I was just reading:
The Two Resurrections
There is a serious misconception that there will only be one resurrection. Nowhere in the Scriptures are we taught that! While it is true that all the dead will be raised and judged, neither the place, time, nor the judgments are the same.
Several passages speak of a separate resurrection of believers and unbelievers.
John says there will be two resurrections for two classes of people. One will be raised to “eternal life” while the other to a “resurrection of condemnation” (
John 5:28-29).
Luke 14:14 also speaks of a “resurrection of the just.” Since everyone will be resurrected, there has to be a “resurrection of the unjust.” This concept of a separate resurrection of the just and unjust is repeated by Paul in
Acts 24:15 when he testified before Felix.
And John makes a clear distinction between the two in
Revelation 20:4-5. He says, “… I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and the word of God. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.”
Here, we have the souls of the believing dead waiting for their own resurrection. This takes place after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.
Love, Walter
did you notice this part
“Martha saith unto him, I know that
he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord:
I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
( Martha thought her brother would live at the end but few minutes later )
And when he thus had spoken, he cried
with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And
he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
John 11:24-27, 43-44 KJV
or this
“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 27:51-53 KJV
Or notice this man who’s death is impending moments away
“And he said unto Jesus,
Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him,
Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Luke 23:42-43 KJV
There are Jesus disciples that follow after him they hear the gospel and accept it he becomes thier lord truly they aren’t perfect but they inderersnd and embrace and accept that he is the lord his word is the final word
They are in this group
“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 5:24 KJV
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
John 8:51
this is one group of people they accept his word and then there’s the other group who rejects the judges word
“He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
John 12:48 KJV
There are two groups of people in creation ne group will hear and believe and embrace the gospel as truth , the other group will reject the gospel as folly and nonsense
In the end all
the dead will be raised for judgement the last day
this doesn’t I curse the living who we’re born of the spirit of life they aren’t waiting for a resurrection they already received Jesus in life and passed through death with him in baptism
“Know ye not, that
so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:3-4 KJV
When a Christian died they aren’t going to the grave or he’ll they are already with Jesus more alive than we are
The last resurrection is only for the dead all of the dead will be raised up one to everlasting life others to damnation
Christian’s accept life now because they accept his judgements now and repent now .all non believers will be raised in the end and judged by every deed and word without atonement because they rejected him
But as for timing of the resurrection of the dead it’s one event in the end when Jesus returns
“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
see the order jesus returns from heaven with the last trump , the
dead in Christ are raised up and those who were still alive are caught up together her with all believers of all time just before the destruction of the rest
“and to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe
in that day.”
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 KJV
Awee oauo is describing one event but different groups of people is what I’m saying here’s another aspect
“Behold,
I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but
we shall all be changed, in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 KJV
See again the order the trumpet Jesus return the resurrection of the dead and salvstion of believers (even some of the dead ) before wrath comes on the creation
a there’s a resurrection in Christ an escape from death but there’s also a promise that he will raise up all things in the last day then we find out about judgement and the lake of fire
“And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again at the last day.”
John 6:39 KJV
In Christ there’s a promise of everlasting life and then there’s a promise for resurrection of the dead in the end