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Isaiah 19:1-4 concerning Egypt
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
I wanted to bring you up-to-date as to what is happening in Egypt because the next move by either Mohamed Mursi’s government or the protectors against Mursi could show us a clear picture of the Isaiah 19 prophecy. Let me explain.
We know for sure part of Isaiah 19 has already been fulfilled. We know this because with out a doubt Egyptians are fighting against Egyptians just as the prophecy states. The part I am unsure of at this point is whether Mursi is the cruel lord of which God warns? As you will see from the news report below we could see another civil war flare up in Egypt over Mohamed Mursi’s rule. You see, when the Egyptians rioted to get rid of Egypt’s last president they thought that they were on their way to a Democratic way of life. As we can all see now those hopes were dashed with the help of Obama and Mursi. Egyptians thought Mursi was the man who would change things for the better however, as I warned over a year ago Mursi instead of bringing democratic changes all he did was install an Islamic Muslim Brotherhood government which of course promotes the opposite of freedom. Over the course of the past year Egyptians began to notice Mursi’s government was taking on the Muslim Brotherhood agenda which was to install the strict Islamic rule and Sharia law.
The sad part about all this is the U.S. President has also promoted the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood government. America which is suppose to be the nation who promotes freedom has jumped in bed with Mursi’s government. Since Mohamed Mursi became president Obama has given Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood billions of U.S. dollars to shore up his government and he has given them millions of U.S. dollars in military aid such as the jets as seen in this Fox News headline: “US gives 4 more F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian government despite outcry”. Here is a section of that report.
“Four more F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. on Thursday headed for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package that has generated controversy given the political upheaval in the Mideast country. Critics say the military aid should stop because the president Egyptians elected last year has led the Muslim Brotherhood, called President Obama liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children.”
In the report you will see below you will see 15 pictures of the Egypt’s citizens who get what Obama is doing to Egypt! While Americans are being lead astray by Obama as they see their rights erode Egyptians see clearly what the actions of Obama have had on their nation. One must ask, why is the President who is suppose to represent the free world supporting Islam, and the terrorists who are working to destroy the democratic way of life?
Egypt’s military has given Mursi a time limit to step down and that time limit is up in a few hours. What is going to happen. As I said in the beginning of this report, I am unsure at this point if Mursi is the cruel lord and the fierce king Isaiah talks about. What will we see shortly out of Egypt? Will Mursi rise up and use force to over come the millions of Egyptians who want true freedom and it so will this move him into the roll of the cruel and fierce king?
It can only go two ways that I can see. First, Mursi will rise up use force to control Egypt and then continue this force to rule over Egypt. Of course in doing so he would become the cruel lord. However, if Egypt’s military overcomes Mursi and Mursi meets the same fate as the last Egyptian President then we have to look at the next leader who takes over Egypt as the possible cruel lord. How many times in past history have we seen the military over take a leader only to install a military dictator.
Now for the report which the 15 pictures. I have put up two of those pictures for you but it you want to see them all click the link at the end of this report.
“Curiously, a massive wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt has been utterly ignored by vintage media, even though the protests may be the largest in all of human history.”
Military chiefs, vowing to restore order in a country racked by demonstrations over Mursi’s Islamist policies, issued a call to battle in a statement headlined “The Final Hours”. They said they were willing to shed blood against “terrorists and fools” after Mursi refused to give up his elected office.
The armed forces general command was holding a crisis meeting, a military source said, less than five hours before an ultimatum was due to expire for Mursi to either agree to share power or make way for an army-imposed solution. In an emotional, rambling midnight television address, the president said he was democratically elected and would stay in office to uphold the constitutional order, declaring: “The price of preserving legitimacy is my life.” Liberal opponents said it showed he had “lost his mind”. The official spokesman of his Muslim Brotherhood movement said his supporters were willing to become martyrs to defend Mursi.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/guest-post-egyptians-love-us-our-freedom
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130703
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/11/us-gives-4-more-f-16-fighter-jets-to-egyptian-government/#ixzz2XzI5PztZ
Video: Obama reveals his Islamophobia while in Nigeria
While in Lagos, Nigeria, President Barack Obama spoke at a town hall meeting. In this clip, he’s asked two questions by a female audience member. The first has to do with maximizing human capital in the country. The second has to do with the rise of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria. To avoid falling asleep during his answer to the first question so you don’t miss his answer to the second question, just fast forward to the 6:05 mark, when Obama addresses the question about terrorism.
Talk about how Satan is working in the world check this out!
Child marriage, polygamy increasing in modern, moderate Indonesia
“Conservative Islam” is on the rise in Indonesia: i.e., traditional Sharia Islam. In Indonesia, you’re “conservative” if you favor Sharia, polygamy, child marriage, etc.; in the U.S., you’re “conservative” — indeed, “far-right” — if you oppose those things.
“As Conservative Islam Rises in Indonesia, Polygamy Flourishes,” by Laura Gumbs for the Asia Sentinel, July 1:
Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, the ex-chairman of Indonesia’s Islamist-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), is currently on trial for corruption involving receipt of bribes in exchange for issuing higher beef import quotas though the agriculture ministry, which the party controls.Luthfi also has been accused of funneling billions of rupiah to his three wives in order to launder money he received in bribes. He says his youngest was already 18 when he married her last year while she was still attending vocational school. The 51-year old Luthfi has 15 children from his marriages, presumably most from his first two wives.
PKS, which fancies itself an upholder of religious virtue, has been rocked by the twin graft scandals, first the beef and then revelation of Luthfi’s secret girl-wife and corresponding abuse of power and privilege. Even the original bribery case was mired in sex because an aide to the PKS leader was arrested in the company of a college co-ed he had paid for sex in a luxury Jakarta hotel. Rumor has it that the co-ed has been a frequent companion of many senior PKS figures.
Many men marry extra wives secretly, making exact figures on polygamous marriages hard to determine. Polygamy was legalized in 1974 under Marriage Law No. 1. Men may take up to four wives but women may not take extra husbands.
Polygamy was, however, discouraged and restricted until the end of the reign of Suharto, when Islamic organizations demanded lifts on prohibitions of Islamic practices. In 2000 after pressure from the Muslim Unity Organzation (Persis), the prohibition on public servants having more than one wife was annulled.
Polygamy is permissible under Islam, and also justified by it. Across Islamic parties, the practice is common even though it is frowned upon by large swathes of Indonesian society. Other PKS officials with multiple wives are Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring, and party officials Didin Amaruddin, Anis Matta and Zulkieflimansyah.
In 2009, the Indonesian Women’s Solidarity group released a list of polygamous politicians just before the parliamentary and presidential elections and it briefly flared as a campaign issue. However these politicians remain buoyant in their political aspirations, with newly appointed PKS Chairman Anis Matta public about his two wives and soon-to-be 10 children.
In a climate of increasing Islamization of the public sphere and a simultaneous expansion of an educated middle class, polygamy has both its ardent supporters and indignant detractors. “There is no such thing as a polygamous marriage that benefits women,” said National Commission on Violence against Women member Andy Yentriyani.
The behavior of PKS, the largest of the country’s Islamic parties, leaves Indonesia’s human rights and development objectives sorely impoverished. Not only does corruption perpetuate unequal social and economic relations, senior PKS officials send messages that represent impractical and unsustainable family units and broader social economic relations.
A recent Jakarta Globe story quoted Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi as stating that Indonesia’s family planning programs had failed, as the 2014 Millennium Development Goals target of 2.1 births per woman was still at 2.6 in 2012. Yet polygamists demonstrate that they are above efforts to decrease excessive births, especially polygamists whose wealth indemnifies them from the concerns of the rural poor who strain to provide resources for large families.
More worryingly, Nafsiah said that child marriages are increasing, which adds to higher maternal mortality rates due to immature reproductive organs.
“Currently, instances of early marriage are increasing, and teenagers under 20 years old are sexually active,” she said.
Indonesia’s mortality rate is 17,520 cases per year, or two people per hour. Sudibyo Alimoeso, acting chief of the Family Planning Board (BKKBN), also said child marriage is a contributing factor to the number.
However the failures of the family planning board are illustrated by poorly-focused programs such as a counseling campaign to provide more information about the risks of childbirth for sexually immature women, which was only introduced in non-Islamic schools.
