Assemblies of God 5

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Assemblies of God (5)
A STUDY OF DENOMINATIONS

• (Multiple Resurrections)

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A.Gs End-Time Timeline
As a church, we do not assert opinion beyond
clear statements of Scripture about the details
of what is yet to take place (www.ag.org)
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Second Coming
Invisible Return
Visible Return
WHITE THRONE
FIRE JUDGMENT
X
MARRIAGE
(with saints)
RAPTURE
1000 Yr. REIGN
X
3 ½ yrs. great trib.
SATAN BOUND1000 Yrs.
7 Yr. TRIBULATION
WICKED RAISED JUDGED
DEAD SAINTS RAISED
ARMEGGEDON
SATAN RELEASED
(those born tested)
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Are There Multiple Resurrections?

• A.G. teach multiple resurrections
• one of the righteous in the rapture
• one of the wicked after the 1000 year reign

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Rapture?

• Rapture Resurrection
• Believers who have died before the Rapture will
  be resurrected with incorruptible bodies at the
  Rapture. (ibid., www.ag.org)

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Second Coming

• Post-millennium Resurrection
• The Great White Throne Judgment. After the
  judgment fire physically destroys those deceived
  by Satan at the end of the Millennium, all the
  wicked who have ever lived on the face of the
  earth will be dead. Then will follow the
  resurrection of the wicked dead to stand before
  the austere Judge from whose face the earth and
  the heaven fled away (Revelation 2011). Books
  are opened and the wicked are judged according to
  their works. Then, like Satan, they will be
  consigned to the lake of fire to be tormented day
  and night forever. (ibid., www.ag.org)

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the hour when all are raised
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DAY HOUR

• Do not marvel at this for the hour is coming in
  which all who are in the graves will hear His
  voice and come forththose who have done good,
  to the resurrection of life, and those who have
  done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation
  (Jn. 528, 29, NKJV)
• not hours, days, years, times THE HOUR!
• not some, many, most ALL!
• does an hour last for 1007 years?

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hope resurrection
1
DAY HOUR

• But when Paul perceived that one part were
  Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out
  in the council, Men and brethren, I am a
  Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee concerning the
  hope and resurrection of the dead I am being
  judged! (Acts 236, NKJV)
• as many hopes as there are resurrections (cf.
  Eph. 44)
• not resurrections but resurrection (cf. seeds
  vs. seed Gal. 316)

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a resurrection
1
DAY HOUR

• I have hope in God, which they themselves also
  accept, that there will be a resurrection of the
  dead, both of the just and the unjust (Acts
  2415, NKJV)
• Pauls hope was of a resurrection of the dead
• two kinds of people raised in one single
  resurrectionthe just and unjust
• NOT, one kind raised in two separate resurrections

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the last day
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DAY HOUR

• This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that
  of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but
  should raise it up at the last day (Jn. 639,
  NKJV)
• When shall it be raised?
• ANSWER the last day
• A.G. dont believe the righteous are raised on
  the last day. . .they teach there will be 7 years
  of tribulation that follow plus a 1000 year
  reign!
• 7 years 1000 years 1007 years (367, 555 days!)

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the last day
1
DAY HOUR

• Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise
  again in the resurrection at the last day. (Jn.
  1124, NKJV)
• When shall he rise?
• ANSWER the last day
• Raised in what
• ANSWER the resurrection
• Martha knew more about eschatology than all
  premillennialists do today!
• where do we read of resurrections?

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Attempted Rebuttal. . .

• But the rest of the dead did not live again
  until the thousand years were finished. This is
  the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he
  who has part in the first resurrection. Over 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 (Rev. 205, 6)

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Revelation 205, 6

• doesnt teach any doctrine that contradicts any
  of the other passages we brought forth
• was a symbolic, not bodily resurrection
• the dead lived again symbolically in the Satanic
  insurrection after the 1000 years
• the righteous had resurrected first in a symbolic
  way by their triumph over Roman rule/paganism

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Revelation 205, 6

• DANGER, DANGER, DANGER!
• when you take much of Revelation literal, you
  violate the intent of the book (11)
• when you take much of Revelation literal, you
  create doctrines that violate the doctrine of
  other clear passages
• e.g., resurrection verses resurrections
• e.g., the redeemed must all be men opposed to
  marriage (Rev. 143, 4 violates Heb. 134 1
  Cor. 71-5 1 Tim. 32)

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A.Gs End-Time Timeline
As a church, we do not assert opinion beyond
clear statements of Scripture about the details
of what is yet to take place (www.ag.org)
?
Second Coming
Invisible Return
Visible Return
WHITE THRONE
FIRE JUDGMENT
X
MARRIAGE
(with saints)
RAPTURE
1000 Yr. REIGN
X
3 ½ yrs. great trib.
SATAN BOUND1000 Yrs.
X
X
7 Yr. TRIBULATION
WICKED RAISED JUDGED
DEAD SAINTS RAISED
ARMEGGEDON
SATAN RELEASED
(those born tested)
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Are You Redeemed?

• not with corruptible things
• knowing that you were not redeemed with
  corruptible things, like silver or gold, from
  your aimless conduct received by tradition from
  your fathers (1 Pet. 118, NKJV)
• but with the blood of the Lamb
• but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
  lamb without blemish and without spot (1 Pet.
  119, NKJV)

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Are You Redeemed?

• by obeying the truth
• Since you have purified your souls in obeying
  the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of
  the brethren, love one another fervently with a
  pure heart (1 Pet. 122, NKJV)
• in baptism
• having been born again, not of corruptible seed
  but incorruptible, through the word of God which
  lives and abides forever (1 Pet. 123, NKJV)
• There is also an antitype which now saves
  usbaptism (not the removal of the filth of the
  flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward
  God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
  (1 Pet. 321, NKJV)