God CREATED the CELESTIAL (HEAVENLY) BODIES on the FOURTH
DAY, i.e. the SUN and the MOON and the STARS - to be LIGHTS to divide the DAY from the NIGHT and to give LIGHT
upon the EARTH and God "saw that it was GOOD" (Genesis 1:14-19)
God CREATED the TERRESTRIAL (EARTHLY) BODIES on the FIFTH
DAY, i.e. the FOWL of the AIR and the FISH of the SEA and the BEASTS of the EARTH and God "saw that it was
GOOD" (Genesis 1:20-25)
God likens the DIFFERENT DEGREES within a SPHERE of RESURRECTION
GLORY (I Corinthians 15:42) to the DIFFERENT DEGREES within a SPHERE of CREATION GLORY (I Corinthians 15:41)
God CREATED two GREAT LIGHTS in the HEAVENS - the SUN
as the GREATER LIGHT to rule the DAY and the MOON as the LESSER LIGHT to rule the NIGHT (Genesis 1:16)
In the NEW HEAVEN and the NEW EARTH (Revelation 21:1)
- there will be "NO need of the SUN, NEITHER of the MOON, for the GLORY of GOD did LIGHTEN it, and the LAMB
is the LIGHT thereof" (Revelation 21:23;Revelation 22:5)
"In the KINGDOM of their FATHER" (Matthew 13:43 cf.I Corinthians 15:28) - "shall the RIGHTEOUS SHINE forth as the SUN" (Matthew 13:43)
and "they that be WISE shall SHINE as the BRIGHTNESS of the FIRMAMENT: and they that turn many to RIGHTEOUSNESS
as the STARS for ever and ever" (Daniel 12:3)
The HEAVENLY TABERNACLE will be a VERTICAL TABERNACLE
consisting of THREE HORIZONTAL LEVELS of RESURRECTION GLORY:
The HIGHEST GLORY is described as "the HEAVENLY PLACES"
(Ephesians 1:3;Ephesians 2:6)
- literally "the HEAVEN ABOVE the HEAVENS" - there "FAR ABOVE ALL" (Ephesians 1:21)
- "the CHURCH, which is His BODY" (Ephesians 1:22-23) will be on ETERNAL DISPLAY as "the EXCEEDING WEALTH of His GRACE"
(Ephesians 2:7)
The INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS of the BODY OF CHRIST (I Corinthians 12:27)
are COLLECTIVELY called by the NAME of their HEAD, "THE CHRIST" (I Corinthians 12:12) - just as EVE was called by the NAME of her HEAD, "ADAM"
(Genesis 5:2)
- in both cases, the NAME was expressive of their SHARED DOMINION over ALL THINGS (Ephesians 1:22-23 cf. Genesis 1:27-28)
ALL MEMBERS will LIVE as "HEIRS of God", but
NOT ALL MEMBERS shall REIGN as "JOINT-HEIRS (CO-HEIRS) with Christ" (Romans 8:16-17 cf. II Timothy 2:11-12), i.e. NOT ALL MEMBERS shall RECEIVE the PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING in
Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14), which is AWARDED for the partaking of "the FELLOWSHIP of His
SUFFERINGS" (Philippians 3:10)
NEXT, will be "that GREAT CITY, the HOLY JERUSALEM,
DESCENDING OUT OF HEAVEN" (Revelation 21:2,10) - the HEAVENLY CITY prepared by God (Hebrews 11:16), i.e "the CITY of the LIVING GOD" (Hebrews 12:22)
This is "the HEAVENLY CALLING" of the "HOLY
BRETHREN" (Hebrews 3:1)
- reserved for the JEWISH (Revelation 2:9;Revelation 3:9)
TRIBULATION OVERCOMERS (Revelation 12:11) and their "BRETHREN, the PROPHETS" who are their "EXAMPLE
of SUFFERING AFFLICTION" (James 5:10)
in "NOT ACCEPTING DELIVERANCE; that they might OBTAIN a BETTER RESURRECTION" (Hebrews 11:35)