Featured Sin Nature versus Law of Sin

Re- is proper as both the physical and spiritual are generative or life giving in nature. Hence, there are two life giving events. The re- or second life giving event is spiritual rather than physical but it is still a second life giving event in the life of a saved person.

 

Reconciliation is both horizontal (earth) and vertical (heaven) because sin has caused disfellowship between men and other men and between men and God.

 

It appears that the tabernacle/temple on earth was patterned after something in heaven.

 

The taberncale on earth is a type of something in heaven and so I am not saying there is a literal tabernacle in heaven but the antitype is in heaven


Heb. 9: 11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us

Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

The antitype in heaven seems to be pictured in Revelation 4-5

Sin occurred first in heaven by Lucifer before sin entered the world through Adam. It would seem therefore that sin defiled heaven as it did this world in some sense.

 

Glorification occurs in the resurrection or catching up of the body at the Second Advent. Hence, it is not regeneration that makes glorification, but a supernatural creative act by God at the Second Advent.

Your body is the house/temple/tabernacle of your spirit. Your spirit has been brought into union with the Spirit of God and thus the Spirit in union with your spirit indwells your body. Regeneration demonstrates God redeemed you but God did not regenerate your soul and body, but regeneration of your spirit is like the down payment and God will eventually redeem your body from the power of sin in the resurrection.

In the meantime between regeneration of your spirit and resurrection of your body, your body is still under the power of the law of sin (Rom. 7:14). This principle of corruption will not be removed from your body until the resurrection (1 Cor. 15:53-54).

Moreover, between regeneration of your spirit and the future glorification (removal of sin's power) from your body at the resurrection, you have power by the indwelling Spirit to overpower the law of sin in your body so that you can glorify God "in your body". However, that power is not found in YOU (regenerate spirit or will power - Rom. 7:18) but in submitting to the power of the indwelling Spirit of God (Rom. 8:9-27).

 

Those scripture in Hebrews demand that there is an antitype in heaven that needs to be cleansed. What do you do with those explicit statements?

 

That is precisely what I did say - please reread my post. Now look at these scriptures again and they explicitly say that the antitype in heaven needed to be cleanse:

Heb. 9: 11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us

Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

The antitype in heaven seems to be pictured in Revelation 4-5

Read the underlined portions carefully as they are saying there is something in heaven of which the earthly tabernacle was but a type as the earthly was patterned after the heavenly reality and that heavenly things themselves needed to be purified by better things than what purified the earthly type.