I believe 1 Cor 15:23 is true.
Then you must believe that 1 Cor 15:43 is also true?
Does that leave any other possibility as to WHAT BODY they were raised with being they were SAINTS?
I understand it is an inconvenient truth that a first in time resurrection took place, but it is what it is.
With bodies GLORIFIED OR NOT THERE WAS A RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS ON THE LAST DAY, SO THE ONE COMING ON THE LAST DAY OF THIS 'AGE', CAN NOT, IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF SAINTS.
THOUGH IT WILL BE THE ONLY TIME THE ALIVE AND REMAINING' ARE CHANGED/RESURRECTED, if that helps at all.
I personally DON'T CARE what PRE TRIBs BELIEVE OR DON'T BELIEVE. I CARE ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING TRUTH, WHO HAVE YET TO BE DECEIVED. THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN PRE TRIB are JUST HERE TO SET THE STAGE TO PUT FORTH THE GOOD WORDS OF GOD. But EVEN IF WHAT I BELIEVE is something THEY MAY FIND USEFUL, it can't change what I do BECAUSE THE WORDS OF TRUTH WILL ALWAYS WIN. WHAT IS WRITTEN WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL. THE LONGER IT GOES ON THE MORE the TRUTH IS EASILY SEEN, THE MORE CONFUSING THE OTHER SIDE IS SHOWN TO BE. THE MORE FRUITS WE all WITNESS.
HERE IS THE PROPHESY
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that heareth My word,
and believeth on Him that sent Me,
hath everlasting life,
and
shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The hour is coming, and now is, when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
WHO HEARS HIS VOICE?
John 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself;
27 And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
THAT WAS THEN, THAT RESURRECTION HAPPENED IN THE PAST, THE DAY CHRIST DIED FOR US.
THIS RESURRECTION WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FUTURE.
John 5:28
Marvel not at this:
for the hour is coming, in the which ALL that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY 'ETERNAL' LIFE. There is no immortality implied in this resurrection of life. I believe these are those of the nations that will rise for the Lords Day. THE GRAVES OF ALL WHO HAVE EVER DIED. THESE JUST PEOPLE ARE GOOD PEOPLE. RIGHT PEOPLE. CHARITABLE PEOPLE. HONEST PEOPLE. EVERYTHING GOD WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN HIS PEOPLE PEOPLE
BUT NONE OF THESE JUST AND RIGHT PEOPLE DIED KNOWING THE LORD AND HIS SAVIOR.
THEY ARE
NOT SAVED as THEY NEVER KNEW GOD. THEY NEVER HEARD HIS WORD. THEY DON'T KNOW TRUTH.
THEY ARE JUST AND RIGHT yet SPIRITUALLY DEAD. AND NOW THEY HAVE BEEN RESURRECTED TO 'LIFE' BUT THEY WILL REMAIN 'SPIRITUALLY DEAD' FOR THE NEXT 1000 YEARS, TILL SATAN RELEASED AND THEY TO ARE TESTED.
THESE ARE the possible SECOND RESURRECTION people. THEY WILL NOT RULE AND REIGN. THEY WILL BE RULED AND REIGNED OVER. THEY MAY FAIL AND END UP IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THEIR SECOND DEATH or receive their immortality.
AGAIN THESE ARE THE NATIONS THAT FOR THE LORDS DAY REMAIN 'SPIRITUALLY DEAD' YET were raised up IN INCORRUPTIBLE BUT MORTAL (SECOND DEATH) BODIES.
Then there are the UN JUST. What is the resurrection of damnation? I DON'T KNOW except for 2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth
how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
SO those who were raised and SEEN that 'last day' showed that JESUS had indeed TRIUMPHED over death. He had set US free of the bondage of death.
The 'GIFT OF SALVATION' was MORE THAN A PROMISE, it was real.
HE WAS/IS THE SON OF GOD.
Matthew 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies
of the saints which
slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
SLEPT
2837. koimaó from NG2749
Definition: sleep, fall asleep, die
Usage: I fall asleep, am asleep,
sometimes of the sleep of death.
AROSE
1453. egeiró
Strong's Concordance
egeiró: to waken,
to raise up
Definition: to waken, to raise up
Usage: (a) I wake, arouse, (b) I raise up.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
awake, lift up, raise up
Probably akin to the base of agora (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. Rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease,
from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence) -- awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-)rise (again, up), stand, take up.
THIS WAS THE 'LAST DAY' SPOKEN OF (IS THERE EVER a 'last day' spoken of again? OR do we hear the Lords Day)
THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD COVENANT.
THE LAST DAY OF THE FLESH LIFE OF JESUS.
THE LAST DAY OF BEING UNDER THE LAW.
THE LAST DAY OF ALL BLOOD SACRIFICES.
THE LAST DAY OF OT PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE MESSIAH
THE LAST DAY OF THIS AGE, IF HE HAD BEEN ACCEPTED AND NOT REJECTED.
THE LAST DAY THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BEING NEAR. (SET UP ON EARTH)
BUT IT WAS THE FIRST DAY OF UNDER GRACE,
UNDER FORGIVENESS FOR SINS.
THE FIRST DAY OF 'NEVER TASTING DEATH' FOR THE SAVED,
(tasting death NOW only for the UN SAVED).
THE FIRST DAY OF THE LATTER DAYS.
THE FIRST DAY OF NO BLOOD SACRIFICIES
NO TEMPLE RITUALS, NO CONFESSING TO PRIEST
TO BOLDING APPROACHING THE LORD THROUGH THE CLEANSING BLOOD OF CHRIST
This happened.
Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,
I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Hebrews 2:7 Thou madest Him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst Him with glory and honour, and didst set Him over the works of Thy hands
8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him
. But now we see not yet all things put under Him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour;
that
HE by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
14
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS THE DEVIL