He certainly does.
What he doesnt seem to understand is Lazaras resurrection was not a resurrection to glory like Jesus Glorious bodily resurrection. Laz has to wait for this the LAST day, when Jesus comes a second time, as do all the dead in Christ. Thats the meaning of Jesus being the first resurrection as the redeemed await the great day of the redemption of the body.
Lk 21
27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Romans 8:23
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the
redemption of our bodies.
- Ephesians 1:14
who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemptionof those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
- Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
The day of redemption is when we leave this body. Why would you need the Holy Spirit still keeping you, once you leave death behind? Do you need the Holy Spirit in heaven?
In Luke 21 Jesus is our redemption. That started on the Cross, when "It is finished" was declared.
But redemption is also on an individual level. There is not just one soul, and one body in heaven. There are millions, if not billions of individual souls, each having their own body.
Paul never said we get our permanent body in 2,000 years, nor at the Second Coming.
Paul said if one is physically alive they don't have to wait days after the Second Coming to physically die and then be resurrected. You are applying what Paul said about us dead humans on earth, to those already in Paradise.
You are also confusing the second birth with the first resurrection.
I never said Lazarus was resurrected to glory. That is your made up human opinion, not found anywhere in Scripture, and you all claim I make stuff up. Your made up human opinion is that Lazarus was resurrected back into a state of death. Man, I hope you don't get the same first resurrection you demand of Lazarus. Why would you want any one who spent time in death, to just be brought back into death, and continue in death. That is not a resurrection you offer, but a death sentence.
At what point was Lazarus redeemed? Luke 16. You can argue this is a different Lazarus, or whatever you want to make up, but let us say that Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom for 4 days, because that is how long he was physically dead.
"But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented."
If any soul was comforted, and no one could sin nor disobey God, what is redemption for, if they still needed redemption? Redemption is being free from sin and death, but some think redemption means some singular moment of change for all at one time. You all claim this wonderful ideal centered on Jesus, but deny the power given to every individual in Christ, because of the Cross.
The whole point centered around Abraham's bosom, was that Abraham was looking to enter that heavenly city and country not wait in a grave in sheol, in death as his ultimate goal. Paradise is more than just a garden where the tree of life is. And Abraham could enter Paradise once the Cross was physically realized on earth. That is why the thief could enter Paradise that day, and skip the OT requirement of waiting in Abraham's bosom.
Hebrews 11:13-16
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly."
Those promises which were far off, became a reality at the Cross, when all walked out of Abraham's bosom in physical bodies, waiting to ascend with Jesus to Paradise, that heavenly country. That was realized, that day for the thief on the cross. He received his physical body in Paradise. He was the first NT convert, who died after Abraham's bosom was emptied. He was ahead of the curve, because he did not have to wait for a resurrection out of Abraham's bosom like those under the OT economy waiting in Abraham's bosom.
You all have made up this point contrary to Scripture, that Jesus is the first resurrection, which is partly true. Jesus is the Word that spoke creation into being. So physical life is part of creation. But the first resurrection applied to humanity, is the physical resurrection, after physical death, after physical birth. Jesus did not have to be born to allow humans to be born, that was already a fact. Jesus did not have to physically die first in order for humans to physically die. That came from the first Adam. But to be made alive which includes the first physical resurrection, including physically leaving Abraham's bosom, Jesus had to conquer death and the grave, and Jesus did not have to physically raise first, as the same point, He did not need to be born first, nor die first, for humans to have that ability.
But you take the first resurrection and make that the second birth, taking away the physical aspect and placing it into the spiritual, when there was already a perfectly good term already being applied. Those waiting in Abraham's bosom did not need to be made alive. They needed a physical body and allowed into Paradise. They were alive and comforted in Abraham's bosom. They were naked without the permanent incorruptible physical body, as that was not necessary in the grave. However to come out of their grave necessitates they not walk around as a naked soul, but to be clothed upon as Paul put it in 2 Corinthians. And in Matthew 27 we see exactly that as they all left their graves in physical bodies.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live."
"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life."
That happened to the OT redeemed.
"and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
That is on hold, because that final hour is not until death is defeated.
"For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
Death and the grave/sheol are holding the dead until the final day of judgment. But the dead have to wait until called. Lazarus did not have to wait, and was called. So now you want us all to believe that Jesus did not call Lazarus out of the grave, nor did Lazarus physically appear, even though that is what John wrote. You just want that to be a parable about souls enjoying heaven.
Or Jesus was incapable of being the Resurrection and the Life, as Lazarus was still dead, needed redemption, and had to go back to sheol to wait with the rest of the dead for thousands of years. You have your minds made up in contradiction to plainly stated Scripture.