Secrets from Beyond The Grave

saw Christ, he thought He was a mere spirit being. Jesus said, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing" (John 20:27). Thomas saw and felt the prints and the slit in Christ's side where the Roman lance had sliced open His side at the crucifixion (John 19:34). Christ presently has the same body but in a resurrected form. There is a reason that Christ must always bear the scars of His suffering. When Christ returns to rule on Earth, the scars will be evidence of the fact He is the promised Messiah of prophecy: And one will say to him, "What are these wounds between your arms?" Then he will answer, "Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends." --Zechariah 13:6 I would also go as far as to say that the adversary is always attempting to discredit the Word of God. In time to come, the righteous will one day judge the angels, and this will include Satan (1 Cor. 6:3). At the judgment of Satan, this lying adversary would love to say that redemption never really happened! For example, there is a major world religion today, Islam, with approximately 1.5 billion followers, that denies that Jesus is the Son of God and teaches that He was never really crucified. However, Christ's scars on His hands, feet, and side are visible indicators of the fact of redemption! Satan will never say, "The crucifixion was a hoax," as Christ will have the evidence on His own body of His redemptive covenant with mankind! Christ doesn't have a normal body, however, since His resurrection. A normal body cannot appear and disappear, walk through closed doors, and travel at the speed of thought--all of which Christ could do following His resurrection. Therefore, the flesh-and-blood body we now have cannot inherit the kingdom in its present form. A spiritual body will not need blood, as the "life of the flesh is in the blood" (Lev. 17:11). A body with normal human blood would be unable, in the natural, to travel at high speeds, such as the speed of light (although with God all things are possible; remember Elijah in his chariot ride in 2 Kings 2). Traveling in a flesh-and-blood body at high speeds would melt the flesh and boil the blood until there would be nothing remaining! DNA and the Resurrection An amazing discovery was made in 1953. Researchers studying human cells discovered a nucleus within the nucleus, a tiny dark spot in the middle of the human cell. After detailed study, this spot was identified as deoxyribonucleic acid, or abbreviated as DNA. This DNA was a complex molecule containing life's instructions and has been determined to be the most important part of our human makeup. DNA looks like a twisted ladder called a double helix. It is the biochemical recipe in the body for creating proteins--thus cells, tissues, and organs.2 For many years medical and genetic researchers identified up to 90 percent or more of our DNA as junk DNA. The term junk DNA was originally coined to refer to a region of DNA that contained no genetic information. Scientists are beginning to find, however, that much of this so-called junk plays important roles in the regulation of gene activity. No one yet knows how extensive that role may be.3 In his book In the Beginning , Walt Brown, PhD, gives the most amazing details about DNA. There are about one hundred trillion cells in your body. Most of your cells have forty-six segments of DNA, twenty-three from the mother and twenty-three from the father, which all