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God the Father made the plan of salvation to be through Jesus' body, and he made that plan before the creation of anything:
1 Peter 1:20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
2 Timothy 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
Ephesians 1:4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
God made Himself a body, the body of the risen Lord, the First and the Last, and then He made the whole creation though that body:
Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
John 1:3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
So then, the world was made through the body of Christ, the body of God, but after Adam and Eve sinned, they were put out of the body, but could remain NEAR God by obedience.
Abel stayed near God by faith and obedience, Cain was kept further away from God.
In the times of Noah, Noah was kept near to God and the rest besides his family were kept further away.
In the time of Abraham, Abraham was near God, the body, because of his faith and obedience, and then a promise came to Abraham that all will be brought not only near God, but back in God, by the body of God, the body of Christ come in the flesh.
When Jesus came to earth he took on the appearance of man.
Philippians 2:7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
Through Jesus' body, we are brought back, reconciled to God, as we were before Adam and Eve sinned.
When the New Earth is here, the New Jerusalem, we will be in the body of Christ forever.
Revelation 3:12
The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
Revelation 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
