Flesh and Blood by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 29, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 17.

Flesh and Blood

By Editor

No. 542. Flesh and Blood. 1 Cor. 15 : 50.

PLEASE explain 1 Cor. 15:50. What kind of a body is the resurrection body? Did not Christ go to heaven flesh and blood? Was not Elijah translated flesh and blood?

"Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God," that is, God's immortal kingdom, for the reason that "neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." The corruption of natural man is in the natural life, and "the life of the flesh is in the blood." Lev. 17:11. The blood is therefore corrupted, making a true basis for the statement so often heard, "The blood must be purified," a work which no man can do. The resurrection body is "a spiritual body." 1 Cor. 15:44. The Spirit of God flows in the immortal man in the place of blood, and his whole being is changed to incorruption. Our Saviour had "a spiritual body" at his ascension, with the immortal flesh, filled with the life of God. Elijah must have been changed in this way also. The stamp of immortality upon the physical man is God's stamp of genuineness on man's incorruptible character.