Believing in the physical resurrection is essential, because it goes to the state that man will occupy Heaven and the Earth. The resurrected body of Jesus is in the same form as it was when He lived, for the most part. To be more specific Jesus was recognizable to those who knew him, so He was familiar, He did not have blood in His body, which is the essence of how God chose to enact immortality in men.

1. Is believing that Jesus' body physically rose
from the dead or rather than spiritually
essential?
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2. Believing in the physical resurrection is essential, because it goes to the state that
man will occupy Heaven and the Earth.
The resurrected body of Jesus is in the same form as it was when He lived, for the
most part. To be more specific Jesus was recognizable to those who knew him, so
He was familiar, He did not have blood in His body, which is the essence of how
God chose to enact immortality in men.
Luke 24:36-43
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your
hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath
not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye
here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
1 Corinthians 15:52-54
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory.
At the time of death, our spirits are separated from our bodies, then you go into
your judgment, Heaven or Hell, but we are rejoined with our bodies in what
Christians refer to as the rapture. There is a reason for this…
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
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3. 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
At the final judgment, all people must stand before God in the manner they were
created, in your earth suit. This is manifested at the Great White Throne
Judgment where God calls for all the bodies throughout time, to be reconstituted
from wherever they died at the time, regardless if they were devoured,
disintegrated, burned up or however the body met its doom. Once the bodies are
reconstituted the persons spirit is reconciled with their body just like the rapture
for those who went to Heaven. At this point the judgement takes place.
Revelation 20:11–15
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and
the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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4. The point here is that the significance of Jesus’ body being resurrected gives
predicate to us being resurrected as well. He is the first to go through this
experience which was in part was to show us, to reveal to us, what will happen
to us, as with the disciples encounter Jesus upon His transition. What is spiritual
about this event is how God chooses to accomplish this and the faith of those
who are saved, enabling them be raptured in the first place.
One very telling thing about how God operates, is that God does what He has
done in the past to confirm that what you are seeing or experiencing is Him. The
principles for the rapture is first seen with Elijah and the dry bones.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and
set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the
open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God,
thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold
a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin
covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold,
they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
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5. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people,
I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into
the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people,
and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own
land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
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