In order to address the problem of child marriage, maternal mortality, poverty, and gender inequality, clearly religio-cultural sources such as Islam should not be ignored, and with it the unequal patriarchal social relations it produces.
Rather than seeing such issues as sites for the formation and contest of masculinity, these behaviors have real consequences for society and for females. Luthfi and Co., with their penchant for teenagers and numerous offspring, perpetuate a cycle of inequality that results in poverty, the entrapment of women to their fertility and dependence on their husbands. This is primarily a problem for developing countries, and those in prominent political positions inadvertently exemplify detrimental traditions that stall women’s progress.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes child marriage as a complex and longstanding practice, rooted deeply in gender inequality, tradition and poverty.
“Social pressures within a community can lead families to wed young children. For example, some cultures believe marrying girls before they reach puberty will bring blessings on families. Some societies believe that early marriage will protect young girls from sexual attacks and violence and see it as a way to insure that their daughter will not become pregnant out of wedlock and bring dishonor to the family.”
According to the WHO, child marriage is increasingly recognized as a violation of the rights of girls for significant reasons: It ends education, blocking any opportunity to gain vocational and life skills. It exposes girls to the risks of too-early pregnancy, child bearing, and motherhood before they are physically and psychologically ready. It increases their risk of intimate partner sexual violence and HIV infection.
Backwards ways of thinking about women, very young women included, the institutionalization through marriage of women’s commodification in sexual relationships, the care and maintenance by multiple females of a central male patriarch, and even the benefit of multiple wives as vessels for the disbursement of illicit funds, are perpetuated and legitimized by officials like those in PKS.
Now where do they get such crazy notions
Headline: The Middle East Is on Fire: An Unsettling Wrap-Up of the Death, Destruction and Chaos From Around the Globe
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/the-middle-east-is-on-fire-an-unsettling-wrap-up-of-the-death-destruction-and-chaos-from-around-the-globe/
Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24:6 And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Headline: The Middle East Is on Fire: An Unsettling Wrap-Up of the Death, Destruction and Chaos From Around the Globe
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/the-middle-east-is-on-fire-an-unsettling-wrap-up-of-the-death-destruction-and-chaos-from-around-the-globe/
Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/03/egypt-epidemic-sexual-violence
Prophecy Sign: Matthew 24:7 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Headline: Indonesia quake toll rises to 22
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/358098/death-toll-in-indonesia-quake-rises-to-22
Prophecy Sign: Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Texas Capital Abortion Supporters chant “Hail Satan”
http://www.redstate.com/2013/07/02/abortionists-declare-their-team-chant-hail-satan-at-texas-abortion-protest/
http://acahnman.blogspot.com/2013/07/texas-capital-abortion-supporters-chant.html?m=1
Prophecy Sign: (Disease) Matthew 24:7 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Headline: New Tick-Borne Illness Could Be Worse Than Lyme Disease http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/02/new-tick-borne-illness-could-be-worse-than-lyme-disease/
I day ago Zebdonk from my youtube channel left me a comment on the what the Jehovah’s Witness teach. Below is zebdonk comment and my responce.
zebdonk 1 day ago
Jesus ” had” come in the flesh; JWs do believe that! Otherwise, how could Jesus have paid the ransom?
That said how could he come back from the dead in the same body? Wouldn’t that be taking back the ransom?
If Jesus had returned from the dead in the same body that he had been born with as a human then why wasn’t he recognized, instantly, by his disciples and followers, John 20: 14-16
The bible says Jesus was raised a spirit, 1Peter 3:18. Spirits can appear in human form, Judges 13:9,10.
1 Peter 3:18King James Version (KJV)
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 10:18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father
More information on this subject below:
QUESTION: “Was Jesus raised as a spirit after He died or was He bodily raised from the dead?”
“Christ was not raised in a fleshly body. His old earthly body that died on the cross was no more. In fact, the Bible says that ‘the last Adam became a life-giving spirit’ (1 Cor. 15:45). The Scriptures also say that ‘flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God’ (v. 50). Therefore, Jesus must have been raised as a spirit person after He died on the cross.”
