Resurrection of the Dead

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Resurrection of the Dead
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This is one of the MOST IMPORTANT subjects in the
Bible.

• It is one of the four "major" doctrines mentioned
  in

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HEB. 61-3

• Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine
  of Christ let us go on unto perfection ... Of
  the doctrine ... of RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

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• We say "MAJOR" because learning WHO will
  resurrect and WHEN that resurrection will take
  place will make a MAJOR change in your life.
• There are TWO RESURRECTIONS FOR THE SAINTS OF
  GOD.
• Made possible by Jesus death and resurrection...

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Lets look at his life,death,resurrection

• When Jesus died on the LITERAL cross. The Prophet
  Isaiah tells us that NOT ONLY did His BODY die
  but also His SOUL

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ISA. 5310-12 ...

• it pleased the LORD to bruise him ... when thou
  shalt make his SOUL an offering for sin ...
  because he hath poured out his SOUL unto DEATH

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The SOUL of a person IS that person

• the body is only a temporary house for the soul.

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Why did the SOUL of Jesus have to die?

• The answer lies in the next two scriptures

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EZK. 18420 ... the SOUL that sinneth it shall
DIE. ...

• Even though Jesus did not personally sin His
  SOUL had to die in place of your soul and mine
  in order to win life for us ...

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2 COR. 521

• For he hath MADE HIM TO BE SIN for us who KNEW
  no sin

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• Thus the SOUL of Jesus had to DIE on the LITERAL
  cross. Jesus Himself spoke of this fact when He
  was warned of Herod's intention to kill Him

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LK. 1331-33 ...

• Nevertheless I must walk to day and to morrow
  and the day following for it cannot be that A
  PROPHET PERISH out of Jerusalem.

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• The word "PERISH" means "TO DIE." Jesus was sent
  by His Father to preach to Jerusalem. So as a
  result of His preaching that city would have to
  either REPENT or rise up and KILL Him.

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THEY CHOSE DEATH

• both for Him and for themselves!
• Matt 2725
• 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His
  blood be on us, and on our children.
• (KJV)

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• Jesus also repeated this truth to His disciples
  in the closing hours of His human life ...

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MT. 2636-38 ...

• My SOUL is exceeding sorrowful EVEN UNTO DEATH
  tarry ye here and watch with me.

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• The understanding that Jesus' SOUL was to die
  NOT just His body throws a different light on
  His death

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• For years it has been taught that on the
  cross the SOUL of Jesus departed to PREACH TO
  THE SOULS OF UNREPENTANT DEAD PEOPLE. The
  scripture used to make this point was ...

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1 PT. 318-20

• For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the
  just for the unjust ... BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE
  FLESH BUT QUICKENED BY THE SPIRIT By which also
  he went and PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON

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• It is now understood that.
• This scripture was FULFILLED DURING the ministry
  of Jesus NOT after His death on the cross! The
  prophet Isaiah described the purpose of the
  ministry of Jesus during the 3-1/2 years that He
  preached on this earth. We read in ...

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ISA. 426-7

• ...To open the blind eyes to bring out the
  PRISONERS from the PRISON and them that sit in
  DARKNESS out of the PRISON HOUSE.
• Also in ...

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ISA. 611

• The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me ... to
  proclaim LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES and the opening
  of the PRISON to them that are bound.

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• We see in these scriptures that one of the
  purposes of Jesus' ministry was to FREE people
  from PRISON but there is NO evidence that He
  EVER EVEN VISITED a natural prison during His
  ministry!
• This next scripture shows that Jesus came to
  free people from religious prisons.

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LK. 416-21

• ... as his custom was (Jesus) went into the
  SYNAGOGUE on the sabbath day and stood up for to
  read ... The Spirit of the Lord is upon me ... to
  preach deliverance to the CAPTIVES ... THIS DAY
  is this scripture FULFILLED in your ears.

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Jesus read from Isa. 611

• where it was prophesied that He would OPEN THE
  PRISON and FREE THE CAPTIVES and said it was
  FULFILLED THAT DAY as He read IN the SYNAGOGUE!

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• So it is clear that the PRISON HOUSES were the
  religious sects of Israel and the natural Jews
  were being held CAPTIVE by the traditions of men
  taught to them by their elders.

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• Also understand that the SPIRITS IN PRISON to
  whom Jesus preached were the people in Israel who
  were ALIVE NATURALLY but DEAD SPIRITUALLY.
• Consider this next scripture

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Matt 819-22

• 19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him,
  Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou
  goest...
• 21 And another of his disciples said unto him,
  Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
• 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let
  the dead bury their dead.
• (KJV)

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• These were the "DEAD" to whom Jesus preached to.
• NOT the natural dead in the natural graveyard!
  He makes this very clear in ...

