9. _Our transformed bodies will be luminous, shining, dazzling, bright like the sun._ This is seen in many passages. For example, Matt. 13:43, +"Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father."+ This is to be taken literally for it is in the _interpretation_ of the parable and not in the parable. This suggests what we have already seen about the transfigured body of Jesus in Matt. 17:2, where we are told that +"His face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light."+ We have the same thought also in the Old Testament in Dan. 12:3, where we are told, +"And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."+ They shall shine literally as well as figuratively. Some suggestion of what the luminous glory of our faces and forms in our resurrection bodies will be is seen in the light that Paul tells us that he saw beaming from the person of Jesus when the glorified Jesus met him on the Damascus road. In Paul's description of what he saw on that occasion, as given in Acts 26:12, 13, we read, +"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining around about me and them that journeyed with me."+ The light that Saul saw, as is evident from the whole account, was the light that shone from the person of our glorified Lord, and in our resurrection bodies we shall be like Him.
10. _Three interesting facts regarding our resurrection bodies_ are stated in Matt. 22:30 and Luke 20:35, 36. In Matt. 22:30 we read: +"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven."+ In Luke 20:35, 36 we read: +"But they that are counted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection."+ Taking these two passages together, we learn that our resurrection bodies are like the angels, that we do not marry in our resurrection bodies and that these bodies cannot die any more.
11. _Though all these resurrection bodies are glorious, they differ from one another, each one having its own peculiar glory._ This appears from 1 Cor. 15:41, 42: +"There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection from the dead."+ Glorious as all our bodies shall be, there will be no tiresome uniformity even of glory in the world of resurrection bodies. Each body will have its own peculiar glory.
12. Let us say finally in regard to the character of our resurrection body, that _the resurrection of our body will be the consummation of our adoption_, i.e., of our placing as sons, our manifestations as sons of God. In Rom. 8:23 we read: +"We, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption+ (i.e., our placing as sons), +to wit, the redemption of our body."+ The resurrection body will be the consummation of our placing as sons, i.e., in the resurrection body it will be outwardly manifested that we are sons of God. Before His incarnation Christ was "_in the form_ of God." (Phil. 2:6), i.e., in the visible appearance of God. So shall we also be in the resurrection, for our bodies shall be like His. This throws light upon what Paul meant when he said in Col. 3:4: +"When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall we also with him be manifested in glory."+ And also it throws light on what John meant when he says in I John 3:2, R. V.: +"Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."+