The Bible predicts in the coming future, a coming instant where born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ shall put on a glorious and incorruptible body that is fit for heaven and shall be ushered to meet our Lord in the heavens. Theologians call this the rapture of the church where the believers are caught up to heaven. Just as Enoch in the book of Genesis was taken to heaven bodily.

God’s work of redemption for fallen men is meant to rescue them from hell to heaven. The earthy, the man that lives upon earth, that is cursed to an unavoidable death, has a reprieve. And the earthy is starkly contrasted with the heavenly. The curse of the earthy is contrasted with the blessing of the heavenly.

Contrast is made with the glories of the bodies of sun and stars, and moon that God has made in the heavens above and the things that he has made on earth beneath, the birds, the animals, and the fishes. This contrast is made to distinguish our present physical body and the glorified body that we will receive from the Lord when He returns to bring us to glory.

This is the hope of the believer as one age and sees the decay of the earthly body. God will create anew a superior body for every believer. To the believer, there is no loss for him in the final equation in the light of eternity because God has promised to him a glorified body that will not decay and wear out like the earthly body.