The Rapture
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The resurrection of the saints was not at the cross, but this gets tricky...
1 Thess 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
The old saints and those that died prior to his coming as Paul said are sleeping:
1 Thess 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
So wherever you place this coming is where the resurrection is, it wasn't the cross.
Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Thessalonians and Hebrews are speaking of the same event.
I don't understand why you and PW can't accept this as the firstruits of the 1st resurrection.
Apollyon is Vespasian’s son Titus, the commander of the Legio XV Apollinaris (Fifteenth Apollonian Legion). Initially the commander of the Fifteenth Legion, Titus then went on to succeed his father as general over all the Roman legions during the Jewish War after his father had become Caesar, a title also bestowed on Titus at his father’s coronation. As Caesar, Titus was entitled to worship as a god in the imperial cult, and like Apollo, the son of Zeus, could also be labeled the Son of God–a perfect title for the beast.
At the start of the Jewish War, Titus was the general of the Fifteenth Legion. With Apollo as its patron, the Fifteenth Legion was suitably nicknamed Apollinaris, a name meaning “devoted to Apollo.” The Fifteenth Legion would always carry an emblem of Apollo or one of his holy animals wherever it went. Not surprisingly, the locust was one of Apollo’s holy animals. Now it is easy to see why John chose locusts to symbolize the soldiers of the Roman army. So “devoted to Titus” was his army that at the taking of the Jewish temple, they unanimously declared him emperor of Rome in fulfillment of v. 11 in which Apollyon is said to have been “king over them.”
At the start of the Jewish War, Titus was the general of the Fifteenth Legion. With Apollo as its patron, the Fifteenth Legion was suitably nicknamed Apollinaris, a name meaning “devoted to Apollo.” The Fifteenth Legion would always carry an emblem of Apollo or one of his holy animals wherever it went. Not surprisingly, the locust was one of Apollo’s holy animals. Now it is easy to see why John chose locusts to symbolize the soldiers of the Roman army. So “devoted to Titus” was his army that at the taking of the Jewish temple, they unanimously declared him emperor of Rome in fulfillment of v. 11 in which Apollyon is said to have been “king over them.”
The resurrection of the saints was not at the cross, but this gets tricky...
1 Thess 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
The old saints and those that died prior to his coming as Paul said are sleeping:
1 Thess 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
So wherever you place this coming is where the resurrection is, it wasn't the cross.
Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Thessalonians and Hebrews are speaking of the same event.
The cross was a part of the restoration, if we really to want find when the restoration started we need to go back to John The Elijahist:
Matt 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Matt 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, .....
And we need to take into consideration what Peter said:
Acts 3:19 (NASB) whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.
The restoration was completed in his coming in vengeance in the 1st century.
Matt 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Matt 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, .....
And we need to take into consideration what Peter said:
Acts 3:19 (NASB) whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.
The restoration was completed in his coming in vengeance in the 1st century.
To answer that, what was lost at the Garden? Separation from God was restored. No more going to Hades when you die and waiting for the second coming. Yes, Christ's blood redeemed the world but as of Rev 1 He still had not unlocked Death and Hades. If He had, why mention the keys? It took the passing of the Law and the Mosaic Age to complete our ability to go straight to heaven upon death.
Spiritual Death = Separation from God
This was restored, not lions playing with lambs and removal of thorny bushes, etc.