The Rapture & the New Home Awaiting us. Mansions?
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The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 3339. μεταμορφόω metamorphóō
Used of the Lord’s transfiguration on the mount (Matt. 17:2; Mark 9:2) involving the miracle of transformation from an earthly form into a supernatural form which was externally denoted by the radiance of His garments and countenance. This
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
But he spake of the temple of his body.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
In 1 cor 6.19, the commentator considers the temple of the Holy Spirit is a metaphor?! See below:
(IV) Metaphorically, of persons in whom God or His Spirit is said to dwell or act, e.g., the body of Jesus (John 2:19, 21); of Christians (1 Cor. 3:16, 17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21).
This suggests what the bodies of the righteous may be like as a result of the resurrection of our bodies (1 Cor. 15:51f.). In Rom. 12:2 and 2 Cor. 3:18, the idea of transformation refers to an invisible process in Christians which takes place or begins to take place during their life in this age.
4636. σκῆνος skḗnos; gen . skḗnous, neut. noun. A booth, tent, tabernacle. In the NT , also used figuratively for the body as the frail and temporary abode of the soul (2 Cor. 5:1, meaning this earthly house or tabernacle, the gen . here being appositional [see 5:4]). Equivalent to skēnḗ (4633), tent, tabernacle, habitation.1gen gen (genitive)
NT NT (New Testament)
gen gen (genitive)
1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.
(II) Metaphorically used of the soul as clothed with the body (2 Cor. 5:3; see Job 10:11); of a person as clothed, i.e., endued, furnished with any power, quality (Luke 24:49; 1 Cor. 15:53, 54 referring to incorruptibility and immortality;
Also in Rev 21.2, the New Jerusalem as the temple of God! The skene (skin). G4633.
Our new bodies go into the Holy City; not into the fluffy clouds!!
4633. σκηνή skēnḗ; gen . skēnḗs, fem. noun. A booth, hut, tabernacle, tent, any covered or shaded place. Equivalent to skḗnos (4636), tent, human body1.
4636. σκῆνος skḗnos; gen . skḗnous, neut. noun. A booth, tent, tabernacle. In the NT , also used figuratively for the body as the frail and temporary abode of the soul (2 Cor. 5:1, meaning this earthly house or tabernacle, the gen . here being appositional [see 5:4]). Equivalent to skēnḗ (4633), tent, tabernacle, habitation.1gen gen (genitive)
NT NT (New Testament)
gen gen (genitive)
1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.
1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.
(A) Particularly (Matt. 28:6; Mark 16:6; Luke 2:7; 14:9, 10, 22; John 20:7; Acts 7:33; Heb. 8:7; Rev. 2:5; 6:14; 20:11; Sept . Gen. 24:23; 1 Kgs. 8:6, 7; Prov. 25:6). In Luke 14:9, to give place to someone means to make room. See Rom. 12:19; Eph. 4:27. Of things, as a place where something is kept such as a sword, meaning a sheath, scabbard (Matt. 26:52).1Sept Sept (Septuagint)
1 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.
11 Zodhiates, S. (2000) The complete word study dictionary: New Testament. electronic ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers.