Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: This statement shows the lack of understanding of the heavenly situation on the part of even an apostle of the Lord. Vincent says, "The force of the aorist tense is, was never manifested on any occasion" (344). John does not know, and nobody on earth knows, what we are going to be like at the resurrection when Jesus comes again. This statement is the tenor of John’s words. Paul tells us that we will receive an immortal, incorruptible body (1 Corinthians 15:51-54); but he does not say what it will be like.