I suppose I have had a week to think on these things concering the resurrection of Jesus Christ:) At a funeral last Saturday, a primitive Baptist elder made the comment that there is only one in heaven with a "human body", everyone else, whom "God loves" is spirit, awaiting resurrection of the "body".
Sometimes "church speak" stimulates my thinking. So I'm thinking and looking up scriptures about about spirit vs. flesh and the resurrection. He stated this in one of His appearances:
Luke 24:39
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Of course we are being told about a Glorified, immortal, incorruptible "body", and Jesus, as God, can appear in any way He sees fit. In my tiny mind, that is the only explanation I can think of. It is marvelous, the resurrection. Fascinating! After His resurrection, no one knew Him by sight....it was the sound of His voice and the connection to His Spirit that brought that fact into revelation. After all, His sheep know His Voice and His Spirit.
In John's account of the resurrection, Jesus breathed on the disciples and said "receive ye the Holy Ghost". I am assuming since He spoke, it was done. Evidently, He had the power to impart the Holy Spirit after His resurrection and "ascending" to the Father, while he was still on the earth. Or is this a spurious scripture. I haven't looked.
John 20:22
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
(KJV)
John 14:26
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
(KJV)
Wishing you all rest in the blessed hope of the resurrection,
Barbara
The most important aspect of this verse is that the Father gave him the command. The temple he is speaking of is the 'invisible' kingdom of heaven. When he died we forever received the Comforter. Jesus' eternal spirit alive on earth!
Love
TFJ