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Resurrection of the dead

will be has not yet been made known. But we know that
when He appears we shall be like Him...'

Though part of this passage of scripture shows that Jesus
Christ will give us an unsinning nature, like his own, it
also says that what we will be like in the future is not yet
known.
The process that took place with Christ's death and
resurrection began as He cried out with a loud voice, Luke
23 v46 'Father into your hands I commit my spirit.'

The Bible explains what happenened next, in 1Peter 3
v18,19 'He was put to death in the body but made alive in
the Spirit, through whom also He went and preached to
the spirits in prison,......' Jesus went down to Hades, the
place of the departed spirits of the wicked. In saying that He
preached, this suggests that He made known that the atoning
work through His death had finally been accomplished.

From there He ascended 1Peter 3 v21,22 '... Jesus Christ,
who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand
with angels, authorities and powers in submission to
Him.' And at this point Jesus was reunited, with His new
body.

This is the pattern for christians, that at the last day, the
spirits of those who have died will be reunited with their body,
now made perfect.

How this will differ from our bodies now, is not known. All that
is known is that 'we shall be like Him' and 'what we will be
has not yet been made known'.

What is known is that when a christian dies he or she goes
into the presence of God. Paul explains this in 2Corinthians
5 v6 & 8 'Therefore we are always confident and know

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