“He will transform our present humble bodies to be like his glorious body.” Jesus will not declare that present physicality is redundant and can be scrapped. Nor will he simply improve it, perhaps by speeding up its evolutionary cycle. In a great act of power—the same power that accomplished Jesus’s own resurrection, as Paul says in Ephesians 1:19–20—he will change the present body into the one that corresponds in kind to his own as part of his work of bringing all things into subjection to himself.