ANSWER:
The classic view of the so-called “Jehovah’s Witnesses” is that Jesus is a “spirit” at present and that he has a “spiritual body.” One of their official writings states: “Jesus was raised to life as an invisible spirit. He did not take up again that body in which he had been killed as a human sacrifice to God” (Let Your Name Be Sanctified, p. 266). Further, Jesus “was not raised out of the grave a human creature, but he was raised a spirit” (Let God Be True, p. 272). Again, “This firstborn from the dead was raised from the grave, not a human creature, but a spirit” (p. 276).
Since the Witnesses do believe that Jesus was merely a “human creature” during His earthly life, they believe that when he died, He ceased to exist. They assert: “It is clearly seen that even the man Christ Jesus was mortal. He did not have an immortal soul: Jesus, the human soul, died”(Let God Be True, p. 71). What do they mean by Christ’s death? “At death man’s spirit, his life-force, which is sustained by breathing, ‘goes out.’ It no longer exists. . . . When they are dead, both humans and animals are in this same state of complete unconsciousness. . . . That the soul lives on after death is a lie started by the Devil”(You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, p. 77). When Jesus died, therefore, what was His state? “The human soul ceases to exist at death” (Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Twentieth Century). Jesus ceased to exist when He died!
Witnesses also teach that Jesus is no longer a man. You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth states, “Having given up his flesh for the life of the world, Christ could never take it gain and become a man once more” (p. 143). The Witnesses seem firm in this conviction that Jesus is not a man and not human (while also denying that he is deity): “Jehovah God raised him from the dead, not as a human Son,but as a mighty immortal spirit Son. . . . For forty days after that he materialized, as angels before him had done, to show himself alive to his disciples” (Let God Be True, p. 40). The angels, of course, never became flesh and blood as Jesus did through the virgin conception. They were merely spirit creatures who materialized on occasion to do God’s will (cf. Heb. 1:14). Witnesses think that Jesus’ appearances are similar: “Usually they could not at first tell it was Jesus, for he appeared in different bodies. He appeared and disappeared just as angels had done, because he was resurrected as a spirit creature. Only because Thomas would not believe did Jesus appear in a body like that in which he had died” (From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, p. 144). Did Jesus appear in the same body—or only in a body “like” that which had died?
What happened to Christ’s body after it was buried? The Witnesses answer: “Jehovah saw fit to remove Jesus’ body, even as he had done before with Moses’ body. (Deuteronomy 34:5, 6) Also, if the body had been left in the tomb, Jesus’ disciples could not have understood that he had been raised from the dead, since at that time they did not fully appreciate spiritual things” (p. 144). In other words, if God had left Jesus’ dead body in the tomb, the disciples would have been tempted to believe that Jesus had not been raised from the dead! The teaching of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Witness movement, speculated further: “Our Lord’s human body . . . did not decay or corrupt. . . . Whether it was dissolved into gases or whether it is still preserved somewhere . . . no one knows” (Studies in the Scriptures, 2:129).
Not only was Jesus’ human body not resurrected, according to the Witnesses, but “Jesus did not take his human body to heaven to be forever a man in heaven” (Let God Be True, p. 41). You are reading exactly what the Witnesses believe: Jesus’ human body was not resurrected and did not ascend to heaven. One further quotation: “Having given up his flesh for the life of the world, Christ could never take it again and become a man once more. For that basic reason his return could never be in the human body that he sacrificed once for all time” (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, p. 143).
From these quotations, we can learn something of the teaching of the so-called “Jehovah’s Witnesses” regarding the resurrection and related matters:
Jesus was a man on earth who ceased to exist when He died.
Jesus was no longer a man, no longer a human being, after His so-called resurrection.
The body of Jesus (the body in which He lived and died) was not resurrected but God “removed” the body as He did Moses’ body.
Jesus did not appear in the same body in which He died.
Jesus did not ascend to heaven in his human body.
Jesus is now merely a “spirit” and has a “spirit” body.
Jesus’ appearances are similar to appearances of angels.
We believe that these points fairly represent the Witness teaching about Jesus’ so-called resurrection from the dead. We say “so-called” since it is clear that they do not really believe in Christ’s resurrection, but in a form of re-creation. They believe that Jesus ceased to exist for three days and his human body was disposed of in some manner, after which He was re-created and came forth as a spirit who would materialize and appear to various ones, not as a man but as a spirit who was a god. What does Scripture say about these teachings?
