The Story-Line of Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect LESSON 7: RESURRECTION, JUDGMENT BEFORE GOD IN HEAVEN

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The Story-Line of Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect LESSON 7 RESURRECTION,
JUDGMENT BEFORE GOD IN HEAVEN

• This lesson shows that after the destruction,
  death, and judgment on earth, Christian
  apocalyptic rhetorolect presents resurrection and
  judgment before God in heaven.
• Only after all of these activities does the book
  of Revelation in the New Testament show God
  creating a new heaven and new earth.
• Lesson 8, the final lesson on the Christian
  Apocalyptic Story-Line, will focus on Gods new
  creation.

• Click for the next slide and a Hebrew Bible
  resource for Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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Resurrection in Daniel 12 in the Hebrew Bible

• Gods resurrection of the dead, after times of
  extreme distress and destruction, begins the
  final events of the end time in apocalyptic
  literature.
• Daniel 12 presents the first clear biblical
  reference to a resurrection, final judgment, and
  afterlife.
• Click to read the presentation of resurrection
  in Daniel 12.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
RESURRECTION FROM THE DUST OF THE EARTH

• Daniel 121 At that time shall Michael stand up,
  the great prince who stands for the children of
  your 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 your people shall be delivered,
  everyone who shall be found written in the book.
• Click for continuation of Daniel 12.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
RESURRECTION FROM THE DUST OF THE EARTH

• Daniel 122 Many of those who sleep in the dust
  of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
  life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  
• 123 Those who are wise shall shine as the
  brightness of the expanse and those who turn
  many to righteousness as the stars forever and
  ever.
• Click for resurrection in Hosea and Isaiah.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect RESURRECTION in Hosea and Isaiah

• Important images and statements related to
  resurrection at the end of time are present also
  in Hosea 62 Isaiah 269.
• Click to read the images of resurrection in
  Hosea and Isaiah.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for
Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect

IMAGES OF RESURRECTION in Hosea and Isaiah

• Hosea 62 After two days he will revive us. On
  the third day he will raise us up, and we will
  live before him.
• 261 In that day, this song will be sung in the
  land of Judah We have a strong city. God
  appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
• Click for an explanation of Ezekiel 37.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
THE IMAGE OF REVIVAL in Ezekiel 37

• Ezekiel 37 presents a famous prophetic account
  of the revival of the dry bones of Israel to
  new life as a nation in Israel.
• The image of revival of Israel in Ezekiel
  becomes a resource for later Christian
  apocalyptic rhetorolect, which envisions
  resurrection at the end of time.
• Click to read the presentation of revival in
  Ezekiel 37.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
THE IMAGE OF REVIVAL in Ezekiel 37

• Ezekiel 374 Again he said to me, Prophesy over
  these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear
  the word of Adonai.
• 375 Thus says the Lord Adonai to these bones
  Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
  and you shall live.
• 376 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up
  flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put
  breath in you, and you shall live and you shall
  know that I am Adonai.
• Click for continuation of Ezekiel 37.

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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
THE IMAGE OF REVIVAL in Ezekiel 37 cont. (1)

• Ezekiel 3722 and I will make them one nation in
  the land, on the mountains of Israel
• and one king shall be king to them all
• and they shall be no more two nations, neither
  shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more
  at all
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A Hebrew Bible Resource for Christian Apocalyptic
Rhetorolect
THE IMAGE OF REVIVAL in Ezekiel 37 cont. (2)

• Ezekiel 3723 neither shall they defile
  themselves any more with their idols, nor with
  their detestable things, nor with any of their
  transgressions
• but I will save them out of all their dwelling
  places, in which they have sinned, and will
  cleanse them
• so shall they be my people, and I will be their
  God.
• Click for an explanation of Christian
  apocalyptic resurrection.

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CHRISTIAN APOCALYPTIC RHETOROLECT PRESENTS
RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AT THE END OF TIME

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect BELIEVERS IN
CHRIST WHO HAVE DIEDWILL BE RAISED FIRST

• 1 Thessalonians 414 For if we believe that Jesus
  died and rose again, even so God will bring with
  him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
• 415 For this we tell you by the word of the
  Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the
  coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those
  who have fallen asleep.
• Click for continuation of 1 Thessalonians 4.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect BELIEVERS IN
CHRIST WHO HAVE DIEDWILL BE RAISED FIRST cont.

