Sure...
Isaiah 26:19,
Job 14:10-15 for starters... Got my favorite calico cat wallowing all over my keyboard doing head butts, so I'm a bit distracted, sorry.
Job
14 1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Isaiah 26:19. In antithesis to
Isa 26:14, "They (Israel's foes) shall not live"; "Thy (Jehovah's) dead men (the Jews) shall live," that is, primarily, be restored, spiritually (
Isa 54:1-3), civilly and nationally (
Isa 26:15); whereas Thy foes shall not; ultimately, and in the fullest scope of the prophecy, restored to life literally (
Eze 37:1-14;
Da 12:2).
together with my dead body—rather, "my dead body," or "bodies" (the Jewish nation personified, which had been spiritually and civilly dead; or the nation, as a parent, speaking of the bodies of her children individually, see on [736]
Isa 26:9, "I," "My"): Jehovah's "dead" and "my dead" are one and the same [Horsley]. However, as Jesus is the antitype to Israel (
Mt 2:15), English Version gives a true sense, and one ultimately contemplated in the prophecy: Christ's dead body being raised again is the source of Jehovah's people (all, and especially believers, the spiritual Israelites) also being raised (
1Co 15:20-22).
The common denominator in all of this is whatever "IT" is. The very same "IT" goes from being in one condition into another condition with each transition listed in this text, resulting in "IT" becoming what Paul called a "spiritual body".
From scripture tell us what that seed is. You say "it" is the body. So then He gives the body a body? Or is the "it" the seed that He gives a body?
37And what you sow is
not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and
to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
Yet what is unseen is not necessarily something non-physical; it just needs to have the option of invisibility to qualify as eternal. For Christ's flesh-and-bones resurrected body was able to switch back and forth from visible to invisible at will. If you yourself are not really gung-ho about receiving a physical body in the final resurrection, I guess you would have the option of remaining invisible for all eternity if you wished.
Then explain this, because these crystal clear verses just don't sound like flesh and bone(having shed His blood) For some reason people seem to think that Christ would remain forever in a body of flesh.
1Timothy 1:
15The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
16But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
17To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:
14to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
16who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
You might disagree with this point, but I assure you, it is certainly not an "unheard of" idea. Many before me have recognized the first resurrection-day ascension in
John 20:17 that Jesus said he was going to do while Mary went and told the disciples the message He gave her to pass on to them. Christ also referred to His resurrection-day ascension in
John 16:16-22 and
John 16:28.
This is in the same context: “And behold, I am
sending [present tense] the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high” (
Luke 24:49).
No, Christ was not alone as the "First-fruits". The example back in the OT was of a sheaf handful of first-fruits barley grain offered
along with a single he-lamb without blemish (
Leviticus 23:10-12). There were 144,000 "First-fruits" raised from the dead that same day Christ arose. However, Christ was unique among all those 144,000 First-fruits in being called the "First-born" and the "First-begotten", because He was absolutely the first bodily-resurrected human to appear in heaven and stand before the Ancient of Days in that resurrected human form. This fulfilled the
Psalms 2:7 prophecy when God would say
"This day have I begotten thee." And Paul interpreted that text as being fulfilled in Christ's resurrection-day ascension in
Acts 13:33-34. The rest of the "First-fruits" remained on earth for a time and did not ascend with Christ.
You may
think we do not have any information on what happened to them (which would be incorrect), but at least we
do know what
DIDN'T happen to them. They never died again. That's not possible for a resurrected saint, because it is appointed unto men ONCE to die - not twice (
Hebrews 9:27-28).
"fulfilled in Christ's resurrection-day ascension". It doesn't say or mean that. Mark 14: 28
But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”
Leviticus 23:
16You shall count
fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD.
17You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as
firstfruits to the LORD.
Romans 8:23 And not only
that, but also
we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for
our adoption as sons
and daughters, the redemption of our body.
James 1:18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
The 144,000 are virgins.
2 Corinthians 11:2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to
present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
This all happened at the same time:
Matthew 27:
50And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and gave up His spirit.
51And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.
52Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
Then
53and coming out of the tombs
after His resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
Christ is the first to be raised from the dead.