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He has so deeply identified with us that when he ascended to heaven, he didn’t leave his body behind. He took his body. He’ll always have a body. He is now one of us, while remaining divine. (Luke 24.39) Dane Ortlund 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” (Luke 24:39)

This overlap of the two ages also means there is still time, still a chance, for any who recognizes he has been born into the old, hellish age to lay down his arms and be swept up into the dawning sunrise of the new age. (John 1.12) Dane Ortlund 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, (John 1:12)

When he walked out of the grave, Eden 2.0 dawned. Against OT expectation, the old age continued steamrolling right alongside the dawning new age. This is why this world can feel like heaven one day and hell the next. But our basic citizenship is now in that new Eden that has begun. (Rev. 22.1-5) Dane Ortlund Then the angel[a] showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God