To All,
If I understand doctrines correctly, I'm confused as to the number of proposed versus Scripturally based resurrections. As such it seems most believe the following sequence:
FIRST: Pre-trib / Mid-Trib / Post-Trib resurrection of the dead, (and then they which are alive shall be caught up).
SECOND: Pre-Millennial resurrection of the martyred saints, who refused to receive the mark of the beast and were killed.
THIRD: Post-Millennial resurrection of the dead for the final judgment.
And my confusion lies in the text which is as follows:
Revelation 20:4-6
[sup]4[/sup] And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a[sup][a][/sup] thousand years. [sup]5[/sup] But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. [sup]6[/sup] 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 a thousand years.
And so you should see how I might have been confused, or possibly John was confused, in that he wrote this is the FIRST resurrection, when in fact we ~all~ know that this is actually the SECOND resurrection, -- or so I'm led to believe.
BibleScribe
If I understand doctrines correctly, I'm confused as to the number of proposed versus Scripturally based resurrections. As such it seems most believe the following sequence:
FIRST: Pre-trib / Mid-Trib / Post-Trib resurrection of the dead, (and then they which are alive shall be caught up).
SECOND: Pre-Millennial resurrection of the martyred saints, who refused to receive the mark of the beast and were killed.
THIRD: Post-Millennial resurrection of the dead for the final judgment.
And my confusion lies in the text which is as follows:
Revelation 20:4-6
[sup]4[/sup] And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a[sup][a][/sup] thousand years. [sup]5[/sup] But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. [sup]6[/sup] 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 a thousand years.
And so you should see how I might have been confused, or possibly John was confused, in that he wrote this is the FIRST resurrection, when in fact we ~all~ know that this is actually the SECOND resurrection, -- or so I'm led to believe.
BibleScribe