C. Exception: All Christians At The End Of The Millennium.
C. Exception: All Christians At The End Of The Millennium.
NOTE: ONE EXCEPTION: Notice on the Diagram in section "VI. The Two Resurrections", at the end of the Millennium. At this point, the Heavens and the Earth are destroyed; and in 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:13 we are told that:
“...In the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10)
“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”(2 Peter 3:13)
Further information is gleaned from Isaiah 65:17,
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Isaiah 65:17)
You will recall that the Millennial Kingdom is started with all saved people in their human bodies (Matthew 25:34), who will bear children during the Millennium. We have no record of these or any other Christians dying during the Millennium. Longevity will be extended as it existed prior to the Flood and a short time after. The Christian during the Millennium will still possess the old, Adamic nature, just as we have today. So to dwell in the New Heaven and New Earth “wherein dwelleth righteousness,” their sinful bodies must be exchanged for new resurrected bodies.
All Christians at the end of the Millennium will have a resurrection, exchanging their terrestrial bodies for a celestial body as found in1 Corinthians 15:40.
“There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.” (1 Corinthians 15:40)
In 1 Corinthians 15:53 we are told,
“For this corruptible (dead) must put on incorruption (bodies that can never decay), and this mortal (those alive) must put on IMMORTALITY (bodies that will never taste death).”
We are told why in 1 Corinthians 15:50,
“Now this I say, brethren, that FLESH and BLOOD cannot inherit the kingdom of God...”
...And in Php_3:20-21
“For our conversation (i.e. citizenship) is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: (Php_3:20)
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. “ (Php_3:20-21) 9. Diagram of The Two Resurrections