When believers die their spirits go directly to be with the Lord ( 2 Cor. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. But for one group, the earthly body will simply be transformed into the heavenly one at the rapture of the Church ( 1 Cor. For most, the earthly body will die and return to dust, and the heavenly body will replace it at the resurrection. But our earthly body, which is the temporary home of our spirit, has to give way to our heavenly body in order for our spirit to receive its permanent home. Most of us don’t live in tents, and even if we do our earthly home does not have to be destroyed before we can go to our heavenly one. Right away we can see that Paul was using terms for dwelling places to represent our bodies. An Earthly Tent And A Heavenly Houseįor we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands ( 2 Cor. 5:1-10 in a little more depth because reading it again reminded me of some really interesting information about what’s in store for us. I don’t think the person who posted the objection was persuaded to my point of view, and I know I wasn’t persuaded to his, but that’s not the point of this study. This means Jesus was going to prepare a physical location for us to live in. The Greek word translated place can mean anything from a marked off space to an inhabited city but is never used to refer to a body. 5 because he referred to our earthly body as a tent (temporary) but our heavenly body as a house (permanent).įor me, the clincher is that in John 14:2 Jesus said He was going to prepare a place for us. It’s also clear that Paul was speaking metaphorically in 2 Cor. 5:2 but it’s translated from a different Greek word. To be fair, the word dwelling also appears in some English translations of 2 Cor. When I looked up the Greek text of John 14:2, I found that the word rooms (mansions in the KJV) is a translation of a Greek word that means a dwelling, or abode. This person’s opinion is that Jesus was talking about our post-resurrection body and he cited 2 Cor. Recently I had someone object to my belief that Jesus was referring to our eternal home in the New Jerusalem when He said this. I am going there to prepare a place for you ( John 14:2). In my Father’s house are many rooms if it were not so, I would have told you.
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