6.1.2a.1: The CURE for DEATH #2a.1; ONCE JESUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, JESUS’ HUMAN BODY BECAME IMMORTAL.

The CURE for DEATH

Part 2a.1

ONCE JESUS

RAISED FROM THE DEAD,

JESUS’ HUMAN BODY

BECAME IMMORTAL. 

…

Adapted from

THE JOHN GILL,

DOCTOR of DIVINITY ARCHIVE

THE BODY of DOCTRINAL DIVINITY,

THE BODY of PRACTICAL DIVINITY

&

EXPOSITION of The BIBLE

***

Jesus Christ

was really a Man,

and

is Evident

by His being Obedient

unto Death,

and as for

the Appearances of Jesus Christ

in an Human Form,

before Jesus Came in the flesh:

When the Scriptures speak of

Jesus’ Appearances

in the Old Testament

IF WE WERE TO “SAY”

that those were only “Appearances”,

in some other “form”,

other than in a “real Body

and not real Visits to Earth,

BY JESUS

it still does not follow,

that therefore

Jesus Coming in the flesh,

in the Fullness of Time,

was of the same kind,

OR

“JUST AN APPEARANCE”;

but rather the contrary follows;

and

since these

Appearances of Jesus

in The Old Testament

were

Preludes of Jesus’ Incarnation,

then Jesus’ Incarnation must be Real.

…

AND YET:

some of these

Previous Appearances

by Jesus Christ

in The Old Testament

were not

“merely Appearances”,

but Spiritual

AND

Physical Realities.

…

Real Bodies were Formed

and Made ALIVE, or Animated,

and Made use of for a time,

and then Laid Aside.

…

This seems to be the case

of the three men

that appeared to Abraham.

…

Two of the Individuals

that Appeared to Abraham

were Angels,

and

the Other was

the Lord, Jehovah,

the Son of God;

JESUS.

…

The two Angels and Jesus Christ

were Clothed with Bodies,

Capable of Walking and Traveling,

AND

of Talking and Conversing,

AND

of Eating and Drinking in.

…

THE SAME MAY BE SAID

of the Man that Wrestled with Jacob.

…

THAT “MAN: WAS

None Other than

The Angel of the Covenant,

the Promised Messiah;

JESUS.

…

The Body JESUS appeared in

TO JACOB

was not a mere phantom, spectre,

and apparition,

but palpable flesh,

that was felt and handled,

and grasped,

and held fast, by Jacob.

…

Jacob would not let go

of JESUS

until

JESUS Gave Jacob

the Blessing.

…

However, it is certain

that Jesus Christ

Partook of the same flesh

and blood

as His children and people do;

and therefore,

if their Body is real,

then Jesus’ Body is Real, also.

…

Likewise, Jesus’ Body is called

the Body of His flesh,

His fleshly Body

in Colossians 1:22,

to Distinguish

Jesus’ fleshly Body

from the token of His Body

in The Lord’s Supper,

AS WELL AS,

from Jesus’ Mystical

and Spiritual Body,

His churches.

…

All of JESUS’ Actions,

and what is said of JESUS

from JESUS’ Birth

to JESUS’ Death,

and

in Death and after Death,

Show that JESUS’ BODY

was a True HUMAN Body

that JESUS Assumed.

…

JESUS was Born

and

Brought into the World

as other men are.

…

When JESUS was Born,

His Body Grew

and

Increased in Stature,

as other human bodies do.

…

The Son of man Came Eating

and Drinking.

…

JESUS Traveled through Judea

and Galilee.

…

JESUS Slept in the ship

with His Disciples.

…

JESUS was Seen, and Heard,

and Handled by them.

…

JESUS was Buffered, Scourged, Bruised,

Wounded, and Crucified by men.

…

JESUS’ Body, when Dead,

was requested of the Governor

by Joseph,

AND JESUS’ DEAD BODY

was Taken Down from the Cross

by Joseph,

and Laid in JESUS’ Tomb.

…

THAT SAME IDENTICAL BODY

of JESUS CHRIST

with the Prints of the nails

and spear in

THAT SAME BODY,

was Raised from the Dead,

and

Seen and Handled

by JESUS’ Disciples.

…

JESUS DEMONSTRATED

TO HIS DISCIPLES

that He had flesh and bones,

THAT:

a Spirit has not.

…

Yes,

the Very Infirmities

that Attended JESUS,

although HE WAS sinless,

were Proofs of JESUS’ Body

being a True and Real

HUMAN BODY.

…

JESUS had Fatigue

and Weariness in traveling.

in John 4:6;

“Now Jacob’s well was there.

Jesus therefore,

being wearied with His journey,

Sat thus on the well:

and it was about the sixth hour.”

…

JESUS CRIED TEARS

at the grave of Lazarus,

in John 11:35;

“Jesus wept.”

and

JESUS WEPT

over Jerusalem, in Luke 19:41;

“And when He ( Jesus )

was come near,

He Beheld the city,

and Wept over it”

…

JESUS also

Sweat in the Garden.

in Luke 22:44;

“And being in an Agony

He Prayed more Earnestly:

…

“and His Sweat

was as it were

Great Drops of Blood

falling down to the ground.”

…

In short,

it was through

weakness of the flesh

that JESUS was Crucified;

which was not in Appearance,

but in Reality.

…

The HUMAN BODY that

JESUS ASSUMED

was Mortal,

as it was Proper it should be,

since the end of JESUS’

Assumption of that Body

was to Suffer death in it.

…

But,

ONCE JESUS

RAISED FROM THE DEAD,

JESUS’ HUMAN BODY

BECAME IMMORTAL

and

JESUS’ IMMORTAL BODY

WILL NEVER DIE.

…

NOW,

JESUS’ IMMORTAL BODY

REMAINS,

as the Pledge and Pattern

of the Resurrection

of the Bodies of the Saints,

which will be Fashioned

and Made just like to

JESUS’ GLORIOUS BODY

RESURRECTED to IMMORALITY.

…

THE RESURRECTION

of JESUS’ BODY from The DEAD,

to GLORIOUS IMMORTALITY

will be the Object

of the Corporal Vision of the saints

after their Resurrection,

with Joy and Pleasure,

THROUGHOUT ALL ETERNITY.

***

The Death, Burial

and

Resurrection

of

JESUS CHRIST

FROM THE DEAD

is

The CURE for DEATH

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