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.
Please do not post strawman responses to me.
It insults both of us.
As Paul explains clearly in 1Corinthians 15, The first resurrection, at the last trump, includes all of Yeshua’s assembly from the time of Adam onward. He mentions nothing of numbers, and especially not 144,000.
John, in the Revelation, ch 20, mentions no numbers either.
Yeshua himself said that there would be “few” that would follow his narrow path, but few is not a number either.
The GWT is 1000 years after the resurrection unto life, after the completion of the demonstration of the wickedness of man himself, without the influence of Satan, wich is followed by Satan’s final hurrah.
Nothing in the word of God indicates anything but judgement at the GWT. It is “the second death.”
>> “why does God have to resurrect the dead in order to cast them into the Lake of fire?” <<
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Because he is a just God, not a capricious master.
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