A couple of paragraphs from an article in this month's copy of DECISION magazine; written by Franklin Graham. The article is titled "Standing on God's Promises To Israel".

It talks about, among other things, our new bodies. As we get older, our friends and I look forward to new bodies.


"Because of the reality of Christ's resurrection, we can be sure that He will return one day soon, and His believers will have glorified bodies to go along with their redeemed souls.

"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that is may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself'. (Philippians 3:20 - 21)

"And when our resurrected Lord does return, He will not come as the suffering Messiah prophesied in Isaiah 53, but as King of kings; not as a lamb, but as the Lion of Judah, to pour out His wrath on those who have rejected and scorned Him, and to welcome all whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life. There will be a new Heaven and a new Earth, with no death, no tears, no pain, no sin.

"But until the day of King Jesus' return, we have our Risen Lord's mighty presence minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. He is with us always (Matthew 28:20). He is interceding for us when we don't even know how to pray (Hebrews 7:25). He is our Advocate before the Heavenly Father when we sin (1 John 2:1)."