It is going to be difficult to prove those on thrones are not resurrected saints. After all, it is a resurrection chapter" "this is the first resurrection."
Well, those in v.4
b ARE "resurrected" saints... "
AND the souls of those having been beheaded [i.e. during the second half of the trib]...
AND THEY LIVED [
same Greek word as was used in 2:8 re: Jesus--see that verse] and reigned with Christ 1000 years" (<--
telling of the LAST saints to have DIED, saying these ALSO will be
resurrected in order to reign with Christ... along with the others "on thrones" [in v.4
a,
who are distinct persons...
separated by the "AND"];
Again, I see v.4
a to be parallel with
Dan7:22[25,27], which is also parallel to Daniel 12:12, as I see it, "
BLESSED is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335 days" [referring to "
still-living" saints at the time surrounding Christ's Second Coming
to the earth FOR the promised and prophesied
EARTHLY Millennial Kingdom, and ENTERING the MK age in their mortal bodies [capable of reproducing/bearing children], and
parallel about 8 other "BLESSED" passages speaking to the SAME issue and SAME point in time). I do not think v.4a
has to be LIMITED to
only "
still-living" saints (at that point in the chronology), but it certainly INCLUDES them, as I see it! For sure! (but the main point being that v.4
a persons
are being spoken of DISTINCTLY FROM the v.4
b persons [
who died / were beheading in the SECOND HALF only], though BOTH GROUPS are "saints / believers / saved persons")