At the moment of salvation, God looks into the believer’s future and
sees him as fully restored to fellowship with God in spirit, soul, and body.
God can see the believer’s future reconciliation because He never fails to save
the repentant sinner, and He never fails to sanctify the believer in spirit,
soul, and body. John 6:37; II Corinthians 3:17-18
However, in actuality God never reconciles the earthly body of the
believer, not in salvation or sanctification. The earthly body of the believer
must die as a result of sin, return to dust, and be separated from God forever.
Genesis 3:19.
But this fact does not mean that the body of the believer will be lost
forever. God will recreate the bodies of every believer and reunite them with
their recreated souls and spirits at the Rapture of the Church. At the moment
of salvation, God recreates the spirit and soul of the believer and reconciles
him to God, but not his earthly body which retains his sinful nature.
Nevertheless, God will reconcile every believer in recreated spirit, soul, and
body at the Rapture of the Church. II Corinthians 5:1-5.
This begs the question. Does the recreated body of the believer need
to be washed in the blood of Jesus since his sinful body never becomes so
washed? One must consider this question in light of salvation by grace. At the
moment of salvation, the "born again" experience with God, God
recreates the spirits and souls of believers. God does not remake the old
sinful spirits and souls. God fully recreates new spirits and souls. God washes
away the inner sinful nature of man by the blood of Jesus, so that He can
recreate a new inner nature. This same process would apply at the Rapture of
the Church. The blood of Jesus will wash away the sinful flesh of all believers
so that God can recreate the believers with perfect spirits, souls, and bodies
with whom He can fellowship with forever. II Corinthians 5:17; I Thessalonians
5:23; I Corinthians 15:50.
All of this explains that which Jesus taught in John 11:26 about how
believers never die. The earthly bodies of believers die because they are not
believers. When a believer gets saved, God recreates his soul and spirit, and
in addition, God recreates a new body for him which He keeps in heaven until He
delivers it to the believer at the Rapture of the Church. II Corinthians 5:1-5.
