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93. More about Resurrection

15th September 2000 by Arthur Eedle

(This article has been changed since March 2008 as a result of circumstances displayed in Wellspring 70)

In the last number I wrote about the beauties and joys of resurrection, the state we are awaiting with much longing. In this number, I should like to quote from a few testimonies, reproduced from chapter 27 of a book I am currently writing, entitled “Mysteries of Science and Faith.” The chapter is entitled “Caught up to Heaven.”

1. Sadhu Sundar Singh’s story is quite well known. But his frequent excursions into heavenly places are less known.  In fact he was repeatedly caught up to heaven in visions, some of which have been recorded.

“I was told there [i.e. in heaven] that Christians leave behind them the physical body. The body is buried, but the spiritual body that is within them is then free to come out, and in this [spiritual body] we go to heaven. In the case of those caught up without dying, the physical body is completely spiritualised, for flesh and blood cannot inherit eternal life, but it is the same physical body, only completely transformed. I asked whether this applied to Enoch and Elijah, and was told ‘Yes’. An angel told me, ‘The body that you see is the soul, or spiritual body, possessed while in the temple of flesh on earth.’”

2. William Booth, (1829 – 1912) was the founder of the Salvation Army. He was born in Nottingham and became an itinerant Methodist preacher, but eventually left Methodism to work amongst the poor, establishing a mission in Whitechapel, London, in 1865. The established churches were reluctant to accept his slum converts, and so he eventually formed the Salvation Army in 1877, with himself as “General.” But whereas many have read about his work and his life, few know that he received a vision of heaven, and so here is a brief extract from his writing.

Though attempting to describe a person redeemed from the earth as he appeared in his spiritual form in heaven, Booth said,“Describe the shape, the features and bearing of this noble form I cannot, and will not attempt it. He was at the same time earthly and celestial. I discovered, therefore, at a glance that he was one of the blood-washed multitude, and I not only judged from a certain majestic appearance, which he bore, but from instinct, I felt that the being before me was a man, a redeemed and glorified man. He looked at me and I could not help but return his gaze. His eyes compelled me, and in doing so I confessed to being ravished by his beauty. I could never have believed the human face divine could have borne so grave a stamp of dignity and charm, but far beyond the entrancing love-lines of those celestial features was the expression through every ligament of that countenance, and through those eyes that were gazing upon me. It was as though that face was only a sun-lit window through which I could see into the depths of the pure benevolent soul within. He spoke first. Had he not done so I could never have summoned courage to address him. His voice was soft and musical and fitted well with the seriousness of his aspect.”

Concerning a certain lady he met in the heavenly vision, General Booth wrote as follows – “She told me her name. I had heard it on earth. She was a widow who had struggled through great difficulties. After her husband’s death she had given herself up unreservedly to fight for the Lord. Her children had been her first care and all but one had been saved.

“There was a dignity of bearing of inward power, the same marvellous expression and purity and joy as in the case of the man just described, but in this case combined (I could imagine) with a beauty of more delicate and enthralling mould. Beautiful as I thought my first visitor to be, more beautiful than conception or dream of earth could be, yet here was a beauty that surpassed it – not, perhaps if judged from inherent rules, but judged from my standpoint. My former visitor, I have said, was a glorious man; this was the more glorified form of a woman.

“I had, when on earth, sometimes thought I could have wished the privilege of beholding Eve in the hour when she came forth from the hands of her Maker, and I had imagined something – only something, of what her beautiful form must have been as she sprang into being on that bridal morning, young and pure and beautiful – perhaps the sweetest work of God. No, here I saw her – I saw Eve reproduced before my eyes as young, pure and beautiful, nay, more beautiful than her first mother could possibly have been, for was not this God’s finished workmanship?”

But some who read these lines will be asking, “Surely, these people are not in their resurrection bodies yet?” Indeed, no. But the following extract will be helpful here, in order to clarify the matter.

3. In the writings of  H.A.Baker we find his description of the salvation and subsequent filling with the power of the Holy Spirit of a group of over twenty Chinese orphan children, varying in age between 8 and 18, in the years prior to the Communist take-over in China. Baker and his wife Josephine were working there in the south-west corner of Yunnan, the most south-west province of China, in a little town called Kotchiu, having about 5000 inhabitants.

