The Resurrection in the Book of Revelations

[GaryAnderson]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

 

[quietthinker]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

God has no problem reassembling the elements.....and yes he will open the graves I Thessalonians 4:13-18 check it out
And yes, it'll be like Jesus' resurrected body

 

[Naomi25]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

Hi! Yes, the bible does give us a few passages we can glean some info from…this one is the most helpful I find.

1 Corinthians 15:22-23
[22] For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. [23] But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:35-49
[35] But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” [36] You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. [37] And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. [38] But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. [39] For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. [40] There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. [41] There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
[42] So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. [43] It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. [44] It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. [45] Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. [46] But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. [47] The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. [48] As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. [49] Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:50-55
[50] I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. [51] Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. [53] For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. [54] When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
[55] “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”


The bible here tells us that AT Christ’s second coming, we too shall receive the sort of body he did at his resurrection…he the ‘first fruits’.
Paul then goes on to paint a picture of the sort of body it is….a spiritual, heavenly body. ‘Sown in dishonour…sown natural…sown in weakness’. Instead we shall be ‘raised in glory…in power…in a spiritual body’.
Paul says that it will happen ‘in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet’. 1 Thess 4:16 tell us that the ‘dead will rise first and then we who are alive will also meet the Lord in the air’. It jives with what is said above.

As for your specific questions: God formed the first man out of the dust of the ground…if indeed our new resurrected bodies are formed out of the same ‘stuff’ as our old ones, I don’t think God will find cremated bodies a problem.
As for where or how the ‘dead in graves’ shall rise. Well…we could consider this verse:

Matthew 27:51-53
[51] And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. [52] The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, [53] and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

I don’t think these ‘saints’ of old were raised into resurrection bodies, I think their task was merely to proclaim the risen Lord. However, we see here that in order to do that “the tombs were opened”. People literally came out of their graves. Biblical zombies if you will! Except, I imagine they looked whole, rather than dead.

I think we must remember that the God who spoke the cosmos into being with his mere voice, is more than up to the challenge of creating new, spiritual bodies from those of us who are dead, dismembered or even lost to the depths of the seas.

 

[Oseas]

Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

THE WORD IS GOD; THE WORD IS GOD

Isaiah 26:v.19
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Daniel 12:v.1-3
12 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.


1 Thessalonians 4:v.16
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:


Ezekiel 37:v.1-14
1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

THE WORD IS GOD, understand?

 

[Ronald David Bruno]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

1 Cor. 15 is the definitve ressurection chapter. In there you will notice that whatever is buried and dies, the natural body, whether whole or in part (cremated), eventually turns to dust. From dust to dust. A person's physical appearance, his design is in his DNA and so one speck of dust from that is all that is needed to recreate that likeness; but the new you will be without flaws. ( A kernal of you is only needed, which is your DNA). Even if that was totally destroyed, (which I doubt), God knows who you are and how He made you.
If you were ugly, it was probably due to genetic flaws over generations. But everyone will possess beauty, without flaws. You will be a perfect you similar to a young adult. If you were born blind, deaf, retarded, grossly disabled, those defects will not be reproduced. This all of course is speaking of what your appearance will be like.
Your soul is invisible. It is composed of your mind, will emotions, personality and character. Your soul was infected with sin. It is where sin dwells and so not only was your physical body considered to be your flesh, but so was your soul.
Here is the part people get confused about. Your spirit is the new you, void of sin and is not the same as the soul, only partially. Scripture tells us that "the Word of God is sharper than as two-edged sword ... able to separate/divide soul and spirit." If they can be separated, then they are not the same. All that is good about you in your soul is in essence filtered into your spirit, leaving the rest behind at death or at the rapture, whichever comes first. Your spiritual compartment/Temple is pure. It has to be, it is where God dwells - the Most Holy Place in YOU. Our spiritual design is likened to the OT temple where God dwelled.
So your resurrected body (which will be a spiritual, multi dimensional body, able to appear in physical form as Jesus did and disappear into the spiritual realm, ascend into the heavens, etc.) will look somewhat like you, but perfected and your mind, will, emotions, personality, character will also be perfected, pure in nature.

 

[farouk]

I think we must remember that the God who spoke the cosmos into being with his mere voice, is more than up to the challenge of creating new, spiritual bodies from those of us who are dead, dismembered or even lost to the depths of the seas.