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JN. 524-25

• ... The hour is coming and NOW IS when the
  DEAD shall HEAR the voice of the Son of God and
  ... shall LIVE.

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• Israel was DEAD IN SIN but through the words of
  Jesus they would have an opportunity to COME
  ALIVE to righteousness!

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The old testament saints

• ...were righteous men and women that had a
  knowledge of a NATURAL resurrection for we see
  this in ...

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HEB. 1122

• By FAITH Joseph when he died made mention of
  the departing of the children of Israel and gave
  commandment concerning his BONES.

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Why did Joseph ask this?

• He knew that God would not visit Egypt. He
  believed that God would visit Canaan.
• His request shows us that there is no
  resurrection in Egypt, only in Canaan.
• (Our religious ways and ideas will not get us
  into heaven, we must leave them behind)

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Note

• the Old Testament saints who lived up to as much
  of the law of Moses as was possible died without
  the baptism of the Holy Ghost ....

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HEB. 1135-40

• ... these all having obtained a good report
  through faith RECEIVED NOT THE PROMISE God
  having provided some BETTER thing for us that
  they without us should not be MADE PERFECT.

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• The saints of the Old Testament looked forward to
  a NATURAL resurrection. They died in faith
  believing that God would raise them up. Job spoke
  of this time ...

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JOB 1925-27

• For I know that my REDEEMER liveth and that he
  shall stand at the LATTER DAY upon the earth And
  though after my skin worms destroy this body yet
  IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD ...

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• Job was speaking of his OWN destiny but we see
  that Isaiah reached out and also included those
  of the righteous line of the Old Testament
  dispensation for he said ...

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ISA. 2619

• Thy dead men (Israel) 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.

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• Jesus went even further and spoke of certain
  prophets who would DEFINITELY come up in that
  number ...

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MT. 811-12

• ... many shall come from the east and west and
  shall sit down with ABRAHAM and ISAAC and
  JACOB in the kingdom of heaven. ...

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• Jesus said they would resurrect from natural
  death to natural life, so
• they might obtain that better thing/ better
  resurrection...

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Heb 1135

• again and others were tortured, not accepting
  deliverance that they might obtain a better
  resurrection
• (KJV)
• This is why Jesus said what He did to Martha
  when she replied bitterly ...

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JN. 1120-26

• ... I know that he (Lazarus) shall rise again in
  the resurrection at the LAST DAY. Jesus said unto
  her I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE ...
  whosoever liveth and believeth in me SHALL NEVER
  DIE. ...

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• Jesus was telling Martha the LAST DAYS HAD
  ARRIVED and that HE had the power to not only
  raise the NATURAL dead but those who were
  SPIRITUALLY dead as well!
• This was verified after his crucifixion and
  resurrection when the saints of the Old
  Testament arose from the natural grave as we see
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MT. 2750-53

• ... And the graves were opened and many bodies
  of the saints which slept AROSE And came OUT OF
  THE GRAVES after his resurrection and went into
  the holy city and appeared unto many.

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WHY did they have to resurrect naturally?

• So they could receive the baptism of the Holy
  Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
• Acts 238

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• The SPIRITUAL resurrection of those Old Testament
  saints would begin at that point (when they
  received the Holy Ghost). Then they had to sit
  down under the five-fold ministry of the Early
  Rain Church and be MADE PERFECT.

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• By receiving the Holy Ghost baptism and the truth
  of God's word is it possible to attain the FIRST
  RESURRECTION.

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What IS the first resurrection?

• Jesus talked of it like this...
• Matt 2230
• 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry,
  nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels
  of God in heaven.
• (KJV)

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More detailed ...

• It is a SPIRITUAL resurrection which prepares
  144000 people to be the Bride of Jesus Christ.
  This resurrection BEGINS when we receive the Holy
  Ghost baptism and will be COMPLETED when we
  become PERFECT(mature) and qualify for the Bride.
  John speaks of it in this way ...

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REV. 204-6

• ... 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.
• Paul the apostle preached this as the GOAL of his
  life ...

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PHIL. 310-14

• ... Not as though I had already attained either
  were already perfect but ... I PRESS toward the
  MARK for the PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING of God in
  Christ Jesus.
• And later we see that he REACHED it ...

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2 TIM. 46-8

• For I am NOW READY to be offered ... Henceforth
  there is laid up for me a CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
  ...

