The Saints Are Resurrected (First
Resurrection)
- REVELATION 20:
- 4 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon
them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them
that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of
God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years."
- 6 "Blessed and holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no
power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years."
JOHN 5:
- 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour
is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his
voice,
- 29 And shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have
done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
- 1 THESSALONIANS 4:
- 16 "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:"
- NOTE:
- Notice that the Saints, the
“blessed and holy,” are the ones who take part in the first
resurrection. The Saints are with Christ during the thousand years, so
they will have to be resurrected at the beginning of the Millennium.
Revelation 20:6
- People who have been
“beheaded,” as a witness for Jesus, would certainly be
dead but John saw them alive (“they lived and reigned with
Christ”) during the Millennium. These people must be included in
the “first resurrection.” Revelation 20:4 John saw them alive
because they had been called back to life by Christ in the “first
resurrection.” John 5:28,29
Place this event at the beginning of the Millennium.
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