{"id":15676,"date":"2025-05-09T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:43:23","slug":"jesus-coming-vs-jesus-appearing-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15676\/jesus-coming-vs-jesus-appearing-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus’ Coming vs Jesus’ Appearing, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi John.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concerning Allison\u2019s question of cremation and what God will exhume (with\u00a0our bodies if we are ashes), I heard or read somewhere in the past that whether we are buried or burned, it really doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0\u00a0God would have nothing to work with in either case because whether a body is cremated or buried, it still turns into nothing useable as far as putting in our\u00a0body back together. The Bible verses mentioned and which I read were\u00a0in 1Corinthians 15:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The resurrection from the dead is the same way.\u00a0\u00a0It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption;<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power;<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. it is sown a physical body; it is raised a spiritual body.\u00a0\u00a0There is a physical body, and there is a spiritual body.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The point which Paul made was that\u00a0what will be raised is nothing like what was buried (or burned, etc.). This is my understanding of the cremation versus burial issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Gary<\/span><\/p>\n

    ==========<\/span><\/p>\n

    Thanks, Gary.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    That is true.\u00a0\u00a0Whether cremated or not, in the resurrection, Jesus will give his saints a different kind of body than this mortal, fleshly one.\u00a0 That one, for most of God’s people, will be long gone by then.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n

    I didn’t get the idea of Jesus exhuming our physical bodies from the grave from the original emails.\u00a0 But it brought Paul’s words in Corinthians about being raised as a spiritual body to mind, and Kay and I just read them.\u00a0 It really made me stop and think about how Paul likened the resurrection to the result of sowing a seed.\u00a0 I have never thought of death as a sowing.\u00a0 It also reminded me in a way of what Jesus said in John 12:24, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless the kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”<\/span><\/p>\n

    Damien<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Still, someone will say, \u201cHow are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come forth?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies,<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \u00a0 \u00a0 37.and that which you sow, you do not sow the body that shall be, but bare grain, be it of wheat or of some other seed;<\/span><\/p>\n

      \u00a0 \u00a038.then God gives it a body as it pleases Him, and to each of the seeds, its own body.<\/span><\/p>\n

      …<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. The resurrection from the dead is the same way. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption;<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power;<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. is sown a physical body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a physical body, and there is a spiritual body.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \u00a0 \u00a0 49.and as we have borne the likeness of the earthly, we shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. Behold, I am telling you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. an instant, at the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Hi John. Concerning Allison\u2019s question of cremation and what God will exhume (with\u00a0our bodies if we are ashes), I heard or read somewhere in the past that whether we are buried or burned, it really doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0\u00a0God would have nothing to work with in either case because whether a body is cremated or buried, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15680,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions\/15680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}