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Poster Handle Achduke7
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What people are hung up on is the fact that there are different time periods that the First Resurrection occurs. This is lost on so many and the cause of great confusion.

All Old Testament Saints, all who've died in Christ since His finished work on the cross, and all who are alive when the pre-tribulation Rapture occurs are all a part of the First Resurrection and will celebrate and take part in the Wedding Feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb which will occur in Heaven during the 7-year Tribulation on earth. What makes the pre-tribulation Rapture extremely unique is the people alive who are taken will never experience death in any form whatsoever and is why the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:55, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?". These people taken in the pre-tribulation Rapture to celebrate in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will in fact never experience death.

Those left behind who turn to Christ and die that are saved during the 7-year Tribulation will be given white robes and are told to remain under the altar until the rest of their brothers and sisters are killed during the allotted time frame of the 7-year Tribulation (Rev. 6:11). These are referred to as Tribulation Saints. These dead Tribulation Saints are told to wait because there will be a post-tribulation Rapture of these Saints who died during the Tribulation and they too will also receive their glorified bodies and will reign with Christ during His millennial reign-


Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.)

This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:4-5



These Tribulation Saints are also considered a part of the First Resurrection.



Those physically alive during Christ's Second Coming to earth where He steps foot on the Mt of Olives in judgment who are saved will enter into Christ's millennial reign on earth in earthly bodies, not glorified bodies and their offspring will populate Christ's millennial Kingdom. When these people die in Christ's millennial reign, they too will be a part of the First Resurrection because they are saved and have their inheritance of eternal life in Christ.


The Second Resurrection however is a singular event that takes place at the end of Christ's millennial reign where all of the unsaved dead in the history of mankind who are all waiting in hell are resurrected and stand before Jesus Christ and are judged individually for each of their sins and because they do not have Jesus' righteous covering for their sins, they are judged according to the Law by their works and they along with Satan, the fallen angels, and hell and death itself will be cast into the Lake of Fire.

Afterward, God creates a New Earth which will resemble the Garden of Eden but better and the Heavens and the New Jerusalem which is God's throne will descend down upon the New Earth and the Father will reign supreme with His family on earth.

The Bible ends there.


Accept Jesus today and give your life to Him as you're not promised your next breath.
 Quoting: Seek^


The resurrection happens in an instant. You are really stretching and twisting verses to fit your view.

1Co 15:52 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.

At least you accept the tribulation saints are part of the 1st resurrection as noted in Revelation 20:4-6. That is a first step.
 Quoting: Achduke7

Not stretching anything, you’re simply misinterpreting and misunderstanding the context of the scripture you referenced above. The twinkling of an eye is in regard to the pre-tribulation Rapture and the last trump, not trumpet as so many misinterpret. That “trump” is not a trumpet but is actually Jesus’ voice which sounds like a trumpet when He calls His church up on the Lord’s day.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:10-11






The church is mentioned 19 times in the first three chapters of Revelation. The very first verse after these chapters in Chapter 4 of Revelation is a foreshadowing of the pre-tribulation Rapture of the church and the church is therefore never mentioned again through the detailed description of the 7-year Tribulation which spans from Chapters 4-20. The reason for this is because the church isn’t on earth and is taking part in the Wedding celebration in Heaven during the 7-year Tribulation.

You will also notice that the title of Chapter 4 in Revelation is titled “The Throne Room” because this is exactly where those Raptured in the pre-tribulation Rapture will stand which is the Judgment Seat of Christ so they may receive their heavenly rewards for their time on earth and will be told to rest from their labors and enter Heaven.

The Throne Room of Heaven

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”

Revelation 4:1
 Quoting: Seek^


The whole of Revelation was to the churches.

Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.
 
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