During the days when the Spirit’s power fell upon these “street urchins,” now washed in the precious blood of Christ, they were taken up to heaven in vision and in the spirit, much as the Apostle John was when he wrote the Revelation. And like General Booth, they had converse with some of the redeemed from earth who had died in former years. On returning from their “heavenly adventures” Baker quizzed them extensively about the experience, comparing their answers with the Scriptures he knew so well. Although the orphans were illiterate, unlearned, and had only that brief knowledge of the Bible which they had heard at the Adullam Home, they gave accurate answers, and each confirmed the next about what they saw. This became the subject of Baker’s best-selling book, “Visions beyond the Veil”, together with his other lesser-known works–  (“Heaven and the Angels”, & “Planes of Glory and Gloom”) This is what Baker had to say –

“I have already told how our children had visions of some of our Adullam people already dead and now in heaven, clothed in white and enjoying Paradise, and of their seeing the saints of old clothed in white. The Scripture teaches that between death and the resurrection the saints have spiritual bodies and are clothed in white. (Rev. 6:9-11) When I cross-questioned the children as to how they knew whether the saints they saw in heaven had been resurrected or not, they said they did not know until the angels told them that they saw only the souls of the saints and that their bodies had not been resurrected. I questioned and cross-questioned in some of these matters and always got a uniform testimony.”

Here then is the answer to a puzzle that has perplexed a number of students of the Word of God. They accept that in vision and in near-death experiences, people have seen white-robed saints, but have doubted the testimony insofar as it seems to contradict the Scriptural statements about the day of resurrection. But apparently in this interim period the “soul” is clothed upon with a form that enables recognition and is a sort of foretaste of the resurrection body, whereby the saints may have converse with each other in those higher regions.

 

Filed Under: The Wayside Pulpit Tagged With: Resurrection and the Change

About Arthur Eedle

Arthur was born in 1931, and became a Christian in 1948. At London University he gained a 2nd honours degree in Physics. He went on to get a Teaching Diploma, and throughout his career life taught physics in England, Kenya, and Hong Kong. Coupled with his love of science, he was a keen student of Greek and Hebrew, and gave many lectures on Biblical subjects. Read more

The Wayside Pulpit

1. Introduction

11th May 1999 By Arthur Eedle

2. Rave Music

13th May 1999 By Arthur Eedle

3. “I know you”

13th June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

4. God of all men

15th June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

5. Truth and Error

21st June 1999 By Arthur Eedle

6. Ruth Prince

2nd July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

7. Talking Trees

3rd July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

8. Dangers of rock music

6th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

9. True Worship

9th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

10. A wonderful building

11th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

11. Traits of the self-life

15th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

12. 100 Pianos

28th July 1999 By Arthur Eedle

13. “Much more” & “No more”

5th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

14. Evangelism and the second advent

8th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

15. Tribute to Ron Wyatt

10th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

16. The opening of the Kansas Senate in the USA

12th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

17. The face of feminism

14th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

18. The second coming of Elijah

19th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

19. Mellowing with age

21st August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

20. The rationality of the Christian faith

24th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

21. The first and the lost

28th August 1999 By Arthur Eedle

22. The coming of the Lord

2nd September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

23. “I am coming tomorrow!”

4th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

24. Living stones for a spiritual temple

7th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

25. Rosh Hashana – the feast of trumpets

10th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

26. A Tribute to the Rock-Badger’s Family

14th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

27. The Cursed Fig Tree

17th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

28. “Tell me the old, old story”

19th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

29. A Sovereign Work

22nd September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

30. Today is the Secret of Tomorrow

24th September 1999 By Arthur Eedle

31. Neatly Packaged Boxes and Illuminated Signposts

1st October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

32. “In danger of hell fire”

3rd October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

33. The Silent Witness

5th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

34. The Lesson of Amos

8th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

35. The Great Tribulation

11th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

36. “Until”

14th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

37. The Unnerving Power of Tradition

18th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

37a. The Explorer

19th October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

38. The Dart Family

22nd October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

39. “Nothing new under the Sun”

31st October 1999 By Arthur Eedle

40. “When the Stars begin to fall”

1st November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

41. The Coming of the Christ

3rd November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

42. “Like unto Moses.”

6th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

43. “Sweet Revenge!”

