MOTB by itself does not always = LOF ??

[IndianaRob]

That is a strange verse, while they came to life again, scripture does not tell us what happens to to them. They could have been taken up with Christ at His accession. Feels cruel to push them back into the grave.

Ephesians 4
7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore He says:

“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”

9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also [d]first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

They were what is called “the captivity” in the Old Testament and the Bible says “he led captivity captive”. I take that to mean the captivity went up with Jesus.

But yeah it is a strange verse and only one New Testament account covers it.

 

[rwb]

Daniel is telling us that the resurrection will happen at a time when MANY of them that slept in the dust would awake <—- them rising was not the resurrection, them rising gave the clue to know when the resurrection would start.

There’s only one other place in the Bible where many bodies of the saints that sleep arose.

Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Resurrection in every instance is always bodily from physical death to physical life. The graves that were opened after Christ physically resurrected are spiritual bodies of saints that were said to be asleep even though their bodies were physically dead in the graves. These saints of Old were not bodily resurrected, because that would force contradiction into the Bible. Because the Bible speaks only of ONE bodily resurrection for all who are in the graves, both those who have done good and those who have done bad.

Christ tells us these bodies of saints arose, not resurrected. Because the bodies of the saints arose a spiritual body, not flesh and bone that shall not be resurrected before the hour that is coming when the last/seventh trumpet begins to sound. The city they entered and were seen by many is Jerusalem above, heavenly Jerusalem where spirits of just men made perfect have spiritually gone when they were born again.

Daniel is not telling us when the resurrection would start. He would not have said they sleep in the dust of the earth, he would have written they physically died and were buried to return to dust of the earth.

When the physical body of mankind dies the flesh and bone return to the earth, but the spirit (breath of life) that gave the physical body life returns to God in heaven. For that reason the spiritual body of Christ (faithful physically dead saints) ascend to heaven a spiritual body after our flesh is dead, that's why we read of living souls in heaven after the body has died.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

1 Corinthians 15:44 (KJV) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Revelation 20:4 (KJV) ............ 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.

 

[Scott Downey]

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They were what is called “the captivity” in the Old Testament and the Bible says “he led captivity captive”. I take that to mean the captivity went up with Jesus.

But yeah it is a strange verse and only one New Testament account covers it.

The captivity was Abraham's bosom, the place of the righteous dead of the OT times. It was a temporary place of good things, but not heaven. Christ is the only way to the Father in heaven. They could not go there to live with God the Father, until Christ came to bring them with Him into God's Prescence. Christ is the Way, Truth and Life, no one comes to the Father in heaven except through Him..

Hebrews 11, the faith chapter speaks about the faithful OT saints.
They could not yet receive the promise of eternal life, having to wait for Christ to be perfected.

39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

 

[Davidpt]

Explain how ONE RESURRECTION involving both the just and unjust at the same time doesn’t prohibit 1000 years.

Both resurrection events recorded in Dan 12:2 indeed happen together, and that they happen when Christ initially returns. Except none of it is meaning Revelation 20:11-15 though.

When Rev 20:11-15 takes place, regardless when it takes place, the saved are already in immortal bodies that happen in a twinkling of an eye at the last trump. It is absurd that those that awake to everlasting life in Dan 12:2 that the moment they rise they are then instantly present at the great white throne judgment. Except when they rise, they don't rise in order to be present at the GWTJ, they rise at the last trump which precedes the GWTJ and that they put on bodily immortality at that time. Thus they are bodily alive and that Rev 20:11-15 is involving a judgment of the dead not a judgment of the living.

It is a contradiction to put on bodily immortality the moment you rise from the dead and in this same moment when you rise you are standing at the GWTJ at the same time. Both can't be true. IOW, the last trump precedes the GWTJ not equals it. In Revelation 20:11-15, the moment any of them rise they are instantly standing before God at the GWTJ. This is simply not true of anyone that puts on bodily immortality in the twinkling of an at the last trump. Their next moment isn't the GWTJ, it is Revelation 19 and they being part of the armies formed seen coming with Christ in order to confront the beast and it's armies below. But let's just ignore details like that and insist the moment they rise, the next moment they are standing in front of God at the GWTJ. Who cares whether anything recorded in Rev 19 ever gets fulfilled post the sounding of the last trump. Right?

