They AWAIT the 1,000 years for Judgement.
5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
“Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.”
Ezekiel 37:12 KJV
“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 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; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,”
“and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
Matthew 27:50- 53 KJV
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
2 Peter 3:8 KJV
in Christ we’re promised a resurrection at the culmination of the New Testament when the messiah comes again
“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. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 KJV
Each resurrection confirms to the promises of each testament the ot were promised a resurrection when the messiah arrived and the church is also promised a resurrection when the messiah arrives from heaven the second time with salvstion
The kingdom is in heaven until he comes
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