TABLE of CONTENTS
The Doctrine of the RESURRECTIONS from the Dead
Chapter 1. The Resurrections and God’s Judgment How the Resurrections are Essential in allowing a Correct Understanding of How ALL in Due Order will Have Opportunity for Salvation.
Chapter 2. The RESURRECTIONS from the DEAD According to Hebrews Chapter 6, the ‘Resurrection from the Dead’ is identified as one of six Fundamental Christian Doctrines. To fully fathom this Essential Truth, we need to examine carefully the other Resurrections as revealed in: Revelation 20 and John 5.
Chapter 3. Understanding the THREE Resurrections Many in God’s Church have serious difficulty fully explaining the Doctrine of the Resurrections from the Dead. Our Counterparts in the Catholic and Protestant worlds find the matter to be even more Theologically Formidable! Is there Solid Biblical Proof of this Understanding?
Chapter 4. The ‘REJECTED’ RESURRECTION Despite Significant Mention, Even By Christ Himself, This Resurrection Has Been Disregarded and Pointedly Ignored by the Religious Establishment, As It Finds No Place in Their Cherished Theological Scenarios. When and Why will the ancient Ninevites Condemn this generation?
Chapter 5. The Early and Latter Rains The Early Church Understood the Essence of what Worshippers today seem NOT to Understand. Can Generations of False Teachings Account for the Loss of a General Awareness of a Significant Prophetic Illustration that the Early Church had?
Chapter 6. The Days of Salvation Hand in Glove with the Predestination Teaching is the Belief that THIS is the ONLY Day of Salvation. It is Believed that Anyone Not ‘Saved’ TODAY Should Anticipate Spending Eternity in an Ever Burning HELL ! ? Is that Common Perception actually TRUE?
Chapter 7. The HOPE of “ The Last Great Day ” A MAJOR Component in the Plan of God is illustrated in a Separate Holyday: the Seventh, Yet One which Remains ‘Well Off the Screen’ when it comes to being Understood by the ‘Accepted’ Religious Community! WHY are so many unable to see the Significance of this Day?
Chapter 8. The REST of the Dead At Times, Seemingly Simple Verses Can Offer Profound Realizations. Revelation 20:5 Is One Such Passage. Does the Religious Establishment Have Sufficient Understanding to Accommodate What this Verse Clearly Reveals Regarding the vast Numbers who Died Unconverted?
Chapter 9. Blessed are those who Die in the Lord From Henceforth! The Book of Revelation contains Many Extraordinary Passages. But, What IS the Point of telling us Something we’ve Known All Along? Is there a Relevant Point in this statement that has long been Overlooked?
Chapter 10. And No Place was Found for Them! A Very Curious Comment with Regard to those to be Resurrected After the Millennial Age is Found in Revelation 20. The Implications of this Comment Provide More Insight than is Usually Noted or Expounded Upon.
Chapter 11. WHOSOEVER Will May Come! Evangelical Christians, who hold that This is the ONLY Day of Salvation, Often Refer to a Passages in John 7 and another in the benediction of Revelation 22 to allege that Anyone who wishes May Come to the LORD at any time without Restriction!
Chapter 12. And So, All ISRAEL Shall be Saved The Apostle Paul lamented the situation with regard to his physical Kinsmen not being afforded Salvation in this age. You would think they’d be THE Prime Candidates for Salvation, though the Historical Record has proven otherwise! When does their day come?
Chapter 13. The Saints Which Slept Arose Rarely Mentioned and Little Understood, (Even Pointedly Ignored), a Brief Reference in Matthew 27 Poses Profound Considerations. Why Did God the Father Raise Certain ‘Saints’ at the time of Christ’s Resurrection?
Chapter 14. Why Must Satan be Released from Prison? Revelation 20 shows Satan being held in the Bottomless Pit for 1000 years. For WHAT possible reason will he be Released Again after the Millennium?
