“And in a futurist understanding they are going to be resurrected to see this avenging... I thought you had a more complex argument than this.”
Nope. Not when you have Jesus saying this to His disciples in Matthew:
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Matthew 16:27-28
No less than Christ Himself said He would come in His Father’s glory (read up on what that means in the OT) While some of them lived, not in the resurrected sense but in the still-living-on-earth, flash-and-blood sense.
Or perhaps you think Christ was mistaken?
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Matthew 16 is not about the first resurrection!
It was speaking of the transfiguration.
Matthew 24 is where he begins to speak about the end of the rule of men, and the first resurrection.
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