Notice some of the truths of Scripture:
First, Jesus was raised with a glorified physical body. The Lord appeared to His disciples on the night of the resurrection and invited them with these words: “See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have” (Luke 24:39). Jesus’ resurrection body had “flesh” and “bones” and He specifically said that He was not a “spirit.” He proved the nature of His body by asking, “Have you anything here to eat?” The record then states: “They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish; and He took it and ate it before them” (vv. 41-43). When Peter preached to the household of Cornelius, he said that Jesus had appeared to chosen witnesses “who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead” (Acts 10:41) (See also Luke 24:30; John 21:12,13.) Christ’s resurrection body was capable of physical functions, although apparently not needing physical sustenance.
Our Lord had a body that could be touched and handled. When He appeared to Mary Magdalene in the Garden, this devoted woman touched Him and He replied, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father”(John 20:17). When the women were on their way to tell the disciples about the empty tomb, Jesus met them on the way. The record says that “they came up and took hold of His feet and worshipped Him” (Matt. 28:9). John the apostle says, “We have looked at and touched with our hands” (1 John 1:1). Christ’s body was not immaterial. While this glorified body could appear and disappear at will (cf. Luke 24:31, 36; John 20:19, 26), when Jesus did appear, His body could be seen, felt, and touched.
Second, Jesus appeared in the same body in which He died. God did not have to recreate His body; He simply resurrected the same body. The description of the resurrection scene makes it clear that Christ’s own body that had been wrapped in the burial clothes had been raised to life (cf. Luke 24:12; John 20:4-9). Paul refers to “the body of His glory” (Phil. 3:21), but this glorified body was still Christ’s body, the body that was crucified for our sins. When Jesus cleansed the temple at the beginning of His ministry, He affirmed, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). John then explains, “He was speaking of the temple of His body” (v. 21). Jesus, in effect, says that if the Jews “destroy” the temple of His body through crucifixion, He will raise “it” (His body) up. He will resurrect His body from the grave! He makes a similar argument at John 10:17-18. The very body that Jesus offered up for our sins would be laid in a tomb and would come forth from that tomb as a resurrected, glorified body. The idea that God “removed” Jesus’ body from the tomb and disposed of it or the idea that Jesus’ body “dissolved into gasses” or is “preserved” somewhere on earth is a clear denial of the bodily resurrection of the Son of God!
It is clear that Jesus’ appeared in the same body in which He died. He told Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing”(John 20:27; cf. vv. 24-26; Luke 24:39). The apostles saw the very wound marks in Jesus’ body—testifying to the fact that Jesus Himself was standing before them with the same body in which He died. John the apostle later wrote of “what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life” (1 John 1:1). Jesus was no mere spiritual, immaterial being, but could show His disciples His bodily wounds.
Third, Jesus was raised as a man. It is quite clear that Jesus continues to be a man, a human being (while also existing as deity). Paul says, “There is one God, and one mediator also between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is called “the second man” (1 Cor. 15:47). He further says, “Since by a man [Adam] came death, by a man [Christ] also came the resurrection of the dead” (15:21). In vision, John the apostle saw “one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet,” an obvious reference to Christ Jesus (Rev. 1:13). The Lord Jesus was born as a man and will continue as a man through all eternity. The does not deny the fact that He “was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead” (Rom. 1:4).
Fourth, Jesus ascended to heaven in His resurrection body. Not only did Jesus rise from the dead in the same crucified body, but He ascended to the Father in heaven with that same glorified body. Luke says that Jesus led His disciples as far as Bethany, and “He lifted up His hands and blessed them. While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven” (24:50-51; cf. Mark 16:19). The same scene is given in Acts 1. After Jesus spoke to them, “He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight” (v. 9). The same Jesus, in bodily form, will one day return for His own. The angels told the disciples, “This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven” (v. 11). Christ was resurrected in a glorified human body, He ascended to heaven with that same body, and He will return one day with the same glorified body!
