Randy Alcorn joins us one last time for Heaven Week, filling in for John Piper.

Randy, I have one last question for you.

For now at least, we know that the human body changes radically from conception to age

90.

So at what stage in bodily progression will our resurrected bodies appear?

We are told that there will be children in heaven.

Will there be elderly folks in heaven?

Will there be a range of appearances in heaven?

Or will we appear the age in which we died, like Jesus, apparently, or will be younger

or older or will everyone appear to be 25 years old in the prime of their life?

Help us sort this out, Randy.

This is another one of those areas where we have to speculate, we don't have the direct

biblical teaching on this, but we do have the direct biblical teaching of having the real

actual human bodies as created by God, not subject to sin and death and suffering.

We have the continuity of the appearance that we would assume that as Jesus looked like

the Jesus that He was, we will look like the people that we were.

We will look like Tony, I will look like Randy.

We will be able to recognize each other all of that.

I think in terms of the challenge of when an elderly person dies, will that person look

elderly?

We would assume not because there is a peak of physical vitality in this life and whatever

that age is, I know I passed it, but maybe it was the 20s, I don't know.

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