Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(2Co 5:8) “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”   Notice the difference between this statement and Verse 1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”.  Today’s verse speaks of now, before the resurrection of our bodies (v.1), our verse of present day. To pass today is to leave this old house behind. Yet, we are not naked, but the spiritual body was made alive at the salvation experience. With it we immediately stand in the presence of God. At the Rapture we will receive a glorified, resurrected body.