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Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Revelation 1;13 - and standing in the middle of the lampstands was the Son of Man. He was dressed in a robe extending down to His feet and He wore a wide golden belt around His chest. His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like flames of fire. His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters. He held seven stars in His right hand, and a sharp double edged sword extended out of His mouth. His face shone like the sun shining at full strength. When i saw Him I fell down at His feet as though I were dead, but He placed His right hand on me and said " Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last, and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive - forever and ever - "

1 John 3; 2 - Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be like has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure.

Philippians 3; 20 - But our citizenship is in heaven - and we also await a savior from there, The Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of His glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to Himself.

Romans 8; 18-24 - Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will give us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who His children really are. Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse. All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We to wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full right as His children, including the new bodies He has promised us. Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom.