There remains but one question to be considered and we can deal with that very briefly. That question is, when will the resurrection of the body take place? This question is plainly answered time and again in the Bible. For example, it is answered in Phil. 3:20, 21: +"For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself."+ Here it is plainly declared that _the transformation of our bodies into the likeness of the glorious body of Christ will take place when the Lord Jesus whom we are awaiting shall appear from heaven_. The same thought is given in I Thess. 4:16, 17: +"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; then we which are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."+ The question will arise in some of our minds, what about us in the meantime if we chance to die before the coming of the Lord? This question also is plainly answered in II Cor. 5:1-8: +"For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle+ (our present bodies) +be dissolved+ (die and decay) +we have a building from God, a house not made with hands+ (our resurrection body that we are to get at the coming of the Lord), +eternal, in the heavens. For verily in this+ (i.e., while living in this present body) +we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven+ (our resurrection body) +if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For indeed we that are in this tabernacle+ (this present earthy body) +do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed+ (i.e., not that we would merely get rid of our present bodies), +but that we would be clothed upon+ (i.e., that we would receive our resurrection bodies) +that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life. Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit+ (i.e., the Holy Ghost, whom we have received as the earnest of the full redemption in our resurrection bodies which are to be obtained at the coming of the Lord). +Being therefore always of good courage and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body+ (i.e., while we are still in our earthly life in this present earthly body) +we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith not by sight); we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body+ (i.e., to have our present earthly body die even before we get our resurrection bodies, which we shall not get until the return of the Lord), +and to be at home with the Lord."+ The teaching of this plainly is that if we die before the return of the Lord and