@Naomi25 Good point indeed!

 

[Oseas]

As for your specific questions: God formed the first man out of the dust of the ground…if indeed our new resurrected bodies are formed out of the same ‘stuff’ as our old ones, I don’t think God will find cremated bodies a problem.
As for where or how the ‘dead in graves’ shall rise. Well…we could consider this verse:

Matthew 27:51-53
[51] And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. [52] The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, [53] and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

I don’t think these ‘saints’ of old were raised into resurrection bodies, I think their task was merely to proclaim the risen Lord. However, we see here that in order to do that “the tombs were opened”. People literally came out of their graves. Biblical zombies if you will! Except, I imagine they looked whole, rather than dead.

I think we must remember that the God who spoke the cosmos into being with his mere voice, is more than up to the challenge of creating new, spiritual bodies from those of us who are dead, dismembered or even lost to the depths of the seas.

@Naomi25 Good point indeed!

Revelation 20:v.7 to 15

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth(north, south, East, West), Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle (this will be the final battle against Gog and Magog, and their followers): the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

10 And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before GOD; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were Judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

 

[Naomi25]

Revelation 20:v.7 to 15

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth(north, south, East, West), Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle (this will be the final battle against Gog and Magog, and their followers): the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

10 And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before GOD; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were Judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Are you trying to make a point with these verses, friend? If you are, it might be best to just state it outright…
As far as I can see, this passage, while informative, is about the judgment of the dead, rather than the specifics of the resurrection we may expect ahead of us. I know it all helps to fill in the picture somewhat, but without your specific point, it becomes hard to know which part of the picture you are hoping to focus in on here…

 

[farouk]

Are you trying to make a point with these verses, friend? If you are, it might be best to just state it outright…
As far as I can see, this passage, while informative, is about the judgment of the dead, rather than the specifics of the resurrection we may expect ahead of us. I know it all helps to fill in the picture somewhat, but without your specific point, it becomes hard to know which part of the picture you are hoping to focus in on here…

@Naomi25 Good to know the direction in which comments are aimed...

 

[Truth7t7]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

I Personally Believe The Glory Of The Believers Works On Earth, Will Be Apparent In Their Glorified Body, As The Stars Differeth From One Another, God Gives This Glorified Body

1 Corinthians 15:38-44KJV
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible, And We Shall Be Changed

As scripture clearly teaches below in 1 Corinthinas 15:23-24 , when Jesus Christ returns then comes (The End)

(Then Cometh The End)

(Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory)

1 Corinthians 15:21-26 & 51-54KJV
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

 

[Bob Estey]

Hello everyone. I’m new here and I have a specific question about this topic.
In scripture as some of you are aware, we will have a glorified body when Jesus returns. Similar (perhaps) to the body that Jesus showed to his disciples.
My question is : Does anyone know HOW this happens? Does the Bible mentions any details basically?

For example: Some people might have been cremated. How will they be resurrected?
Another example; People who are buried. How will they be raised? Will the ground open up?

Thank you.

I think you will find some symbolism in the book of Revelation. As we grow in our spiritual lives and repent of our sin, we become deserving of glory. That's the short answer. I think that is the long answer, also.

 

[Desire Of All Nations]

In regards to your first question as to how a Christian will receive a glorified body, Paul answers that in Rom. 8:

"But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you". - Rom. 8:11

A true Christian is begotten by God's Spirit(and not "born again" as evangelicals erroneously teach) upon conversion in the same way a human child is begotten by a human male through sexual intercourse with a human female. A Christian grows to spiritual maturity like a human fetus does to the point where he/she is ready for the final part of the birth process. When Christ returns, the Holy Spirit within a Christian will then turn their physical bodies into a spirit body like Christ's:

"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." - 1 Cor. 15:51-53

In regards to your question about how a cremated person will be resurrected, the answer is fairly simple: God only needs that person's spirit and dust to reform the person as they were in their physical lives. A person's spirit stores everything that makes somebody who they are, all the way down to their physical appearance, their memories, and whatever physical knowledge they may have accumulated over the course of their natural life. After death, this spirit returns to God to wait for their appointed time to be resurrected:

"Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?" - Eccl. 3:21

Contrary to what is popularly taught by "Christianity", it is not a soul that goes upward to God after death, but elaborating on that is for a different time.