• 1 Thessalonians 416 For the Lord himself, with
  a cry of command,
• with the archangels call and with the sound of
  Gods trumpet,
• will descend from heaven,
• and the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be
  caught up in the clouds together with them to
  meet the Lord in the air
• and so we will be with the Lord forever.
• Click for resurrection in Romans 14.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in Romans 14

• Romans 148 For if we live, we live to the Lord.
• Or if we die, we die to the Lord.
• If therefore we live or die, we are the Lords.
• 149 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived
  again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and
  the living.
• Click for resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15

• 1 Corinthians 153 For I delivered to you first
  of all that which I also received
• that Christ died for our sins according to the
  Scriptures,
• 154 that he was buried, that he was raised on
  the third day according to the Scriptures,
• 155 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the
  twelve.
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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15 cont. (1)

• 1 Corinthians 1520 But now Christ has been
  raised from the dead.
• He became the first fruits of those who are
  asleep.
• 1523 But each in his own order Christ the first
  fruits, then those who are Christs, at his
  coming.
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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15 cont. (2)

• 1 Corinthians 1524 Then the end comes, when he
  will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the
  Father when he will have abolished all rule and
  all authority and power.
• 1525 For he must reign until he has put all his
  enemies under his feet.
• 1526 The last enemy that will be abolished is
  death.
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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15 cont. (3)

• 1 Corinthians 1551 Behold, I tell you a mystery.
  We will not all sleep, but we will all be
  changed,
• 1552 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 will be changed.
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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15 cont. (4)

• 1 Corinthians 1553 For this corruptible must put
  on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
  immortality.
• 1554 But when this corruptible will have put on
  incorruption, and this mortal will have put on
  immortality, then what is written will happen
• Death is swallowed up in victory.
• (see Isaiah 257)
• Click for continuation of 1 Corinthians 15.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect RESURRECTION
in 1 Corinthians 15 cont. (5)

• 1 Corinthians 1555 Death, where is your sting?
  Hades, where is your victory?
• 1556 The sting of death is sin, and the power of
  sin is the law.
• 1557 But thanks be to God, who gives us the
  victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• (Read 1 Corinthians 15)
• Click to read about judgment before God in
  heaven in the Hebrew Bible.

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Hebrew Bible ResourceJUDGMENT BEFORE GOD IN
HEAVEN

• The Hebrew Bible presents judgment before God in
  heaven.
• Click to read about judgment before God in
  heaven in Daniel 7.

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Hebrew Bible Resource
JUDGMENT BEFORE GOD IN
HEAVEN in Daniel 7

• Daniel 710 A fiery stream issued and came forth
  from before him
• thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten
  thousand times ten thousand stood before him
• the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
• Click for the use of this Hebrew Bible
  resource in Christian apocalyptic rhetorolect.

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CHRISTIAN APOCALYPTIC RHETOROLECT PRESENTS
JUDGMENT BEFORE GOD IN HEAVEN IN ROMANS AND
REVELATION

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect
JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN in Romans 2

• Romans 25 But according to your hardness and
  unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for
  yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation,
  and of the righteous judgment of God
• 26 who will pay back to everyone according to
  their works
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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect
JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN in Romans 2 cont.

• Romans 27 to those who by patience in well-doing
  seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility,
  eternal life
• 28 but to those who are self-seeking, and dont
  obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be
  wrath and indignation.
• Click for judgment in heaven in Revelation
  20.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect
JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN in Revelation 20

• Revelation 2012 I saw the dead, the great and
  the small, standing before the throne, and they
  opened books.
• Another book was opened, which is the book of
  life.
• The dead were judged out of the things which were
  written in the books, according to their works.
• Click for continuation of Revelation 20.

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Christian Apocalyptic Rhetorolect
JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN in Revelation 20

• Revelation 2013 The sea gave up the dead who
  were in it.
• Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in
  them.
• They were judged, each one according to his
  works.
• Click for a summary of this lesson.

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Good Work!

In this lesson you have learned that The
Christian apocalyptic story-line presents Gods
resurrection of people from death after extended
periods of destruction, death, and turmoil on
earth. After resurrection, people face judgment
before God in heaven. Well done! Please
continue now to Lesson 8 on Gods creation of a
new heaven and a new earth, which is the final
lesson in the Christian Apocalyptic Story-Line.