Resurrection
Promised
Your dead men will live, together with my
dead body will they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
I will ransom them from the power of the
grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be
your destruction: repentance will be hid from mine eyes. (Hosea 13:14)
Therefore prophesy and say to them, says the
Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And you will know that I am the LORD,
when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
(Ezekiel 37:12,13)
Martha says to him, I know that he will rise
again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and
the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet will he live:(John 11:24,25)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves will hear his voice, And will come forth; they
that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses
showed at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.
(Luke 20:37,38)
Some Rise with Spiritual Bodies and Some
with Earthly Bodies
But some man will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they come? You fool, that which the sow is not quickened,
except it die: And that which you sow, you sow not that body that will be, but bare grain,
it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God gives it a body as it has pleased
him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one
kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory
of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection
of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in
dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown
a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a
spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;
the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. How is it that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man
is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such
are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the
heavenly. (1 Corinthians 15:35-49)
Resurrection of Christ
He seeing this before spoke of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
corruption. (Acts 2:31)
That Christ should suffer, and that he
should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people,
and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26:23)
For I delivered to you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And
that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:(1
Corinthians 15:3,4)
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept. (1 Corinthians 15:20)
And declared to be the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (Romans
1:4)
And with great power gave the apostles
witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (Acts
4:33)
Beginning from the baptism of John, to that
same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
resurrection. (Acts 1:22)
Resurrection of the Church
And you will be blessed; for they cannot
recompense you: for you will be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. (Luke 14:14)
That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death;
If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. (Philippians 3:10,11)
For the Lord himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ will rise first: (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (1 Corinthians 15:23)
Blessed and holy is he that has part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God
and of Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years. (Revelation 20:6)
For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we will be also in the likeness of his resurrection:(Romans 6:5)
The General Resurrection
But this I confess to you, 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: And have hope toward God, which they
themselves also allow, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust. (Acts 24:14,15)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves will hear his voice, And will come forth; they
that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the
resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works. 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. (Revelation 20:12,13)
See Z’95-188; Z’01-121; F:693-729.
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