Therefore, but I'm not going to go into details yet again, which would be a big waste of my time, but it is the sheep and goats judgment that explain both resurrections events in Daniel 12:2, not the GWTJ instead.

 

[IndianaRob]

Resurrection in every instance is always bodily from physical death to physical life. The graves that were opened after Christ physically resurrected are spiritual bodies of saints that were said to be asleep even though their bodies were physically dead in the graves. These saints of Old were not bodily resurrected, because that would force contradiction into the Bible. Because the Bible speaks only of ONE bodily resurrection for all who are in the graves, both those who have done good and those who have done bad.

Christ tells us these bodies of saints arose, not resurrected. Because the bodies of the saints arose a spiritual body, not flesh and bone that shall not be resurrected before the hour that is coming when the last/seventh trumpet begins to sound. The city they entered and were seen by many is Jerusalem above, heavenly Jerusalem where spirits of just men made perfect have spiritually gone when they were born again.

Daniel is not telling us when the resurrection would start. He would not have said they sleep in the dust of the earth, he would have written they physically died and were buried to return to dust of the earth.

When the physical body of mankind dies the flesh and bone return to the earth, but the spirit (breath of life) that gave the physical body life returns to God in heaven. For that reason the spiritual body of Christ (faithful physically dead saints) ascend to heaven a spiritual body after our flesh is dead, that's why we read of living souls in heaven after the body has died.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

1 Corinthians 15:44 (KJV) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Revelation 20:4 (KJV) ............ 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.

I don’t know how to be any clearer rwb. Paul explains the resurrection using a seed.

You’re version of the resurrection has the seed body that rots in the ground as being transformed into a new plant.

Have you ever grown a garden or planted fruit trees or any other kind of seed?

The seed you plant rots in the ground. I mean after a plant is up and growing you can still see the old seed body right there still in the ground rotting.

 

[Davidpt]

Resurrection in every instance is always bodily from physical death to physical life. The graves that were opened after Christ physically resurrected are spiritual bodies of saints that were said to be asleep even though their bodies were physically dead in the graves. These saints of Old were not bodily resurrected, because that would force contradiction into the Bible. Because the Bible speaks only of ONE bodily resurrection for all who are in the graves, both those who have done good and those who have done bad.

Christ tells us these bodies of saints arose, not resurrected. Because the bodies of the saints arose a spiritual body, not flesh and bone that shall not be resurrected before the hour that is coming when the last/seventh trumpet begins to sound. The city they entered and were seen by many is Jerusalem above, heavenly Jerusalem where spirits of just men made perfect have spiritually gone when they were born again.

Daniel is not telling us when the resurrection would start. He would not have said they sleep in the dust of the earth, he would have written they physically died and were buried to return to dust of the earth.

When the physical body of mankind dies the flesh and bone return to the earth, but the spirit (breath of life) that gave the physical body life returns to God in heaven. For that reason the spiritual body of Christ (faithful physically dead saints) ascend to heaven a spiritual body after our flesh is dead, that's why we read of living souls in heaven after the body has died.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

1 Corinthians 15:44 (KJV) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Revelation 20:4 (KJV) ............ 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.

Why do you want to to contradict the text in Matthew 27:52? It clearly says their physical bodies not their souls/spirits. If their physical bodies did not come out of their graves then neither did Christ's physical body come out of the grave. Except no Christian is going to argue that Christ's physical body did not come out of His tomb. To argue in one manner pertaining to Christ, and in different manner pertaining to the saints meant, is cherry picking, thus not being consistent throughout.

 

[IndianaRob]

That is a strange verse, while they came to life again, scripture does not tell us what happens to to them. They could have been taken up with Christ at His accession. Feels cruel to push them back into the grave.

Ephesians 4
7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore He says:

“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”

9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also [d]first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

Matthew 27, they walked into the city, these saints of the OT
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

Jesus remains on earth with His people 40 days after His resurrection, He would have talked with them and showed them these people raised up. What a witness to the power of the resurrection that was to all the people. Sending them back to the grave as He ascends, seems like not what happened. Some have suggested the cloud contained both angels and people...

I don’t know for sure but I strongly think they are the reason revelation says “but the rest of the dead lived not again….” I think they were the first group and anyone after them would be the second group. Just speculation right now though.