<TITLE>33. Par -</TITLE>L-561-329 When a baby is being--a baby is being formed in a womb of a mother, soon as it's put there... See, see? But first it's a spirit. As that spirit begins to take on flesh, a little germ of life begins to take on flesh, and as soon as it drops from its... Now, in the womb, it's a little, quivering, jerking muscles. We know that. That's cells. Just like you take a horse hair and put it in the water, it'll cap over and it'll move, and you touch it and it'll jump. That's the way a baby is.
But as soon as it's borned in this world and breathes its first breath, it becomes a living soul. See? Because as soon as the earthly body is born into the world, there's a celestial body, or a spiritual body, to take ahold of it. And as soon as this natural body is dropped, there is a heavenly tabernacle waiting for it: "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, there is a heavenly tabernacle waiting for it." Just as soon as--as the baby's dropped into the earth in flesh, there's a spiritual body waiting to receive it. And as soon as the spiritual body--the natural body is dissolved, there's a spiritual body waiting yonder (See?), a theophany we call it (See?), a theophany.

L-562-330  [A brother asks, "Well, now, is that a... is that temporary, pending the resurrection of this body?"--Ed.] Yeah. See? Yeah. Oh, yes. ["That's the condition that we're going to live in until this resurrection?"--Ed.] That's right. See, see?
It's not revealed to sons of men yet. I believe... I--I know I saw it. See? But I don't know what kind of a body it is, but I could feel them just the same as I feeled your hands or anything else. 'Course this is on tape, and you may be playing it years after I'm gone. See? But... And that, whatever it was (See?), I was--I was holding those people and catching them, and it was just as real as--as you're real, and yet it wasn't... They didn't eat nor drink. There was no yesterday nor tomorrow. See, it was eternity.

L-562-332 And now, when that tabernacle... They left there in that body, they come back to the earth, and that type of a body they had took on immortality. The--the dust of the earth gathered into that theophany of somehow, and they become human again, had to eat like they did in the garden of Eden. See? "But if this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting."
So these little children that had no sin (See?), no sin yet, their angels, their "bodies" (the one that Peter had come back in... ) see, was waiting. "Beholding the Father's face, in Heaven," it's always before Him; "they know it," there it is.

L-562-334 [A brother says, "But it was a little bit difficult there where Jesus said, in the first part of His resurrection, He said, 'Touch Me not,' He had not yet ascended up. And then when He came in the room where Thomas was, He says, 'Come over here and thrust your hand in My side.'"--Ed.] That's right, He hadn't ascended up yet. ["And the difference of the two, where the one He told them not to touch Him, and over there He told Thomas to come there."] He hadn't never ascended up yet. You see? He... ["'For I have not yet ascended to My Father.'"--Ed.]
That's right. See, He wasn't to be touched until He--after His resurrection. He had come out from the earth. You see? He come out from the earth and was walking among men, but He had not yet ascended. He said... He told Mary; He said, "Don't touch Me."
She said, "Rabboni."
He said, "Touch... Don't touch Me, for I've not yet ascended to the Father. But I ascend to My God and to your God, to My Father and your Father."
And then that night, after He'd done went up before God, and had rose from the dead, went up before God, coming back, He invited Thomas to come touch His side. See, He had ascended up in before God. That's right. Okay.


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