Philippians 3:21

“who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself”

“Fashion anew”: To transform. “Change the form of” (Jackson p. 73). See 1 Corinthians 15:35.

“The body of our humiliation”: “The body connected with our present moral existence...subjected to infirmities and suffering and decay. The change which the body will undergo will not only be an external one, but will affect the whole form and mode of existence” (Muller p. 134). The KJV rendering "vile body" gives the wrong impression. The body is not something "vile", for everything that God created was good (Genesis 1:31), and Christians are told to glorify God in their body (1 Corinthians 6:19). “By many Greek pagans the body was viewed as. prison from which at death the soul will be delivered” (Hendriksen p. 184). At this point Christians must realize that here is one more area in which Christianity inherently finds itself at odds with Eastern religions. The whole aim and goal of most Eastern religions is to be liberated from the body, that the body is either an illusion or. "negative" thing. Christianity teaches that in heaven the Christian will have their body,. resurrected spiritual body.

“That it may be conformed to the body of His glory”: “And give it. form like that of His own resplendent body” (NEB). “And change them into glorious bodies like His own” (Tay). “The bodies that the people of Christ will wear in the age to come will belong to the same heavenly order as His own resurrected (glorified) body” (Bruce p. 134). Compare with 1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:50; 1 John 3:2. “According to the working whereby is He able even to subject all things unto Himself”: “The exercise of the power which He possesses...This is. reference to Christ's ultimate victory over all things. By the same power that He subjects all things (1 Corinthians 15:58), He will also change us” (Jackson p. 74). “If anyone doubts the power of Christ to do this transformation, Paul replies that He has power ‘even to subject all things unto Himself'” (Robertson p. 457). “Such glorious promises should make us less intent upon ‘earthly things', and more eager to set our affections on things above” (Erdman p. 130). The same power that will resurrect all the bodies that have ever walked this earth (John 5:28) will be simply one demonstration of the power of Jesus Christ. Included among all the things which will happen at the end of time, are the complete removal of the entire physical universe (2 Peter 3:10), the consigning of every unsaved person to hell, the complete vanquishing of all evil powers, the resurrection is simply one example of the power of Christ

(1 Corinthians 15:25; Psalms 8:6; Psalms 110:1).