Les Feldick Bible Study

Why was Jesus' blood shed and absent from His resurrected body?

Jesus' blood was shed and absent from His resurrected body because flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God or enter eternity. Even the Lord Himself could not go into eternity with blood. His resurrected body is therefore flesh and bone, devoid of blood, prepared for the eternal state.

Les explains that in His resurrection appearance Jesus invited His disciples to handle Him and see that He was physically present in flesh and bone, but He left out the blood. This connects to I Corinthians 15:50, where flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Because flesh and blood as we now are cannot go into eternity, even the Lord Himself could not go into eternity with blood. So His blood was shed, and His resurrected body is devoid of blood—it is flesh and bone. Les also points out that Philippians says when we are brought into the eternal state, we will have a body fashioned after His glorious body: flesh and bone, not flesh and blood. He further raises the question that if Genesis tells us life is in the blood, what will be the source of life in that eternal resurrected body, then points to I Corinthians 15:45 about the first man Adam being made a living soul.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.