Verse 21
When Christ returns for us at the Rapture He will transform our present mortal bodies into immortal bodies such as our Lord’s resurrected body. The comparison between these two bodies is striking. One is lowly, weak, and susceptible to all kinds of evil influences. The idea that it is sinful, which the AV implies by using the word "vile," is absent in the Greek word (tapeinoseos). The other new body will be glorious, more expressive of our true state as the children of God, and incorruptible. This transformation will occur whether we are alive or dead when the Lord returns (1 Corinthians 15:51-54; 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10). This amazing change will transpire because of the same divine power by which God will eventually subject everything in the universe to Himself.
"The promise of his coming is given without date so that we may live daily preparing to meet our Lord." [Note: Motyer, p. 198.]
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