rhar God che Master Por–
ter wanrs ro fashion and shape and
dcvelop in us.
In rhe resurrccrion, you nor only
will look jusr like
you
do in chis life,
you will havc che same knowlcdge
you had in rhis Ji fe - and rhc same
characrer, goocl or bacl.
Now how is al! rhar possible?
Ir seems quite simple. once you
undersrand. I will give you an anal–
ogy.
Bl.'tween che Hall of Adminis–
rrarion and che Srudenr Cenrer bu ild–
ing on our Pasadena campus of
Ambassador Collcge is a beauriful
founrain,
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feer high. Ir is a bronzc
sculprure of five graceful, huge egrc.:rs,
whceling in nighr around a jer of
water.
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r was designed and sculprured
by David Wynne of London.
Acrually, ir had ro be made of many
picces, each rarher large, shipped, and
chcn pur rogerher on our campus.
This famo.us sculpror formec.l ir
originally of plasrer.
I
saw ir before ir
Jefe his London srudio, fully assem–
blcd, made of a whire plasrer. La ter,
1
saw ir in ics various pieces or parrs, in
a London foundry. For example, the
wingspread of <.-ach large egrer is
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fcer,
so
each wing was case separatel)' ·
This was done by making a sand
mold of each pare at rhe foundry.
In
m
each was poured molren bronze.
The bronze pares were shippcd
ro
Pasadena and assembled and welded
rogerher. Resulr: a beauriful bronze
sculprure, of precisely rhe same form
and shape as che original plascer
modc.:l, only now composed of a dif–
fercnr material - b<."::uriful. hard, and
enduring bronzc. This is mcrcly an
analogy. nor an exacr comparison in
all rcspecrs - for we have ro rhink of
rhe spirir of man as performing the
samc funcrion as che sand mold,
though differenr from ir.
Memory Recorded in
Spirit
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hope rhar tllusrrarion gaves
undersranding of how ir is possiblc
rhar, rhough
a
human body rhar once
livcd disinregrares, decomposes. or is
cremared and scaccc.:red ro rhe four
winds. rhe spirir preserves irs form,
shapc, memOf)'. char.tcrer. Thc rcsur–
recred body will be precisely
iike
it,
rhough composed of somerhing dif–
fcrcnr. In Philippians
3:20-2L
ir
sp(.~aks
of Chrisr's coming in power
and glory, ·'who shall change our vilc
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