First just one QUESTION, "if the Battle of Armageddon happens PRIOR to Christ's "thousand years" reign, why have a second resurrection when all the dead small and great stand before christ in the final Judgment". listen good, Revelation 20:5 "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection".
so you have dead that will live after the 1,000 years. please explain.
PICJAG.
You're not gonna' like my explanation of that, since it's apparent you've been taught there's people still in flesh bodies after Jesus' return.
Fact 1: when Jesus returns on the "day of the Lord", man's works on this earth will be burned up by God's consuming fire. We know this from 2 Peter 3:10-12 and from the end of Hebrews 12, and from the OT prophets. Isaiah 25 even reveals the veil of this present world is going to be removed for all nations, as that is where Apostle Paul was pulling from about death being swallowed up in victory when teaching this in 1 Cor.15. This event is what will end this present world and usher all peoples into the world to come. Not just those in Christ alive on earth will be 'changed' at the twinkling of an eye on that "last trump", but all peoples alive on earth will be changed, to the "spiritual body". That is one of the mysteries taught in Isaiah 25 where Paul was pulling from. In the world to come we are not in flesh bodies anymore.
Fact 2: when Jesus comes to gather His Church on that last day, He brings the "asleep" saints with Him, from Heaven. It's because they are already there with Him. At His descent to this earth He also gathers those of His still alive on earth, immediately after they are 'changed'. That is how... those will be "caught up" on His way to Jerusalem on earth. And per Zech.14, His feet will touch down upon the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, and all His elect saints with Him, to begin His future "thousand years" reign over all nations.
Fact 3: on the day of Christ's return, the wicked dead are resurrected also, to their "resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29). Both the "resurrection of life" and a "resurrection of damnation" happens on that day of Christ's 2nd coming.
Fact 4: Revelation 22:14-15 shows the unsaved dwelling outside the holy city where Christ's elect are. That is during the "thousand years" of Rev.20, about the nations of the unsaved. That is the "outer darkness" our Lord Jesus described in The Gospel.
Fact 5: After Jesus returns, the ONLY death remaining is the casting of one's soul with spirit into the future "lake of fire" at God's Great White Throne Judgment. That is also when death and hell are cast into that "lake of fire" and will be no more. Revelation 20 calls this the "second death".
Fact 6: our Lord Jesus taught the idea of one being spiritually 'dead' inside, when He spoke of the blind scribes and Pharisees. That idea goes with His teaching that we must be "born again" per John 3. That is about our spirit inside our flesh being born of The Spirit through faith on The Father through His Son Jesus Christ. This is required to have eternal life, and be part of the "resurrection of life".
Fact 7: because a 1st resurrection unto eternal life is mentioned, it automatically suggests there will be at least one more resurrection unto eternal life. Notice the 1st resurrection of Rev.20 is not talking about the "resurrection of damnation". That's why it is a mistake to assign the 2nd suggested resurrection as a resurrection of other still dead only to a resurrection of death that goes into the lake of fire. Thusly...
Fact 8: the suggested 2nd resurrection is unto eternal life along with those in Christ Jesus. It is for those unsaved during Christ's "thousand years" reign that believe on Him and are then saved.
Fact 9: per Ezekiel 44, Christ's future "thousand years" will be a great time of teaching the peoples the difference between the holy and the profane. The unsaved will stand in judgment during that whole period. Only Christ's elect, the Zadok, which means The Just, will be allowed to approach Him and serve Him at His table.