What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. (1Corinthians 15: 50-53)

We will all be changed. We must each change.

The Greek is allasso: to be transformed, to become another.

The kingdom of God is at hand - close by - within our grasp.

But to fully experience the reign of God we must be transformed.

What is now perishable will become aphtharsia: pure, sincere, and creative