Rising in the Heavenly Tabernacle The discussion over the resurrection body continues as we study Rising in the Heavenly Tabernacle. There are countless posts in the Preterist groups and pages on Facebook and other Social Media sites. The resolution to this debate centers around three things, namely context, historical Old Testament and NT references, careful and consistent interpretation and temporal indicators or time references. What is the Context of 2 Corinthians 5? Part of the problem in determining the context of 2 Corinthians 5 is viewing the first ten verses of the chapter as the context. This is misleading. The full context begins in chapter ...

Heavenly Body Definition of 1 Corinthians 15:49 There is some discussion on the rendering of the heavenly body definition of 1 Corinthians 15:49 in the Greek. The discussion arises out of the rendering of one letter in the Greek. It’s the letter “o”. The difference between the Greek and the English is that the Greek has two letters which are rendered “o”. One is the letter “Omicron” (short o) and the other is the final letter of the Alphabet, Omega (long o). These two letters can significantly change the meaning of a word, particularly in this case, the tense. In the case ...

Resurrection of the Body Already But Not Yet In the previous article we discussed the framework of the resurrection of the body. In this article we will examine the resurrection of the body and the already but not yet. In our review, we once again appeal to the writings of Dr. Gordon Fee in His NICNT commentary on 1 Corinthians. Why The Already But Not Yet Is Important It is vital to our study of the resurrection of the body to understand the significance of the already but not yet. One of the major objections to the Covenant Body View is the corporate ...