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Marlene:
Hello Joe, I already told them all I love them, and that I have a tendency to get very serious.

Yes, your scriptures help alot. I to believe that the Kingdom Comes when he takes us with him. I struggle every day with that beast. I want to be with him and I run the race. I believe it is ran till either he comes or after I die and we are raised from the dead.

I believe that we can't even imagine what all he has in store with us. I dont see why eating food would be wrong, done in fellowship with him.

Thanks so much for your kindness.

In His Love,
Marlene

Ninny:
Thank you Joe for your post. I'm glad you were able to share your thoughts on the matter. I hope Marlene will feel better. I know she was just trying to get more information about something she wasn't sure of. There are so many conflicting things out there and a lot of it is pure speculation because some things are not clearly revealed to us.

I also wanted to remind Marlene that her question wasn't dumb at all! We are free to ask anything we want to know more about, we will either get a real clear answer or we will be given more "food for thought" ;) that's the way we learn, isn't it ???
I know I'm still learning ;D
Kathy :)

Dave in Tenn:
Hi Marlene.  I guess I'm in a league with your husband.  At least in terms of weight-gain, I've always been able to eat whatever I wanted.  THe only time I 'plumped up', all I had to do to drop it was stop my nightly snack of a pint of Hagen Daz sprinkled with M&M's.  All genes and metabolism.

My thinking is very much in line with Joe's.  For poor people the world over, food is a quest--often met with disappointment and frustration.  For the affluent (and I consider everybody with a computer and an internet connection 'affluent' by comparison) food is often a source of evil in disease and temptations to gluttony.  Though I don't really worry too much about what is to come--especially considering "...it doth not yet appear what we shall be...", I can't help but believe that whatever nourishes us is surely superior to food.  We will neither have too little and be frustrated and disapoointed, or be hurt by our enjoyment.

Still, it's a beautiful picture Joe points to, and it does no harm, I think, to imagine the as yet unimaginable with good food on the table.  I do my best these days to not take the spiritual promises and spiritual wealth of meaning in scripture and turn it into a fleshly commandment.  For me at least, I don't feel compelled to think 'thou shalt not eat in the Kingdom'.  Whatever we have, it will be gooder than KFC.   :D

Marlene:
Dave, That is such a good thought. I know it is genes. My Mother who has so many Godly traits battled with her weight. She was always on the go. She worked hard barely sat down. She was not a big eater, but she still battled it. Diabetes ran on her side and also my fathers. My father and Mother never had it as bad as me. My sister has it and also my Brother. The medications can make cravings worse , especially insluin. Also, they give me medications for fibromalgia and it makes you crave food or sweets. So, it is a battle for sure. Its funny, but my husband has never told me I am fat. He sees my battle and he loves me. He use to say You ain't fat your fluffy. I had a neice that says I like to hug you cause you are a pillow. I have lost quite a bit of weight over the years, but still need to loose more. I have done this with Gods help, but it is a constant battle.

Something else I would like to share with you all. Right after my Father passed away in 1993 I grieved terribly for him. I mean to the point I was having severe pain and sleepless nights. I was really ran down.  He died in Dec and the following May I had a dream of him. My Fathers Lungs were bad and it affected his heart. I watched him suffer for many years with breathing problems because of the work he did most of his life. But, I can remember it was on Memorial Day morning I had a dream about him. Now, I am sure God gave it to me in the way I would understand. But, it was a place that has beauty of flowers and grass and all kinds of beauty. There was a table dressed in white. It had no begining and no end. Well, My Father looked like he did when I was little. His jet black hair and his hansome face. He was runing all over the place. The table had all kinds of fruits and beautiful foods like a banquet was going on. My Father was dressed in a Red -Tshirt and work pants. But, he was runing with me. I woke up in tears of joy. I was saying out loud when I woke catch me Dad catch me. What really got to me is how wonderful he would look. I thought, how wonderful to see that he will not suffer anymore. I never did believe they go straight to heaven. But, I can tell you I never grieved any more.

Dave you are so right it is beyond our imagination. But, I am looking forward to that day when we are all united. But, I want to see the one who saved us.

In His Love,
Marlene

Kat:

Hi Marlene,

What a very nice dream the Lord gave you to take away your grief for your Dad.

As has been discussed before, the world will be raised to physical life in the resurrection of the dead.  So they will still need physical subsistence for their physical body.

But the Elect will be raised in glory and power, in spiritual bodies (1 Cor 15:43), with no need for anything physical to sustain them.  As I consider those occasions when Christ did literally eat physical food after He was resurrected, it was in fellowship with the disciples.  So it is not too much of a stretch to think that the Elect would find occasions also to eat physical foods when ruling with Christ over the world.  But of course it would not be for sustenance or I don't believe even as any kind of joy in the consumption, as that seems actually be a kind of fleshly lust.  I believe the raised Elect will be beyond that, but I do think they would partake of food in fellowship, as Jesus did.  I hope this does not confuse the issue.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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