we talked about the implications of the resurrection. With the resurrection comes the rolling back of the effects of sin. This means the death which Adam experienced when he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will be undone. There will not just be a physical resurrection there will be a new spiritual life which we have never been able to experience. We will function in a whole new way. We will see with both physical and spiritual eyes. We will be equipped to hear both the physical and the spiritual realm. We will touch things which have spiritual properties and yet are very real. Remember the angel which stood in Balaam’s path with a sword. That sword was made of some material which exists in the spiritual realm. It was a sword which could be used to kill Balaam. Yet that sword could not been seen or perceived by Balaam without God opening his eyes to it. The spiritual sword was a very real threat to a physical man, yet he had no way of knowing it was there or of the angel which wielded it. That will no longer be a limitation in our resurrected bodies. We will be able to eat and no doubt there will be a new realm of sensations as we taste things which have spiritual properties. Paul describes this physical spirit we will receive as life being swallowed up by life. Not only will our bodies experience a transformation as the physical spirit and physical body are united in us but all creation will be transformed. Paul talks about it in Romans the revealing of the sons of God. All of creation longs for this. When death and the curse are put away then all of creation will rejoice. The sin of Adam subjected all of creation to corruption. This will no longer be the case and the state of perfection in creation will be restored by the rulership of Jesus as the second Adam.
