Man is a triune being

The makeup of a human being consists of three parts. The outermost part is the flesh body, then there is the spirit that gives life to the body, and on the inside of the spirit is the soul. An animal has a body and a spirit, but it does not have a soul. It is the soul that separates a human from an animal. Another very important distinction to make between an animal and a human is this; that an animal is firstly a body that is given the spirit of life in order to live, whereas a human is firstly a spirit that lives in a body. The difference is quite pronounced indeed, for when an animal dies, its spirit breaks up and its body returns to the dust, thus it has no more existence. But when a human dies, the body returns to the dust, but the soul lives on in another world. This is clearly explained in Ecclesiastes 3:21: Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

The soul living inside the spirit is made plain by looking at the scriptures. 1 Samuel 25:29: Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. Here we can see that the soul lives inside the spirit of life, because when the spirit of life leaves a body, then the body dies. A body can live without a soul (like it does for an animal), but a body cannot live without the spirit of life. Again, in Psalm 66:9 we read: Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. The psalmist also establishes this fact that the soul is placed inside the spirit of life. The spirit of life that animates the flesh body is contained within the bloodstream according to Leviticus 17:11: For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

The prophet of God told us that the theophanies of the saints beyond the Curtain of Time do not have any blood coursing through them, because their bodies are animated by the Holy Ghost. When the theophany comes back to the earth to unite with the flesh body and make it glorified, we will still be a triune being. To grasp this concept, we will turn our minds back to the makeup of a natural man, that he has a body, a spirit, and a soul. But the makeup of a glorified man is slightly different. The glorified man has a body, but instead of the bloodstream which carries the spirit of life, the glorified man will have a theophany that is pulsated by the Holy Ghost. Then inside the theophany will reside the soul.