The First Resurrection:
[John 5:25-27 KJV] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
[26] For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
[27] And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
If You Know CHRIST (Hear His Voice), you have His LIGHT …which is LIFE
darkness = hell …there are rulers of hell …the false church
[Ephesians 6:12 KJV] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
[Isaiah 9:2 KJV] The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
[Matthew 4:16 KJV] The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
[Acts 22:6 KJV] And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
[Matthew 6:23 KJV] But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
[2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV] Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
The First Resurrection:
[Eph 5:14-16 KJV]
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
[15] See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
[16] Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
The First Resurrection:
[Rom 6:13 ESV]
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
The First Resurrection:
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
The First Resurrection:
1 Corinthians 15:42 (KJV)
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Do you have Life? Then you are in The First Resurrection:
Revelation 20:4 KJV — … and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Sounds like The First Resurrection to me:
Luke 11:32 KJV — The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Being Quickened is being Raised to The Living Relationship:
Psalm 119:91-93 KJV — They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
They were waiting for The First Resurrection:
Philippians 3:10-11 KJV — That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
The First Resurrection: there are a whole lot of goats today:
Matthew 25:31-34 KJV — When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
to perish from The Way is to be put into delusion that you are Saved …hell …resurrection of the damned:
Psalm 2:12 KJV — Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
We already know the first death is Fire Baptism (Rom 6) with a Resurrection with CHRIST. So the First Resurrection is The Reborn …not something for the future. So what does this say about the second death?
[Revelation 20:6 KJV] 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.
[Revelation 2:11 KJV] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
[Revelation 21:7 KJV] He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
[Revelation 20:14 KJV] And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
[Revelation 21:8 KJV] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
so if you are in the false church …you are in hell …your Relationship to GOD is dead.
all forms of Eschatology agree with each other that they currently have imputed Righteousness (That CHRIST had your personal sins on His Cross). Full Preterists think He Returned to hand out imputed Righteousness. Partial Preterists think The First Resurrection gave them imputed Righteousness. and Premills think they got imputed Righteousness from His Cross …but won’t be fully Righteous until they get their magic bodies.
The only way you avoid a Final Judgment is to have your old man on your Cross (you don’t get to substitute yourself with The Advocate). You would have already Walked in The SPIRIT past the Angels guarding The Tree of LIFE. You would have already have Entered New Jerusalem.
Have you Resurrected to a Throne (Cross) …or have you Resurrected off a Throne?
[Revelation 20:4 KJV] And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: …
“Live Again” is one Greek word …aka Rebirth. It’s Saying The Resurrection has two parts and they didn’t start at the same time:
Revelation 20:5 NKJV — But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Daniel 12:2
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 5:28-29
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.
Acts 24:14-15
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Revelation 20:13
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
JESUS’ Coming was The Kingdom Coming around 70 A.D.:
[2 Timothy 4:1 KJV] I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
//Paul said JESUS WILL Save him into His Kingdom …The Kingdom wasn’t there yet:
[2 Timothy 4:18 KJV] And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
There is a Resurrection of the Just …That’s the First Resurrection. Those in The First are Blessed …doesn’t Say they are in the Second:
Do you have a Seat at The Table of Righteousness in The Kingdom of GOD?
Luke 14:14 KJV — And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Revelation 20:6 KJV — 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.
Luke 14:15 KJV — And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Ezekiel 44:16 KJV — They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
Acts 3:19 KJV — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Luke 22:30 KJV — That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Isaiah 28:12 KJV — To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
King David helped someone under Saul eat at his table?
2 Samuel 9:3 KJV — And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel 9:10-11 KJV — Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king’s sons.