I forgot this
1 Corinthians 15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
1 Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become
the firstfruits of them that slept.
Who was sleeping/asleep/dead when Christ was crucified that He became the first fruits of?
Matthew 27:50 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.
WHAT IS WRITTEN IS
CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD,
THOSE THAT SLEPT ALSO ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
CHRIST BECAME THE FIRST FRUTS OF THOSE who slept and WHO ROSE FROM THE DEAD.
THIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD TOOK PLACE 2000 YEARS AGO
1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead.
We are told AGAIN RIGHT HERE THAT RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD TOOK PLACE.
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
All are going to be resurrected to face judgment. Just like Adam made everyone die, Christ will make everyone wake up from the dead. Many of those who were already dead when Christ rose up, rose up also. The resurrection from the dead came when Christ defeated death,
just like death comes for us all. Death doesn't wait to claim it's own 'till the end' and Christ doesn't wait to 'claim His own' till the end. Death came we die. Life came we live.
I set before you life and death, blessings and cursing's. Choose life.
As to your question
1 Corinthians 15:23
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
EVERY MAN is working towards A RANK. That RANK is anywhere between Vessel of Gold unto honor down to vessel of wood unto dishonor.
CHRIST THE FIRST FRUIT has the highest honor. He rises higher than anyone else ever will.
ALL those who are CHRISTS -
those who while they yet live believe in Him - NEVER DIE and so follow Him to heaven, will be placed in their own order in heaven.
One way to see it
AND YOUR WORKS DO FOLLOW YOU.
Another way
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you
, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Now a days Satan has everyone keeping their eye on the free gift of Salvation and arguing over 'works salvation' to keep them from seeing what is really taking place.
Yeshua paid a HIGH price to make sure that SIN didn't let death take hold of us for even a short time. HE PAID THE PENALTY, tasted death for us. And everyone keeps thinking 'I'll just repent for my sins' and go to heaven WHICH IS TRUTH,
but somehow everyone seems to miss THERE IS STILL a JUDGMENT to be made.
It is in JUDGMENT that ones'
RANK or '
every man in his own order' or that
BODY 'but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain But
God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed his own body' comes about. Some are happy just being saved. Some want to be a good workman for GOD. Some are aware of RANK, others have no clue.
Ever noticed how organized everything was when Jesus did something. Example of one is gave orders to have them sit in groups of fifty and then passed out the victuals. JUST LIKE THE MILITARY. LOTs about GOD is fashioned that way.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all t
he host of them.
6635. tsaba ►
Strong's Concordance
tsaba:
army, war, warfare
Original Word: צָבָא
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: tsaba
Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-baw')
Definition: army, war, warfare
organized for war
host (organized body) of angels
of the entire creation, כל צבאם Genesis 2:1
appointed time, army, battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon,
Or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}; from tsaba'; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. Organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship) -- appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
FINALLY getting to my point...
5001. tagma ►
Strong's Concordance
tagma: that which has been arranged in order, spec. a division, rank
Original Word: τάγμα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: tagma
Phonetic Spelling: (tag'-mah)
Definition:
that which has been arranged in order, a division, rank
Usage: rank, division, an ordered series.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 5001 tágma (a neuter noun) –
an ordered arrangement, reflecting God's perfect wisdom in ordering all of creation (it only occurs in 1 Cor 15:23). See 5021 (tassō).
5001 /tágma ("order") extends to the principle of God's ordering to its natural results.
[Compare Ps 139:16 with Eph 1:11; cf. Ps 119:89-91 with Ac 4:28, 17:26-31.]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from tassó
Definition
that which has been arranged in order, spec. a division, rank
NASB Translation
order (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5001: τάγμα
τάγμα, ταγματος, τό (τάσσω);
a. properly, that which has been arranged, thing placed in order.
b.
specifically, a body of soldiers, a corps: 2 Samuel 23:13; Xenophon, mem. 3, 1, 11; often in Polybius; Diodorus 17, 80; Josephus, b. j. 1, 9, 1; 3, 4, 2; (especially for the Roman 'legio' (examples in Sophocles Lexicon, under the word, 3)); hence, universally, a band, troop, class: ἕκαστος ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ τάγματι (the same words occur in Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 37, 3 [ET] and 41, 1 [ET]),
1 Corinthians 15:23, where Paul specifies several distinct bands or classes of those raised from the dead (A. V. order. Of the 'order' of the Essenes in Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 3. 8).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
division, class, group
From tasso; something orderly in arrangement (a troop), i.e. (figuratively) a series or succession -- order.
Or, I could be wrong and it's just Christ rose first and since then everyman gets in line when he dies and he sees them then.
So much like that pre trib rap claim. You ask and ask and ask...and the one thing you never get is Scripture.