Question 86. What is the communion of glory with Christ that the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?

 

Question 86. What is the communion of glory with Christ that the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?

Answer. The communion of glory that the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death is that their souls are made safe and holy, and are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God in light and glory, and await the full redemption of their bodies, which, although dead, continue to be united to Christ, and rest in their graves as in a bed, until they are reunited with their souls at the last day. The souls of the wicked are cast into hell at death, where they remain in torment and darkness, while their bodies are kept in their graves as in prisons, until the resurrection and judgment of the great day.

 

Saints are those who are united with Jesus Christ while they are alive and form the kingdom of God. Since saints are united with Jesus Christ, they are considered to have done the same things Jesus did. Since Jesus was baptized, saints are also baptized. Baptism signifies the death and resurrection of the cross, and they are united with the death and resurrection of Jesus. And Jesus ascended to heaven, and saints are also seated in heaven.

The saints become dead with their physical body, but alive with their spiritual body. Therefore, because of the separation of the spirit and the flesh, even though the body is alive, the physical body (the body of sin: the old man) dies, and is resurrected with a spiritual body and sits at the right hand of God in Christ.

Ephesians 2:5-6 Even when we were dead in trespasses (parathomas), made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Paraptomasin is derived from parahatto, which means to fall aside, to be transformed. Insects undergo a metamorphosis process, and in order for a larva to become an adult, it sheds its skin. When it sheds its skin, the life inside it comes out, and the skin falls off. For a believer, the flesh is like shedding its skin. If a believer thinks of the skin as himself, the spirit is dead. However, when the spirit comes to life, the skin becomes meaningless. The spirit died because of the skin, but when it is united with Jesus Christ, the fleshly body, which is like the skin, dies, and the spirit comes to life and rises with Jesus.

While the saints are alive, their spirits sit at the right hand of God in Christ, and after their physical death, they return to being angels. Luke 20:35-36 "But those who are accounted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, nor can they die any more, for they are equal to angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection."

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