Biblical illiteracy comes from “studies” that play games with the word of God.
The GWT is not a path to eternal life; it is justice for those that had no respect for the word.
The First Resurrection is the only resurrection unto life.
It is the one and only moment at which YHVH’s elect receive their incorruptible body, permitting them entry to the realm of God. (1Corinthians 15)
Try reading the 2nd chapter of 2 Thess, the whole thing, then read 1Thess 4:13-18. One clue to dispensational tools for understanding the bible is the use of the term ‘saints’. There are different saints, depending upon which dispensation you’re loking at. The Church Age Saints are different from Pre-Messiah Saints, and different from Tribulation Saints.
When Jesus raised Lazarus from the tomb, after so long there that Lazarus had started to stink (he was decomposing), when Jesus raised him was that the first resurrection? When the quilt lady, Dorcas, raised to life again was she in the first resurrection? When Elijah raised the boy to life, was that boy in the first resurrection? When Paul restored the life to the boy who fell out of the upper floor window during that long night of preaching/teaching, was he in the first resurrection?
So then as some understand it - the First Resurrection is limited to 144,000 of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Everyone else hits the Lake of Fire after the GWTJ, because as you assert - only the First Resurrection is unto life.
The questions is asked, if there is a First Resurrection - there must be another or more in order for there to be a ‘first’. And if it is as some say - a resurrection to damnation - why does God have to resurrect the dead in order to cast them into the Lake of fire?
You assert only the first Resurrection is unto life. What is the point of more resurrections then? Judgment? Eternal life in ‘hell’? Would that not be similar to ‘Wake up and go to sleep”?? And if the First Resurrection is the only resurrection unto eternal life - how can there be another resurrection unto eternal life in hell?
Questions I’m oft asked. Curious how you handle them.