Perspective of being never-ending vehicle

Just like God used His hands to form Adam out of the dust of the ground and fashion him with an intricate cardiovascular system, respiratory system, muscular system, nervous system, etc., He’s going to do the very same thing with our resurrection body.

“That body you now have is literally going be beyond comprehension then,” assures Jordan. “If you think you’re fearfully and wonderfully made now, just wait ’til you see what’s coming—the systems of the new body will be SO far in advance beyond!”

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“Adam was given this garment of light, but the light Adam had wasn’t just this blazing white light coming off of him—‘Hold it back, I can’t see him!’

“In Ezekiel 1, when you see the appearance of the glory of God, it’s described as a rainbow. And you know what a rainbow is? The word is ‘refracted.’ Not reflected, but refracted. It’s bent light so that the colors of the light spectrum are seen.

“Literally, the throne of God in the ‘third heaven,’ when you see it, the light that comes around it is like a rainbow. It’s this dazzling array of light.

"God Himself lives in the ‘coat of many colors,’ as it were, and He gave it to His representatives in the earth—those special people who were loved and represented Him.”

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The Old and New testaments are sprinkled with references to God’s own body features—His head with hair, His face, His eyes, His mouth, His lips, His voice, His nose and nostrils, His hands, His fingers, His feet.

The Apostle Paul tells us in II Corinthians 5 that “we know if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

Jordan explains, “That’s where you’re going to be for eternity and that’s why your body is important. Your earthly body is not just some cloth you exist in—some hapless prison, some meaningless abode that you live in. It has an integral purpose in the plan of God because it’s the vehicle in which He put you, without which you’re not complete.

“It’s a required part of your humanity and will be a required part of your glorification in order for you to function in the purpose God has for you. It’s the vehicle of your inner man; the home for your soul and it’s necessary to your soul’s full action and function.

“And that’s why in the intermediate state between death and the resurrection you’re found naked. That is, you’re not ready to go to work yet.

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“Paul tells us that what gave him a new perspective on what life was to be in his current body was the knowledge that the Lord will ‘change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.’

“He writes in II Corinthians 5, ‘For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

[4] For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

[5] Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

[6] Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

[7] (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

[8] We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

“Paul’s saying, ‘This hope I have out here, it’s not making me have suicidal kinds of ideas; it’s not making me where I’m discontent with down here and can’t stand to be here. I’ve got a new perspective on what life here is all about. And my living here— I live with eternity in view; I live with the perspective of what’s real, lasting and never-ending.’ ”