This made a bit more sense to me. If all the dead rise who are going to rise at that time, it IS a resurrection and it makes no sense to me to dice it a different way. And to dice it a different way makes you still have to fit in two resurrections, which, off the top of my head, I guess one could maybe attempt…as long as you still follow the lines of harvesting and how it is done - smaller first fruits, the greater harvest, the gleaning before you mow it all down.The meaning isn't different, it's just a different way to say the same thing which is common in all languages.
"the dead in Christ rise first" which is linguistically related to "the first resurrection". Both are speaking of the same event.
1Th_4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
"Rise first" is literally the same as "first resurrection" found here:
Rev 20:4 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.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
first/G4413 resurrection/G386 is "protos anastasis"
Rise/G450 first/G4412 is "anistemi proton"
Proton and protos are related words that both mean "first". Proton is the neuter of the word protos. They are synonyms and are directly related words.
anastasis was created from it's root word, anistemi. They are synonyms and are directly related words.
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