7th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

44. The Second Coming

14th November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

45. Forgiveness & Punishment

23rd November 1999 By Arthur Eedle

47. The Pattern and Purpose of the Cherubim

2nd December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

48. The Unforgivable Sin

4th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

49. Japhah, the Beautiful One

5th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

50. Resurrection by Judgement

11th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

51. “The Saviour of Mankind”

17th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

52. “Bad Associations corrupt Good Customs”

29th December 1999 By Arthur Eedle

53. Fingerprints and Irises

2nd January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

54. Cats, Dogs and Philodendrons

4th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

55. The Second Eve

15th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

56. The Illuminati

22nd January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

57. The Dark Day of May 19th 1780

24th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

58. Hidden Significances

26th January 2000 By Arthur Eedle

59. “Before”

5th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

60. When “shall” becomes “will”

10th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

61. The Death of the Husband

13th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

63. St. Paul the Abortion

25th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

64. The Moral Dilemma

27th February 2000 By Arthur Eedle

65. The Moral Dilemma. A Personal Answer

1st March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

66. The Moral Dilemma. A Second Answer

4th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

67. The Joy of our Salvation

11th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

68. The love of God

16th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

69. The Windows of the Soul

28th March 2000 By Arthur Eedle

70. Vision & Prophecy

2nd April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

71. Confusion

12th April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

72. Creation’s Vanity

18th April 2000 By Arthur Eedle

73. “Friend, move up higher!”

2nd May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

74. The Last Generation

25th May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

75. The House of the Soul

29th May 2000 By Arthur Eedle

76. The Opening of the Sheath

1st June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

77. Possession

2nd June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

78. Ancestral Bondage

5th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

79. The State of the Dead

7th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

80. Professor William Barclay

10th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

81. The Unacceptable Face of Universalism

12th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

82. No Escape from the Fire

21st June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

83. My Help

22nd June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

84. Our Stories

27th June 2000 By Arthur Eedle

85. Filling up that which is lacking

9th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

86. Road Rage

15th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

87. Immanuel

19th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

88. Daughters of Thunder

27th July 2000 By Arthur Eedle

89. Casting off all Restraint

1st August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

90. Food, glorious Food!

3rd August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

91. The Kindly Laws of the Old Testament

7th August 2000 By Arthur Eedle

92. Resurrection

2nd September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

93. More about Resurrection

15th September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

94. “With what body do they come?”

22nd September 2000 By Arthur Eedle

95. One Helluva Hole

9th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

96. A Whale of a Tale

10th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

97. The Hallelujah Chorus

11th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

98. “It never even entered my mind.”

16th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

99. A Passionate Plea for Truth

18th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

100. Warfare in the Heavenlies

20th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

101. “The Lamb and Flag”

27th October 2000 By Arthur Eedle

102. Souls of men

1st November 2000 By Arthur Eedle

103. Sacrifice

4th November 2000 By Arthur Eedle

106. For whom did Christ die?

16th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

107. “I cannot tell . . . but this I know.”

18th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

108. The Great Cloud of Witnesses

19th December 2000 By Arthur Eedle

109. The law of circularity

10th January 2001 By Arthur Eedle

110. James Relly & John Murray

13th January 2001 By Arthur Eedle

Article Series

  • All our Yesterdays (30)
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  • God's Spoken Word (37)
  • Mysteries of Science & Faith (8)
  • New Series (101)
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  • Original Series (109)
  • Prophecy considerations (5)
  • Recognising the Hand of Judgment (33)
  • Resurrection and Change (16)
  • Seekers Corner (14)
  • Simple Statements on Serious Subjects (6)
  • The City of God (18)
  • The Millennial Octave (23)
  • The Restitution Times (22)
  • The Song of Solomon (6)
  • The Standard (19)
  • The Wayside Pulpit (107)
  • The Wayside Pulpit 2015 (96)
  • The Wellspring (101)
  • The Wellspring 2017 (55)

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Arthur & Rosalind Eedle's Personal Testimonies Discipleship Expository Items Good and Evil Human Pre-Existance Jane Leade. Philadelphian Numerology in the Bible Quotations from other Authors Resurrection and the Change Ron Wyatt. Archaeology Science Topics The Kingdom of God the Millennium and the Return of Christ The Sabbath Day Universal Reconcilliation

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