A Mystery

1 Corinthians 15:51-55 (ESV)

51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

55 “O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

We who follow Christ have changed. We are no longer of this world, yet we remain in the world. We are reborn in Spirit, raised into His life and transferred spiritually into the the kingdom of heaven. 

Our earthly flesh will die, but will not remain in the grave. Our bodies will be reborn and raised into the life of our new spirits to complete our transformation into the image of God which is Christ Jesus. We will see Him and be like Him. We will become the new creation.