Heaven is a real place

[Doug Brents]

I said it is a reference to the Resurrection of the dead from the grave.

Forgive me, I was remembering another event, and I did not read the passage you referenced again before I said they had died again. My mistake.

Yes, Ezekiel's prophecy is a reference to the resurrection of the dead, but it, like Revelation, is a figurative account of the resurrection in terms that man can understand. You think it implies that man will have flesh and bones and tendons etc. But again, we do not know what we will be like at the resurrection. I can't, and won't, tell you what I think we will be like, because I have no idea, but I do know that we will be changed from what we are now.

That is a interpretation. I don't teach the "rapture". There is much debate over this. I'm looking for evidence. That is what you demand from me...... right?

And Scripture's accounts are not evidence for you? I don't teach the rapture either. We are in the Tribulation now (Rev 1:9), and have been since before the end of the first century.
All we can know for sure is what the Word tells us. And it tells us that all life will end suddenly when Jesus returns, the living in Christ will meet Him in the air after the dead in Christ are raised to meet Him, and then the evil dead will be raised to Judgement after the wedding celebration of Jesus to the Church is held in Heaven (Rev 19-20, Rev 1:7, 2 Pet 3:10-12, 1 Thes 4:6).

So your life now is just going to be forgotten? You have a history.... right?

Forget about "physical". I prefer the context of "tangible". Often times they are equal. In some circles they're not. I don't want to "talk past" one another when we are saying the same things.

"face to face" is rather unique phrase. I recommend you study the use of the "phrase" throughout the Scriptures. Paul is appealing to Jacob "wrestling with God" in Genesis 32.

We are all the sum of our experiences. You can't leave our bodies out of this. I know you want to do this because of many troubling things we experience in our lives but you're looking at this the wrong way.

"Forgetting the anguish" is part of this brother.

We will indeed forget all the troublesome parts of this life (Isa 65:17, Rev 21:4). I believe that we will remember the good times, and relationships, and things like that, as there is evidence in Scripture of people remembering other people. But not all of our history will be remembered, and maybe not any of it; it will be overshadowed by the glory we find in God's presence.

Even the spiritual is "tangible" to other spirits, so yes, things will be tangible on the other side of the resurrection. But you can indeed leave our bodies out of this. This body is nothing more than a seed of what we will become.