Chapter 15. The 14th Chapter of Revelation This Revealing Chapter steps aside from the Book's sequential narrative to present an Oblique look at the three main segments of Humanity, as it Relates to being awarded their Just and Due Rewards. Has religion fully appreciated its Comprehensiveness? Encapsulated within this Chapter is a Message Profoundly Revealing with respect to God's Plan for the Salvation of ALL the world's un-evangelized masses.
Chapter 16. Blood to the Horses' Bridles A Most Astounding Visual Picture is Presented in Revelation 14:20 of a flow of Blood as deep as Horses' Bridles, extending out for 1600 furlongs. What Extraordinary Event is being described here, and is it a Reality?
Chapter 17. Defining the Second Death Inherent with the Doctrine of the Resurrections from the Dead is a Co-Dependent Phenomenon identified in Scripture as ‘the Second Death’. How Many Christians Understand what this Unique Penalty Involves? Who Ultimately will be Included in THIS ’Final Solution’?
Chapter 18. The Incorrigibly Wicked In the process of Understanding the Resurrections to Life Immortal, We Encounter a Category of individuals who Populate the opposite extreme: Those who merit Eternal Death.
Christ’s Personal ‘Three-Resurrections’ Exposé thru John! ( John 5 / Rev. 20 )
( In these two passages, all three resurrections are presented together, comprehensively in sequence. Light: John 5 / Bold: Rev. 20 )
¶ “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. ¶ “And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them…And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him for a thousand years.” These are they in the first resurrection, occurring at Christ’s Second Coming, prior to the Great White Judgment Throne, in which they will also co-officiate! (1st Cor 6:2 & Mal 3:18)
¶ Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear [1] will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. ¶ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. (to be assigned?) And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. This resurrection provides opportunity for those who never had a chance to respond to God’s call and live ‘by the things written in the books’: their names then being added into the Book of Life. No such opportunity is referred to in the next and final resurrection. The only book referred to there is the Book of Life, and that, only for the purpose of seeing whose names are written in it!! And, notice, that final resurrection is all-inclusive! This previous one wasn’t, nor did it impose the ‘second death’!
Judgment: Involves an evidentiary period first before proceeding to the sentencing phase.
¶ Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. ¶ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works…This is the second death. This final ‘sentencing and consignment’ resurrection involves all who ever lived (excepting only those first resurrected) and is that ‘sheep from goats’ separation to sentencing Christ explicitly referred to in Matthew 25: verses 31 – 46.
The first resurrection is direct into Life. Then the second is to afford ‘judgment and justice’ to those who died never having had opportunity. The third is for final sentencing of all either to life or to condemnation: the second death! The second death is experienced by no-one, without their first having passed through an evaluative judgment period. For the Saints of God, that evaluation period is now! [2] For the rest, the dead who were never called at least, that period is after the thousand years are finished!
Now that we can understand from the above passages, the essential doctrine of the resurrections of the dead, and as a result, another one listed there in Hebrews 6: that of eternal judgment, how judgment and justice will come to all in their appointed time, we are ready to understand the vital purpose for the Last Great Day. God has a PLAN that ‘not any should perish’ (needlessly). That plan also happens to be His WILL! This Last Great Day is the Day for ‘them too’! After the Millennial Age, and after Satan’s brief release, those dead who never had an opportunity to know the Truth, and to respond to it, by having God’s Spirit offered to them (which is essential to True Salvation) will be raised again, still physical, to be offered that opportunity. They will live in an age absent of Satan’s influence, as did their physical predecessors in the Millennial Kingdom. They will be allowed to live out that lifetime and will stand with those brought up in the third resurrection for final sentencing, whether good or bad. (consider also Matthew 22:30).
[1]
Notice here the wording, suggesting that
not all
in this contingent will hear. In the
next
resurrection, ALL
will
hear! [2]
1st
Peter 4:17…judgment
must begin at the house of God... This is for
evaluation, (evidence gathering) not condemnation.