Does the Bible give us any indication of what our resurrected body is supposed to be like?
Philippians 3:20-21 – 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
It says that the Lord Jesus Christ will transform our lowly current body to be like His glorious body.
When is this supposed to happen?
1 John 3:2-3 – 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
When does the Church have Christ appear to them?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
So even though to be absent from the body is to be present in the Lord, the dead will still meet the Lord in the air. When is this? At the Rapture. That is when the Church that is still living meets the Lord when he appears.
It’s at that time our bodies become like His glorious body. The perishable will put on imperishable.
1Corinthians 15:52-54 – 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
What was the glorious body of Jesus like? We know He had the power to appear at will.
John 20:19 – 19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
He also appeared for Thomas a week later in a locked room. So the body will be able to disappear and appear, yet it isn’t a ghostly body.
Luke 24:37-39 – 37They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Just after this happened, we find out that this body will also be able to eat.
Luke 24:40-42 40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate it in their presence.
This should not surprise us. How else would we be able to enjoy the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:9 –9Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
This body is dying. This world is getting worse and becoming more evil as the Day of the Lord draws nearer. Invest into your future. You are everyday, one way or another.