Scripture Decoded and Unsealed

3 Resurrections said:

Paul’s evangelistic efforts were able to reach everyone in Asia by the time Acts 19:10 was written. This in spite of having no internet.

Also, don’t forget, there was an indestructible force of 144,000 resurrected First-fruits saints (raised from Jewish graves around Jerusalem in Matthew 27:52-53) who were not bound with the normal limitations of ordinary men. Just how much evangelistic ground do you imagine just one resurrected saint could have covered in those days between AD 59/60 when Revelation was written until AD 66 when the Great Tribulation cranked up? Billy Graham’s evangelistic efforts would have paled in comparison. And there were 144,000 of these indestructible, immortal individuals who would never get sick or die again, get tired, succumb to temptation, or have family obligations such as children or a wife to attend to. Conceivably, everyone in the entire world could have heard a gospel presentation from one of these 144,000 First-fruits resurrected individuals by the time AD 70 rolled around.

good grief dude, The First Resurrection of Rev 20 is The Resurrection of The Just …no zombies …It was people starting to become what 1 Cor 15 Describes. satan was bound from the Heavenly Courts. but people were still free to eat from the tree of knowledge and make their own definitions of good and evil. THE RESURRECTION is in two parts …The Just were the first part …then you have a long period of time of them becoming Adopted …The Thousand Years didn’t start in Chapter 20 …more like 12.

3 Resurrections said:

I agree with you. That is exactly what the resurrection in Matthew 27:52-53 involved – the bodily resurrection of nothing but 144,000 “First-fruits” saints, raised to a changed, immortal, incorruptible life on the very same day as Christ’s resurrection. That resurrection event was the “First resurrection”, to be followed by another which would include both the just and the unjust in a judgment, as Paul told Felix was about to happen (Acts 24:15 & 25).

I agree with this too. The literal Thousand years started in Rev. 12, but they ENDED with the “First resurrection” in AD 33 involving “Christ the First-fruits” and the 144,000 “First-fruits” (the Matt. 27:52-53 resurrected group). That group was the Rev. 20 “remnant of the dead” that came to life again when the thousand years had finished and expired.

There isn’t a Secondary Resurrection of The Just. The First Resurrection of Rev 20 was 70 A.D. …they could finally be Redeemed.

[Romans 8:23 KJV] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Only those in the First Resurrection are Blessed.

[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.