John146 said:
Have you ever thought that Jesus was referring to a Jewish rapture and no th3 body of Christ? These passages are all concerning Israel.
In addition, the Bible teaches that there is ONLY ONE resurrection for the saved, and one for the unsaved.
Acts 24:15 - and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
This is extremely important. We know that with "resurrection" there is a "rapture" as well. So, the Bible says there is ONE event that will include the "rapture".
So now we can easily locate WHEN the "rapture" will occur; which is when the SINGLE resurrection occurs.
Since Acts 24:15 shows just TWO total resurrections, one for saved and one for unsaved, we can easily understand what Rev 20:5 teaches.
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(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
The red words refers to the resurrection of the unsaved, when they will appear AFTER the Millennial reign of Christ before the GWT judgment of Rev 20, before being cast into the lake of fire.
The blue words refers back to v.4 and the Tribulational martyrs. So we know exactly WHEN the saved are both resurrected AND "raptured". After the Tribulation when Christ comes back at the Second Advent.