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To: Starwind
So I'm clear on your interpretation, could you please state exactly which verses in Rev 20 are the two "ressurections" and what order they happen, and could you then also show their correspondence to the two ressurections you allude to in John 5?

There are two resurrections mentioned in Revelation 20. The best way to show you these is to print out the passage, as follows:

1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. 6 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.

Several comments are in order:

First, the parentheses in v.5 are mine, but virtually all expositors recognize that the sentence is, indeed, parenthetical. The near demonstrative pronoun ("this") has to be referring to the "lived" idea in v.4.

The so-called second resurrection is found in the parentheses in v.5 ("lived not again until...")

The "lived" idea has been regarded by commentators as an idea of resurrection, but it actually just says "lived." The Greek word translated as resurrection in vv.5 and 6 is a more conventional word for resurrection.

651 posted on 11/26/2002 6:43:30 PM PST by the_doc
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To: rdb3
I meant to include you as an addressee in that post to Starwind.
654 posted on 11/26/2002 6:54:32 PM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc
The so-called second resurrection is found in the parentheses in v.5 ("lived not again until...")

So, if I follow correctly, implicitly then the dead at the white throne judgement are the 2nd "resurrection". Right?

Rev 20:11-14
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 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. 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. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

And so upon the 2nd "resurrection" these souls are immediately judged to condemnation, the 2nd death (according to works, not according to justification in Christ). Right?

Since they were already dead spiritually and physically, and condemned (thus not spiritually resurrected), their resurrection was only physical for the purposes of judgement and condemnation. Right?

But your answer didn't include corresponding these two resurrections to John 5:25-28. Could you do that please?

660 posted on 11/26/2002 7:14:56 PM PST by Starwind
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