4-2. Comparison of the bodies of humans and (criminal) angels

 4-2. Comparison of the bodies of humans and (criminal) angels

 

Humans are a combination of a spirit from God and a body made of earth. When the body dies, the spirit and the body are separated. So the body returns to the earth, and the spirit returns to God.

The spirit that entered the human body is the spirit of an angel from heaven. The fallen angels in the kingdom of God originally wore a spiritual body. The spirit taking off its body is expressed as being naked. Genesis 3:6-7 "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and did eat. She also gave some to her husband with her, and he did eat. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons."

The spirit must wear something to avoid being naked. The man and woman (spirits of the angels who sinned) who ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil made themselves aprons with fig leaves, and the fig tree symbolizes the law that represents sin. Therefore, the statement that they made themselves aprons with fig leaves means that they wore a body of sin.

Humans who wear the body of sin are passed down from generation to generation. The body of sin that came from the first man Adam came to Jesus Christ. Jesus, as Christ, had to cut off this body of sin. That is why he made the sinful angels who came into the world return to the kingdom of God. Death on the cross is the death of the body of sin. Romans 6:6 says, “For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.” Jesus’ spirit is also imprisoned in the flesh. The flesh inherited the body of sin from Mary. Therefore, this body of sin must die in order to save the spirits of the sinful angels.

Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected. Resurrection is returning to the previous state. Jesus came down from heaven. He was a spiritual being in heaven, but Jesus took off his spiritual body and came into a physical body. So when his physical body died on the cross, he was resurrected into a spiritual body. This is resurrection.

All who repent and turn to God are united with Jesus and believe that they will be resurrected with Him through His death on the cross. Romans 6:5 says, “For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection.”

Therefore, angels in the world have the appearance of human bodies, but in the kingdom of God, the bodies of angels are spirits wearing spiritual bodies. Human bodies are subject to the limitations of time and space. However, the bodies of angels are not subject to the limitations of time and space. Through the Bible, we can see that the resurrected Jesus’ body was transformed or that he suddenly appeared to his disciples through a wall. John 20:19 “Then on the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’”

The same goes for the bodies of angels. Genesis 19:1-2 "Then two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. He said, 'Sirs, turn in here and come into your servant's house. Wash your feet and spend the night; then rise early and go on your way.' But they said, 'No, but we will spend the night in the street.'" Two angels suddenly appear to Lot and have a conversation.

In the Bible, angels suddenly appear to people and then disappear. The angel who appeared to Mary announced that she would conceive by the Holy Spirit and then disappeared. This is not a vision, but a spirit that moves freely through time and space because it has a body.

Those who believe that they died on the cross with Jesus and were resurrected with Him also have a spiritual body. Ephesians 2:5-6 says, “Even when we were dead in trespasses, 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 realms in Christ Jesus.” The spiritual bodies of the saints are seated in heaven. However, since the actual physical body is in the world, the saints cannot feel it. They will feel it when their physical body dies. They only know that it has happened through faith.


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