Unlike the world whose beloved is the person who has earned the applause, divine belovedness is unconditional; it is the ground beneath the behavior, the identity that survives the failure.
When the great, final trumpet sounds, the bodies that were placed in the earth in weakness will be raised in unimaginable power. To be raised imperishable means to be given a resurrected body that is completely free from decay, immune to sickness, and utterly untouched by the gripping hands of death and sin.
