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Of course that was true - but that was at the time Christ was then speaking to Nicodemus. That statement did not remain true. We can see in Scripture exactly when resurrected mankind was first allowed access into heaven's temple, and it was when the seventh plague had been poured out in...

Bad translation of this verse. The word "First" applies to the verb "to shew light unto the people and to the Gentiles" - NOT to the verb "rise from the dead". Christ was the first to do this after He had risen from the dead with His command, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to...

No, it was only bodily resurrected believers who were caught up to heaven with Christ in AD 70. Any believers who had not yet died stayed on the planet. The typical "rapture" teaching needs some revision. Those "living" and "remaining" believers in 1 Thess. 4 who were to be caught up were...

No, it just goes against man's tradition. Anybody raised to life again bodily has been raised, not by their own power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. What is heretical is to say that once resurrected, that person can die again. Scripture declares this to be impossible. Nowhere in...

In your quote above, I put in parentheses my own understanding of the events each verse is describing. There definitely are repeating patterns throughout Revelation - some flashbacks, some presented chiastic style, and some showing recapitulation. For certain, not everything is strictly...

No, Christ was not the first human to be physically resurrected to an eternally glorified incorruptible form. That happened on several occasion in the OT as well as in the NT to quite a few individuals, even before Christ was raised from the dead. You see, there is a difference between the...

Wrong. The Isaiah 26 context IS speaking about the wicked dead never bodily rising again after death. In contrast to the wicked dead, Isaiah wrote of the righteous that, "Thy dead men SHALL live. Together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in dust: for thy dew...

That "everlasting fire" that was "prepared for the Devil and his angels" in Matt. 15:41 was the "furnace of fire" which was in Jerusalem, according to Isaiah 31:9. God's fire was in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem, it says. The wicked who were cast "alive" into that "Lake of Fire"...

Well, the time when Michael would "stand up" is directly connected in Daniel 12:1 to the time when there would be the unprecedented time of tribulation such as had never been before. This is the same as the unprecedented "great tribulation" in Judea and Jerusalem that Christ warned His...

Yes. But "hell" simply means "the grave". The physical mortal remains of the wicked dead as Christ said are "cast away" by being abandoned in the dust of the grave. The wicked dead never rise bodily (check out Isaiah 26:14 which says of the wicked dead that "they shall not rise"), but their...

Of course Daniel 12:1-3 prophesied of a resurrection with eternal glorified bodies for the saints. But that AD 70 bodily resurrection was not the last resurrection event. There is yet another one in our distant future. Christ was not a first-fruits of a spiritual new birth, because He had...

Yes, Dan. 12:2 does speak of a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. This is the same as Paul telling Felix in Acts 24:15 that there was "ABOUT TO BE a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust". This was soon to happen in Paul's first-century generation. But Christ...

The "Last Day" was the second coming of Christ back in AD 70. Daniel 12:11-13 had predicted the 1,335-day countdown to this, which ended with a resurrection in AD 70. But NO, that wasn't the "FIRST resurrection". The "first resurrection" was of "Christ the First-fruits" in AD 33, along with...

You are forgetting the symbolism of the Mosaic ritual of the "First-fruits" being waved in the temple back in Leviticus 23:10-12. The barley harvest would have a "First-fruits" sheaf handful of grain offered in the temple ALONG WITH a single he-lamb without blemish. This was meant to...

This is my favorite subject - the three successive resurrection events taught in Scripture. You don't need Terry to find this in Scripture. Just some digging in the Book. It's there to be found.

Question: The "last day" of what period? Remember, James 5:1-8 spoke against the rich men who had then "heaped treasure up in the last days" at that time James was writing. That heaped-up treasure which the rich men had gathered together in those "last days" of the first century was only going...

A prophecy is not always a prediction of future events. Sometimes it speaks about past events as well. As in Hosea 11:1. "When Israel was a child, I called my son out of Egypt..." When Israel as a nation was called out of Egypt in the Exodus, that young nation was considered a "child" at...

Of course Christ was called the "First-fruits". But that is a plural title, and also applied to the 144,000 First-fruits of Rev. 14:4 whose bodies were redeemed out of the earth and stood together with the risen Lamb on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In other words, the 144,000 Matthew 27:52-53...

What, do you yourself deny that Christ's resurrection and that of the Matthew 27:52-53 saints already took place? You don't understand what Hymenaeus and Philetus were teaching. Their mistake was in teaching that there would not be another resurrection to follow that "first resurrection" event...

None of these examples are Scripture's exact definition of exactly what the "abomination of desolation" was composed of. Specifically, Luke 21:20 defines this AOD phrase as being "Jerusalem surrounded by armies". Daniel 9:27 wrote that it would be "with the abominable armies he shall make it...