Understanding our home from heaven

Chuck Smith goes well beyond what is expressed in 2 Cor 5:2 when it speaks of the death of the believer. The text says:

2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

Does this mean, as Chuck Smith asserts, that our resurrection body is in Heaven now awaiting us and that on our death we receive that resurrection body? If so then the current body has no connection to that kind of resurrection body. Worse yet, there is no resurrection since the dead are not raised but their bodies are replaced.

What is the context of this passage? Is 2 Cor 5:2 actually talking about our resurrection bodies at all or is it talking about something else. The passage is clearly talking about our deaths and dealing with the issue of what happens to us at death. The "earthly house of our tabernacle" describes our bodies which we currently inhabit. But is the building of God a resurrection body for us as Smith suggests or is it Heaven itself? After death, the believer goes into the presence of the Lord:

2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

The whole passage speaks of what happens when we die. The resurrection happens at the end of time but raised the question of what happens between our deaths and the last day. Smith solves the puzzle by asserting time in Heaven is different so the day we die is the last day. On the other hand, the Apostle Paul solves the issue here by saying that we go to be with the Lord until the judgment day. While we are in the presence of the Lord we are not unclothed, but clothed with the glory of God.

Being clothed with Heaven, as Robinson write is "a mixed metaphor (putting on as garment the dwelling-place)." It is now that we are naked being children of the fall by nature, but the spirit of God covers us with Heaven. That won't change just because we are away from our bodies for a time. We will still be clothed with Heaven then. Not made from heavenly material, as Smith carnally describes.

The context of this passage is the time between our death and the Second Coming of Christ, which is describe in the 10th verse:

2Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

The passage is not about what we are clothed with at all but whom. We go to God's place, Heaven, and we are in His presence. We are not left dead or alone at death. We are reunited with our bodies on the last day of human history but in the meanwhile we are with God in Heaven.