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A glorified body is the body that believers in Jesus Christ will receive at the resurrection, the Rapture, or at the end of the Millennial Kingdom. It is similar to Jesus' body upon His resurrection in that it cannot die or age, nor is it subject to any of the limitations and temptations of a natural human body. (Paul the apostle made mention of this as the "corruptible putting on incorruption" in 1st Corinthians 15:51-57.) Those who were taken in the Rapture as children will receive adult glorified bodies while those that were elderly will receive glorified bodies that will restore them to the prime of their adult life, somewhere in their early thirties. Those living in the Millennial Kingdom with glorified bodies were called "glorifieds", while those who were living in natural bodies were called "naturals".

Unlike the "naturals", the "glorifieds" did not want to have sex with anyone, nor could they sire or bear children, as Jesus said in Scripture that those who are worthy of the resurrection would not marry nor be given in marriage but would be like the angels in Heaven. In addition, they would have glorified minds that would be solely focused on pleasing the Lord instead of pleasing their own desires, as experienced with Cameron Williams' relationship with his wife Chloe being solely platonic after the resurrection.

Approximately 90 to 95 years into the Millennial Kingdom, a member of The Other Light tried to sexually assault a woman with a glorified body in the hopes of siring a child that would be able to live past 100 years of age without having to become a believer, only to die in her arms and then be incinerated by God.

In his speech to the Children Of The Tribulation, Noah said that he was given a glorified body, which set him back midlife to when he was 500 years old. He said he was spry and had three sons at that time. Thus, having a glorified body is like being approximately 500 years in old in the body of natural in the Millennial Kingdom or about 500 years old during the time of the patriarchs when (according to the account of Noah in Kingdom Come: The Final Victory) there was a vapor canopy overhead before the flood of Noah that blocked the harmful effects of the sun that causes senescence.

Since Jesus died, it is unlikely that his pre-resurrection body is glorified, but nevertheless Christian orthodoxy pronounces Jesus as being entirely divine and human. In Kingdom Come, Bahira Ababneh wonders why The Other Light do not believe in an immanent "God who has again limited Himself to human form and lives and reigns among us". (This may be a reference to kenosis, emptying, of Jesus mentioned in Philippians 2:6-8.) This would imply that Jesus who has a glorified body while ruling in Jerusalem is still "limited". A fortiori, the bodies of other glorifieds would also be limited since they are not divine (or have the same divine substance as the Father) as Jesus is.

In The Rapture, Irene Steele who is in heaven notes that they have been given glorified bodies and minds but retains her memories. She wonders whether in a million years she would be "completely free of our humanness". Her son Raymie laughed, saying "we already are".

It is unknown whether a Glorified individual could have children via artificial means. It is unknown if the person attempting to rape glorified woman would expect to generate Nephilim-like creature as mentioned in Genesis 6. The Nephilim were the offspring of the "sons of God" and the daughters of humans.

By the end of the Millennium, all naturals who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior were given glorified bodies and were allowed to enter into the "new heavens and new earth" that emerged after the Great White Throne judgment and the dissolution of the old earth.