Paul likened the human body to living in a tent. He never suggested that we would leave it, never to have another body, thus being naked or unclothed. He called the resurrected body “an eternal house” and “our heavenly dwelling.” This clothing metaphor reaches to that grand day of resurrection when the mortal body will be swallowed up by life, a new body for a new creation, a heavenly body for earth, when heaven and earth are made one. This amazing future world will be inhabited with amazing new bodies, just like Jesus’ resurrected body. Stay ready.
“Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.” 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 (NIV)