Fifth, Jesus no longer has a mortal, perishable, earthly body. Paul speaks about the resurrection of Christ in 1 Corinthians 15 and points out that just as Christ rose from the dead, so we will rise from the dead. “Now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep” (v. 20). The apostle compares the pre-resurrection body with the post-resurrection body in this way:
With this in mind we should understand the statement that “the last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor. 15:45). As spirit, Jesus also had a body, a body of glory (Phil. 3:21). The “spiritual body” that Christ had when He was raised from death and the spiritual body that we will have at the resurrection is not an immaterial body, but a body that is no longer subject to death and decay (1 Cor. 15:44). Further, when Paul says that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 15:50), He must mean that that which is mortal, earthly, and perishable cannot inherit God’s kingdom. “Flesh and blood” can simply mean mortal man, as a comparison with Jesus’ words at Matthew 16:17 reveals: “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.” Therefore, mortal man cannot inherit God’s kingdom—but man, resurrected with an immortal body, can enter His kingdom. 1 Corinthians 15:50b bears out this understanding. After saying that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, Paul says, “nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.” In other words, “flesh and blood” stands for the “perishable” and the kingdom of God stands for the “imperishable.” Our perishable bodies will not inherit God’s kingdom, but we will have resurrected, glorified, immortal, spiritual, and heavenly bodies that will inherit God’s kingdom. It is significant that the idea of a “spiritual” body (1 Cor. 15:44) does not necessarily mean an immaterial or invisible body any more than one who is “spiritual” now is in an immaterial form and invisible to our sight (1 Cor. 2:15).
How important is Christ’s Resurrection?
While some people may simply dismiss this question as inconsequential, Scripture says that Christ’s resurrection is essential for our eternal salvation. Paul declared, “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation”(Rom. 10:9-10). Did God raise Jesus from the dead? Yes. In order to be saved from our sins, we must believe in this fundamental fact of the gospel (1 Cor. 15:1-11). If Christ did not literally rise from the dead, we are hopeless: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins” (1 Cor. 15:17; cf. vv. 12-22). If Jesus’ body merely dissolved into gasses or if God simply “removed” His body to some unknown location on earth, we will perish in our sins!
As to your comment, “If Jesus had returned from the dead in the same body that he had been born with as a human then why wasn’t he recognized, instantly, by his disciples and followers, John 20: 14-16
Answer: Bible does not specifically tell us why the followers of Christ did not always recognize Jesus after His resurrection. As a result, some of the following is speculation. Keeping this in mind, there are a few things that might have contributed to the disciples not recognizing Jesus immediately when He first appeared to them after His resurrection. First, even though Jesus had predicted that He would rise again on the third day, the disciples did not fully understand (Mark 9:32), because clearly they were not looking for Him to be resurrected. This can account for some of their surprise and shock at seeing Him.
One of the instances where Jesus was not recognized was Mary Magdalene’s coming to the tomb early in the morning (John 20:15). Instead of recognizing Jesus, she first mistook Him for the gardener. One thing that is important to remember is that we do not know how far Mary was from Jesus when she misidentified Him. It could be that she was simply too far to clearly recognize who He was until He spoke to her. Second, we must remember that since it was very early in the morning, the light would not have been very bright which could also have made it more difficult for her to see Him clearly. When we couple that with the fact that she was not expecting to see Him alive, it is easy to see why she did not recognize Him from a distance until He spoke to her.
A second instance in which Jesus was not immediately recognized was when the disciples did not recognize Him when they were out fishing (
John 21:4). This could also be related to the distance Jesus might have been from them. A third instance is when the two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) did not recognize Jesus until He broke bread. How could these two disciples have walked, talked, and eaten with Jesus without recognizing Him? In this instance, it seems that they were supernaturally prevented from recognizing Jesus. Jesus perhaps had taken on a different appearance to keep Himself from being recognized. Why would Jesus have done this? The Bible does not say. Perhaps Jesus “veiled” His identity so the two disciples would truly think through the things Jesus was saying, rather than accepting the teaching blindly, as they likely would have if they had known it was Jesus.
What we can know for certain is that it was Jesus Himself who appeared to them because of all the testimony of those who saw the resurrected Christ. In addition, there was the witness of the remarkable change that took place in the lives of the disciples. Immediately before and after the crucifixion, the eleven apostles were in hiding in fear, yet after spending considerable time with the resurrected Christ, they became fearless evangelists proclaiming the gospel boldly no matter how strong the opposition. In addition, all eventually gave their lives for the sake of the gospel. Only witnessing the resurrected Jesus Christ can account for such a radical change.