"The sentence of the great Judge on the blessed will be: "Come, ye blessed of My Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matt. xxv. 34). They will at once enter upon a new life, complete in every way, perfect in happiness, and eternal. The change that takes place will not be only in their external circumstances, it will be also in themselves. The same consciousness will remain, the same memories of the past, the same bodies in which they worked and suffered; but every department of their being will be brought to perfection in ways that are beyond our present comprehension. God has not given us full enlightenment. We know that in the resurrection we shall be as the angels of God in heaven (Matt. xxii. 30). We shall possess our material bodies, yet they will be spiritualized. "The dead shall rise again incorruptible; and we shall be changed. . . . We shall all indeed rise again, but we shall not all be changed" (1 Cor. xv. 51, 52). We shall receive certain new bodily qualities which are incongruous with our present bodies; our bodies therefore must be so changed that these qualities will not be unnatural but harmonious. Thank God for such knowledge as He has given you, viz., that you will really rise again in your present body, in a state of inconceivable glory.
