What is the 2nd resurrection after the 1000 year Millennium

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Hobie

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Daniel 12:2
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.

Daniel 12:2 lays out the two different fates facing mankind at the end: “Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Everyone will be raised from the dead, but not everyone will share the same destiny. Scripture reveals the separate resurrections for the saints and the wicked, the just and the unjust.

Revelation 20:4-6 shows us the “first resurrection” and identifies those involved as “blessed and holy.” The second death at the lake of fire, has no power over these individuals. The first resurrection, then, is the raising of all the saints in the grave. It corresponds with Jesus’ teaching of the “resurrection of the just” in Luke 14:14..
Luke 14:14
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

And of Christ saying there will be the “resurrection of life” in John 5:29...
John 5:29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

The apostle Paul also spoke of these two resurrections when he said, "there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust" in Acts 24:15.
Acts 24:15
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Thus both Jesus Christ and Paul spoke of two resurrections, the first being the resurrection of life for the just, and the second being the resurrection of damnation for the unjust. So we know what the first resurrection is about as Christ Himself shows as the “firstfruits,” of those that slept in the grave and will be at the resurrection of all who believe in Him.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

So Christ the first fruits represented the great spiritual harvest to be gathered for the kingdom of God. His resurrection is the type and pledge of the resurrection of all the righteous dead. At His second coming all the saints in the grave shall hear His voice, and shall come forth to eternal life in the heavenly kingdom. We see there will be the resurrection of “the dead in Christ” at the Second coming
1 Thessalonians 4:16
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

This corresponds with what we see in Revelation 20 in which the saints will be raised at the first resurrection. Take a careful look and it becomes clear...

Revelation 20 King James Version (KJV)
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: 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.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

A careful reading of Revelation 20 verses 4-6 reveal that the first resurrection takes place at the beginning of the 1000 years, the other at the end. It says says, "Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on 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" . Here is the first resurrection at the beginning of the 1000 years which is a good and blessed resurrection of the saints at the Second Coming. Those in it need not fear the second death. And then we have, "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years where finished".
 

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We see what happens next...

Revelation 20 King James Version (KJV)
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: 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.

So the event which divides the first and second resurrections is the 1000 years the saints look over the books in heaven. The righteous saints are raised to reign “with Christ a thousand years” , but the “rest of the dead [that is, the wicked] lived not again until the thousand years were finished”

Revelation 20:12-13 identifies those comprising the second resurrection as the wicked judged by God and this judgment gone over by the saints in heaven during the 1000 years, prior to the wicked being cast into the lake of fire. The second resurrection, then, is the raising of wicked; the second resurrection is connected to the second death. It corresponds with Jesus’ teaching of the “resurrection of damnation” (John 5:29).
Which we also see when Paul said this would be a resurrection of "the unjust," (Acts 24:15)

Those in the second resurrection will be deceived by Satan, will be gathered against God's City, will stand before the final great white throne judgment, will be judged by their works, will be cast into the lake of fire, and will suffer the second death .

We see in Revelation 20:2 that Satan was bound during the thousand years, as the wicked have been struck down at the Second Coming and are dead so their is no one for Satan to temp, but this changes after the 1000 years...
Revelation 20:7-8
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, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

So we see the wicked dead are resurrected after the 1000 years ended and Satan can now go about with his deceptions. They are now bound to the second death in which they will perish as they are consumed in the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

The saints have the resurrection of life, "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection". on which "the second death hath no power". And the wicked the second resurrection, the "resurrection of damnation" or as Daniel says of, "shame and everlasting contempt" in which those not found "in the book of life" are cast into the lake of fire.
 

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"Second death" doesn't mean 'cease to exist'. If that's what you're implying.