{"id":37217,"date":"2022-09-13T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-did-jesus-go-up-to-heaven-in-spirit-form-or-fleshly-since-flesh-and-blood-cannot-enter-heaven\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:29:17","slug":"how-did-jesus-go-up-to-heaven-in-spirit-form-or-fleshly-since-flesh-and-blood-cannot-enter-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-did-jesus-go-up-to-heaven-in-spirit-form-or-fleshly-since-flesh-and-blood-cannot-enter-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Jesus go up to heaven in spirit form or fleshly since flesh and blood cannot enter heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The question contains the correct thought that Jesus was in spirit form when he went to heaven as the referenced scripture reads in I Corinthians &nbsp;15: 50 &ldquo;<strong>Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;<\/strong><strong>&hellip;&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So when the Apostles and disciples saw Jesus after he was crucified, what did they see? Was it flesh or spirit? We do know that it wasn&rsquo;t the same body he had before he died because he wasn&rsquo;t immediately recognized. For example, when Mary Magdalene was at the tomb, &ldquo;&hellip;she turned herself back, and <strong>saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.<\/strong>&rdquo;(John 20:14-16). Yet, when the disciples were together in a closed room, Jesus appeared and said to Thomas, &ldquo;Reach here your finger and see my hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.&rdquo; John 20:27. In the first example, Jesus did not have a body that looked like his former body. In the latter case, Jesus was recognized and he had the wounds from the cross. How can these two accounts be harmonized?<\/p>\n<p>We are aware of many times where the spirit angels appeared as men. Likewise, <strong>Jesus was a spirit that took on a fleshly form when he appeared<\/strong> to his Apostles\/disciples because twice he appeared in a closed room, and left without opening the door. (John 20:19 and 20:26). <strong>Spirits have the ability to go through walls and doors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>Jesus, the spirit that went up to heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question contains the correct thought that Jesus was in spirit form when he went to heaven as the referenced scripture reads in I Corinthians &nbsp;15: 50 &ldquo;Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;&hellip;&rdquo; So when the Apostles and disciples saw Jesus after he was crucified, what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/how-did-jesus-go-up-to-heaven-in-spirit-form-or-fleshly-since-flesh-and-blood-cannot-enter-heaven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How did Jesus go up to heaven in spirit form or fleshly since flesh and blood cannot enter heaven?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}