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Nobody really knows for sure, because there's nothing in the Bible explaining this, but this might be one explanation: Our carnal, fleshly bodies won't play a role in our "rising" because they were either old, diseased, decrepit, crippled, mangled or decayed. It is our SPIRITS that will be rising, and we'll be receiving brand new "bodies" - ones that will last eternally, unlike our present flesh. Whether or not we'll actually get to look like our old selves is debatable, and we'll know when that time comes.
Genesis 3: 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
Notice in the above verse it says we came from dust and will return to dust; this is one reason why we will immediately go to heaven when we die; we will ALL have to wait until the "rapture" which happens upon Yeshua's return and "the dead in Messiah will rise first" and then those believers who are alive - those who knew Yeshua AND kept His Torah:
Revelation 12: 17. And the dragon was enraged against the woman; and he went to make war upon the remnant of her seed who keep the Commandments of Elohim and have the testimony of Y'shua.
Revelation 14: 12. Here is the patience of the Set Apart believers who keep the commandments of Elohim, and the faith of Y'shua.
Plus, if "the dead in Messiah shall rise first" (I Thess 4:16) and the rest of us immediately thereafter, then the dead can't have gone to heaven immediately after death.
The ONLY grave that was ever empty immediately (after three days) was Yeshua's. Dig up any grave today, and people are still there. I think our old fleshly bodies will remain here to completely decay.
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