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This CROWN was another name for a SPIRITUAL BODY

• which is the REWARD for those attaining the
  Bride. This is brought out in different words in
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REV. 69-11

• ... I saw under the altar the souls of them that
  were slain for the word of God ... And WHITE
  ROBES were given unto ... them and it was said
  ... rest yet for a little season until their
  fellowservants also and their brethren that
  should be killed as they were should be
  fulfilled.

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• By this scripture and others we understand that
  the Bride will be made up of the overcomers out
  of the Early Church as well as the Latter Rain
  Church. The time of this Latter Church is just
  ahead of us.

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• After the Latter Church has been in order for
  7-1/2 years Jesus will come for the remainder of
  His Bride. He will NOT I repeat WILL NOT raise
  them up from the NATURAL graveyard! Religion has
  always taught this point but that is NOT what
  Paul is saying in ...

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1 THES. 413-18

• ... Them also which SLEEP IN JESUS will God
  bring with him ... For the Lord himself shall
  descend from heaven ... and the DEAD IN CHRIST
  shall rise first ...

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• NO natural graveyards will open when Jesus comes
  back for the remainder of His Bride! The DEAD IN
  CHRIST and the ASLEEP IN JESUS are ONE AND THE
  SAME PEOPLE.

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• They are PERFECT OVERCOMERS RESTING under the
  golden altar of Rev. 69-11. They are NOT asleep
  in the GRAVE but resting IN JESUS alive
  forevermore! They RISE from RESTING to the POWER
  OF RULING as a part of the Bride of Jesus Christ.

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• Now someone may ask What if I die before I reach
  the Bride of Christ? What will happen to me? Paul
  speaks of TWO resurrections with TWO rewards
  the Bride will have SPIRITUAL bodies which will
  not die. He gave an example of this in ...

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1 COR. 1534-40

• ... There are also CELESTIAL BODIES and BODIES
  TERRESTRIAL but the glory of the celestial is
  ONE and the glory of the terrestrial is ANOTHER.

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• In a little over a thousand years from right now
  there will be a NATURAL RESURRECTION which will
  lead to ETERNAL LIFE for some as John said ...

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REV. 205

• But the rest of the DEAD lived not again UNTIL
  the THOUSAND YEARS were FINISHED. ...

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Let us make this point clear

• ONLY those who MERIT a resurrection will come up
  at that time. NO UNGODLY people will resurrect
  ONLY those who HAVE had an EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS
  and have NOT been eternally judged. We can see a
  PICTURE of this in ...

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JN. 528-29

• ... for the hour is coming in the which all
  that are in the graves shall hear his voice And
  shall come forth ... (some) unto the
  RESURRECTION OF LIFE and ... (some) unto the
  resurrection of DAMNATION.

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This is shown in greater detail in

• REV. 2011-15 And I saw a great white throne ...
  And I saw the DEAD small and great STAND BEFORE
  GOD ...

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This "GREAT WHITE THRONE

• is 144000 PERFECT JEWS (Rev. 71-8) judging
  righteously on the earth.

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In conclusion

• let me say a few things about the BOOKS
  mentioned in the Bible.

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Depending on the setting -

• generally speaking the Lamb's Book of Life is a
  symbolic book representing the Bride of Christ
  whereas the Book of Life is a symbolic book which
  shows the overcomers for the new earth.

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REV. 2015

• And whosoever was not found written in the BOOK
  OF LIFE was cast into the lake of fire.

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REV. 138

• And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship
  him (the Beast) whose names are NOT written in
  the BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB slain from the
  foundation of the world.

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REV. 2127

• And there shall in no wise enter into (that
  city) any thing that defileth ... but they which
  are written in the LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.

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Shalom...
Great peace have they which love thy law
and nothing shall offend them. Ps 119165
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Scriptures in todays Bible Study on
Resurrections Heb 61-3 Scriptures Regarding the
soul - Isa 5310-12 Ezek 184,20 2Cor 521 Lu
1331-33 Mt 2636-38 Jesus ministry and the
spiritually dead 1Pt 318-20 Isa 426,7 Isa
611 Lu 416-21 John 524,25 What happened to the
Old testament saints? Heb 1122 Heb 1135-40 Job
1925-27 Isa 2619 Mt 811-12 John 1120-26 Mt
2750-53 The Baptism of the Holy Ghost- the
beginning of our 1st res. Rev 204-6 Phil
310-14 2Tim 46-8 1st Resurrection reward - Rev
69-11 1Thess 413-18 2 resurrections 2
rewards- 1Cor 1534-40 Rev 205 John 528,29 Fate
of those who do not overcome- Rev
2011-15 Conclusion 2 books for 2 different
people- Book of life Lambs book of life -
Rev 2015 book of life - Rev 138 (Book of
Life of the Lamb Lambs book of Life) Rev
2127 Lambs book of Life -