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*1 Corinthians 15:50-51… *Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed...
*Commentary*
In v. 49 Paul said that because believers have inherited a body of flesh, born in the likeness of the first man Adam, they will also bear the image of the heavenly once they die.
While Adam’s likeness is what all humans inherit at birth, that which awaits believers in heaven is the image of Christ.
Now in v. 50 Paul makes it clear once again that the flesh and blood that all humans have while on the earth will in fact not inherit God’s kingdom.
The word “inherit” means to acquire some possession that belonged to someone else following their death.
The inheritance that Christians look forward to at their own death is the “kingdom of God.” God’s kingdom is twofold: His creation and His reign in the hearts of believers.
Verse 50 encompasses both of these options /along with/ the eternal state of heaven which is yet future.
In other words, the full measure of God’s kingdom will not allow flesh and blood to live in it.
The human body belongs to the perishable world which will one day be wiped out by the wrath of God only to be restored with the new heavens and a new earth (Isa.
65:17; 66:22; 2 Pet.
3:13).
Our flesh and blood is no more suited for the afterlife in heaven than fish are outside of water.
“Behold!” means “Listen up now!”
For Paul is going to reveal a “mystery.”
The “mystery” here refers to a hidden truth of the past now revealed.
It was common knowledge to the Corinthians that Christ was going to return to the earth in his second coming to establish his eternal reign and bring eternal life.
All of the Gospel writers and the OT prophets attested to this.
Zechariah 14 deals at length with the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Matthew 24:4-31 is the most exhaustive of all the Gospel accounts regarding Christ’s second coming.
And yet in both passages (and the others) there is no mention of saints being taken away prior to this.
The “mystery,” therefore, that Paul speaks of is the Rapture of the saints prior to Christ’s second coming (cf. 1 Thess.
4:13-18).
The “mystery” revealed is that “not all will sleep [die], but all will be changed.”
If Paul were merely speaking of Christ’s second coming, a fact that all looked forward to, he wouldn’t have called it a “mystery.”
The mystery is the Rapture of the saints.
The mystery revealed is twofold.
First, “we shall not all sleep [die].”
At the Rapture Christ appears in the clouds, and those who have not yet died meet him in the air with the saints gone before (cf. 1 Thes.
4:16-17).
Those involved in this phenomenon will include Christians dating back to the time of Acts 2 in the first century A.D. to the present day.
Second, “we shall all be changed.”
Of course this point is what he’s been preaching all along in reference to the resurrection, especially in v. 50 where he said that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”
So if our present bodily form cannot inherit eternal life, then believers must be changed in order to have suitable forms to go into eternal life with Christ.
The word for “changed” simply means to “transform one particular thing into something else.” Believers’ bodies will be undergo a change making them suitable for their heavenly eternity.
*Food for Thought*
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