My third flaw, as I see it, is 1 Cor 15:20-28 and 50-55. I think this passage marks a serious problem with the timing of Dispensational flow. QUOTE]
Well let us answer these verses and your explanation last to first.
Rev. 20:11-15
This is by implication the second resurrection!
Remember this passage:
20 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.
By the time of Jesus return, all the righteous dead will have been resurrected.
The resurrection at the end of the 1000 year kingdom, the second death has authority over them as SCripture explicitly says.
Matt. 25:31-46 The gathering of teh nations!
When Jesus physically returns, there will be survivors of the judgments of the tribulation and the campaign of Armageddon!
These are gathered before teh Lord and the sheep are the gentile believers and the goats are the gentile unbelievers. The believing Jews are with Jesus for He physically returned at Petra to break the siege of the Antichrist to wipe out all Jews and they march with Him and His angels to Jerusalem. 1/3 of all Jews will survive the tribulation and receive Jesus as Messiah (the all Israel of Romans 11 and Zech 13
So He judges all people! the goats go to the place of torment awaiting resurrecting to go to the lake of fire.
The sheep are granted entrance into the millenial kingdom on earth and repopulate the earth.
John 25: Yes a time is coming when the dead will hear his voice. However that verse is given further clarification to show that that "hour" is separated by at least 1,000 years. That word hour did not exist in Hebrew time and hour (hora) is a common word for a time!
Matt. 13:36-
Here I do not have the time to go into all the detail of the difference in this use of age. But in synopsis, Jesus is talking to the Jews (disciples) and is referring to the granting them of the kingdom. Age here does not = the two ages of time and eternity. Age does mean many things in SCripture.
YOUR 1 Cor. 15 passage fails to add one thing. The Church is clearly shown in heaven prior to Jesus return! REv. 19: The tribulation saints and OT saints in heaven shout for the wedding of Jesus has come and His bride (the church) has made herself ready and has been given her robes and linen fine and clean!
The problem with post trib or post millenial rapture is this:
The church is not complete in its number so the bride of Christ is not complete.
The bride is only teh church and in REv. 19 PRIOR to Jesus return- the bride is already ready and clothed- so she had to be taken to heaven and gone through the bema seat judgment. You simply cannot have members of the body of Christ on earth suffering the tribulation and yet the bride be ready to be married and she has nothing but righteousness.
My third flaw, as I see it, is 1 Cor 15:20-28 and 50-55. I think this passage marks a serious problem with the timing of Dispensational flow.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?” -1 Corinthians 15:15:20–28,50–55
You just forget when death is finally swallowed up in victory!
It occurs here!
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.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Even the lost are given incorruptible, immortal bodies prior to being cast into the lake of fire!