“Will we have physical bodies in Heaven?”……Although the Bible tells us little about what it will be like in heaven, it seems that we will most likely have a physical body, although not in the same sense of "physical" that we have now.

1Corinthians 15:52says that “It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed..”

Jesus Christ is “the first fruits” of those who have died

1 Corinthians 15:20, 23. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died. ……But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.

This means that He set the example and leads the way.

1 Corinthians 15:42It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.

our “body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.”

In a precursor to the believers' resurrection, some were raised at the time of Christ’s resurrection in Matthew 27:52where it says that their “and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead..”

Thomas, in John 20:27 physically touched the body of Christ following His resurrection, Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don't be faithless any longer. Believe!"so He obviously had a body that was solid.……We can expect that all believers' resurrection will be like that of Christ’s. What a wonderful truth! The Bible is not specific, but it seems that we will be able to eat.

John, inRevelation 22:2, writes of his vision of the eternal state where he saw that “It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations. ”

This seems to be a reversal of the Genesis 3 punishment where Adam and Eve, and hence all of mankind, were banned from eating from this tree. As for hunger, it appears that there won’t be any.

Isaiah 49:10 says that there will be no hunger or thirst in the millennial kingdom. They will neither hunger nor thirst.The searing sun will not reach them anymore.…For the Lord in his mercy will lead them; he will lead them beside cool waters.

This is speaking of mortal men during that period, not of translated saints, but by extension it can be said that if mortals on earth during Christ’s Kingdom do not hunger, then surely there will be no hunger in heaven

Revelation 7:14-16. And I said to him, "Sir, you are the one who knows."Then he said to me, "These are the ones who died in the great tribulation. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white."That is why they stand in front of God's throne and serve him day and night in his Temple. And he who sits on the throne will give them shelter. They will never again be hungry or thirsty; they will never be scorched by the heat of the sun.

Finally, Job wrote that he knew for sure that even after he dies and his skin is long gone, that Job 19:25-26" I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! “

So that means our bodies will consist of some kind of glorified flesh. Whatever form we have, we know that it will be perfect, sinless and flawless.

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