Paul's celestial vision of Cosmic reversal over the Powers

                                

Superb scholarship paper by David Burnett on Paul's celestial vision, I've removed the biblical references and Greek to improve readability, read the entire thing HERE :

“For Paul, these dispossessed “sons of Adam” were enslaved to both the celestial gods/angels and to death being destined to perish.

Both these enemies are in need of defeat to secure the redemption of the “sons of Adam.” 

In the apocalyptic event of “the resurrection” a great cosmic eschatological reversal is to take place: the holy ones will no longer be enslaved to the celestial “rulers” and “principalities,” for they will have been destroyed by the Messiah. ..

The once imperishable celestial bodies “will die like human beings”

Then the human beings in Christ will receive from God “pneumatic” bodies, which are “celestial” constituted of “glory” , becoming as the stars , imperishable, never again subject to death , no longer “fleshly” like “mere human beings,” for “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” .

The last enemy to be defeated is death, when the Corinthians will be given heavenly bodies, raised in celestial glory and bearing the “image” of the “one from heaven,” fit to judge and rule where flesh and blood cannot dwell .

For Paul, his holy ones will be made like the celestial bodies, having bodies like them, fit to inherit their habitat, and to take their rightful place as true heirs with Christ, usurping the old powers and being raised in celestial power and glory as heirs of the cosmos.”