First, an event was coming soon by the authors of the New Testament. “At His coming,” those who belong to Christ will be raised (1 Cor. 15:23, cf. 1 Thess. 4:16, “the dead in Christ will rise first”). This resurrection is described in Revelation 20:4 as a “coming to life” and a “reigning with Him…
Regarding the wicked in the resurrection, it has been pointed out in refuting a bodily resurrection that the wicked are taken up in the harvest along with the righteous. If so, then who would remain on the earth if Jesus came in 70 AD? The parables in Matthew 13 reveal a separation and in the…
The resurrection is both a spiritual and bodily restoration. It is believed by some that the resurrection excludes a bodily resurrection because the restoration of Israel was a spiritual renewal of dead Israel brought back to life. There is no doubt that the resurrection motif refers to the restoration of fellowship to the dead ones….
Revelation 20 speaks of the binding of Satan at the start of the thousand-year reign of Christ, and 1 Corinthians 15 speaks of the “end” of the age when he delivers the kingdom to God after abolishing all authority and power. It seems clear that 1 Corinthians 15 is the “first resurrection” of Revelation 20….
We should not think of Jesus delivering the kingdom to the Father in 1 Corinthians 15 as if he is relinquishing His post and ending his reign. First, if deliver here means surrender, or abdicate, what does it mean in verse two? The same word in the same chapter speaks of Paul delivering the message…
When Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:24, “then comes the end,” the “end” is the same consistent end spoken of throughout the New Testament – the end of the Jewish era. We have nothing in the scriptures that use this language to refer to the end of time or the end of the world (kosmos)….
Admittedly, the resurrection is not easy for a person of mortality to comprehend, fully. This writing may need to be revised or recanted if further study leads to another conclusion. Anyone who arrogantly digs his or her heels in the ground and makes no effort to re-think and investigate previous conclusions have allowed pride to…
Daniel’s prophecy not only gives us the time but describes the event as a resurrection. After the great tribulation, multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake. It reads, “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has…
From the preceding discussion of the marriage to the gathering of the elect, all of them relate to the same glorious event. Consider when this was expected to come. One vision has Christ’s new wife making herself ready for the marriage (Rev. 19:7). In another vision, John sees the prophets and saints rewarded “immediately after”…
When Paul summarizes the resurrection theme in the Corinthian letter, he is writing to some who were denying the resurrection, which may be the result of the perverse teachings of Hymenaeus and Philetus who taught it had already passed. If it had already passed, then the obvious conclusion is that some were not expecting it,…