Wednesday | 22 October 2025
Jesus explained to His disciples that, through His offering, He would prepare a dwelling place for them, saying, ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.’ Joh 14:2-4.
The substance of our heavenly body was formed, or prepared, by Christ in secret, in the lowest parts of the earth. This happened when He fulfilled all the works that belong to our name as a son of God ‘in the lowest parts of the earth’. Psa 139:15-16. Christ did this as the Son of Man who was progressively being glorified with the glory that He had before as Yahweh Son, as He journeyed from Gethsemane to Calvary. He was able to fulfil the works of our names as sons of God, for He, as Yahweh Son, is the substance and expression of all sonship.
The point for us to understand is that the heavenly body is drawn from the substance and image of Yahweh Son. This body is a dwelling place in the heavenly Jerusalem, the bride of Christ. The substance of this heavenly body, as a part of His bride, was made available when Christ’s immortal, incorruptible body was pierced with the soldier’s spear, causing water, blood and Spirit to flow from His side. We recognise that these elements are the ‘rib’ from which the woman, drawn from the body of Christ, is formed. By the Spirit, as we maintain our fellowship in the travail of Christ, we are progressively being drawn from His substance. We are changing into His image as a son of God, and we are being sanctified and cleansed as part of His bride. Through this process, our heavenly body, which is hidden with Christ in God, is being progressively glorified.
Further Study:
2 Corinthians 5
References:
Joh 14:2-4
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.
Psa 139:15-16
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.