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(10) Glorification...receiving our Resurrection Bodies...

Christ redeemed us as a whole person, we have been give a new heart and a new spirit has been placed within us, yet we are still subject to death and decay because our bodies remain unchanged. However, God has promised that we will be changed to become like Christ, which means we will ultimately receive a new Resurrection body that shall not perish or decay.

Glorification is the final step in the application of redemption. It happens when Christ returns, and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers for all time who have died, and reunites them with their souls / spirits, and changes the bodies of believers who remain alive, thereby giving all believers at the same time perfect resurrection bodies like His own.

"Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed...(1 Cor. 15:51-52)...and..."For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words." (1 Thess. 4:16-17)

As believers, we can be sure of the fact that Christ will return, and we will be changed to be like Him, do not hold onto the things of this world, for this is not our home, nor our final destiny: "But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our body to be like His glorious body, by the power which enables Him to subject all things to Himself." (Phil. 3:20)

The Apostle Paul is correct when he says: "For those He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He has called, He also justified, and those whom He justified, He also glorified" (Rom. 8:28-30)