Will There Be Obese People or Dwarfs in Heaven, Since God Made Man to Have Variety?
1) Direct Answer
No. In heaven there will be no obesity, no dwarfism, no deformity, and no effects of the fall. All the redeemed will be changed into a perfect, glorified body—balanced, whole, and in the prime of life—yet still themselves.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says our bodies will be changed to be like His: “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” (Philippians 3:21).
- The resurrection body is “raised in incorruption… raised in glory… raised in power… a spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:42–44, 49). Corruption and weakness are gone.
- “God shall wipe away all tears… there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain” (Revelation 21:4). Pain, disease, and defect do not enter there.
- The Kingdom promise is restoration: “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened… the lame man leap as an hart” (Isaiah 35:5–6). What was lacking is made whole.
- “We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). Like Christ—recognizable, real, but glorified (Luke 24:39).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Obesity, dwarfism, and every bodily defect are marks of the present fallen order. The resurrection removes the fall’s damage and restores God’s original intention.
- Variety is God’s delight in identity, tribes, tongues, gifts, and glory (Revelation 7:9; 1 Corinthians 15:38–41). But variety is not deformity. God’s diversity remains; the curse does not.
- We will still be ourselves and know one another, but without any excess, lack, sickness, or limitation.
Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, God doesn’t carry the scars of the fall into glory. He perfects His people. The body will be like Jesus’—whole, strong, and glorious. So, no obesity, no dwarfism—only the redeemed in perfect, restored bodies to the praise of His grace.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Mighty Conqueror
56-0401M §44
There was no beauty we should desire Him. He was marred above every man. He was probably a little skinny, spindly-looking fellow. Didn't look like a King. Many times that people judge people by the way they dress or by their stature. Man is not judged by how big he is and how strong is his muscles. Man's judged by character, and character alone. I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and didn't have an ounce of man about them. Man is judged by character: what he is in his heart. And Christ was not judged by...
Door to the heart
59-1128 §12
See, it's an appointment that God has made. When you get about that age, God said, "There it is. Now, come on, death. But you can't take them till I say so." Knowing this, that in the resurrection, there'll not be one old person in the resurrection. Hallelujah! There'll not be one cripple come forth in the resurrection. Them that was crippled will come forth. Them that was old will come forth. But they'll be young. They'll be at their best. Little babies that didn't get their life lived out will resurrect into a fu...
Adoption, part 2: Manifested sons of God
60-0518 §123
And may the God of all grace, the God of heaven---not sacrilegious, but in reverence, "Papa"---on that great day when we be presented back here and have our earthly bodies again, so we can drink, and eat the grapes and the fruit of the land... They'll build houses and another won't inhabit. They'll plant vineyards and another won't eat thereof, see. One man plants a vineyard, his son takes it, and then his son takes it, and his. But not in this case---he'll plant it and stay there. See, that's right. We'll be there...
Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us
53-0907A §33
Looking see how God patterns it all around. The whole... Over in India, and different things, they worship and say when we die, we become angels and fly away. God never did make me an angel, and I never will be an angel, and neither will you. He made me a man and I will always be a man. I will resurrect a man. Just exactly but we know that God works, and we can see the perfect pattern in the universe as He begins to raise things up like that. And Job looking at that and seen that those things raised again, but he s...
God keeps His Word
57-0407M §78
God won't have a freak body. He won't have six fingers on one hand. It'll just be five fingers on one hand; the body of Christ won't be freak. And when the last person has come into the body of Christ, then it's over. It's over. I don't know which one; this might've been the last one this morning. You might've been the last one. Maybe over in Africa today, the last one will be brought in. But when the last one's done, I mean the gos... You may go ahead preaching the Gospel, but there'll be no response, see. There's...