3764 - Flesh and Blood in the Kingdom

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 28, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 21.

3764 — Flesh and Blood in the Kingdom

Please explain 1 Cor. 15:50: "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God."

This expression is explained in the latter clause of the verse: "Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Man in his present state of mortality can not have place in the kingdom of God. The change must take place. Man must be fitted for that newer and better world. "The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." "The first man is of the earth, earthy," and so are all his children; but the last Adam is the Lord from heaven, and such will be His children. And therefore flesh and blood, or man in his mortal condition, can not inherit the kingdom of God.