As Paul continues his explanation for what motivates him to not lose heart in his ministerial afflictions, sets forth his hope of a heavenly afterlife. Addressing what is called the "intermediate state," that period of time between the death of the body and the bodily return of Jesus Christ in power and glory at the end of the age, Paul explains that the believer's soul is clothed upon by a heavenly body. This body is not a different intermediate body or the resurrection body, it is rather, the soul being clothed with heaven's glory and swallowed up in life. The assurance of this hope is grounded in a divine work, as the Lord grants believers the Holy Spirit as a pledge of being taken upon into heavenly life and glory upon the death of the body.
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