This is the one and only way any of the dead gain eternal life.
The resurrection of the righteous will take place at the second coming, at
the beginning of the millenium -- and, as covered eariler, the resurrection of
the wicked shall take place at the END of the millenniem.
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Resurrection Righteous Review Resurrection
of the Righteous The Records To See of the Wicked
That They Truely
Wicked Killed Are Fair And Just Wicked Judged,
( Satan Bound By Circumstance ) Eyes Opened,
And Destroyed
Chapter 37 of Ezekiel tells of how God can raise up and put breath (life)
into dead bones, but it mentions nothing about those people "returning from
heaven" to inhabit those bodied. No, those beings, "all Israel" [verse 11],
are dead, totally lifeless.
And "lifeless" people will only have life again after their resurrection.
1 COR 15:34-44 refers to man's body as "seed," "plated in death," to come up
GLORIFIED -- "this mortal must put on immortality." [verse 53] Man is mortal
until his resurrection.
God has every human being's life "on file" in heaven. He has your
chromosomes and DNA record, just as he knows the numbers of hairs on your head.
And when it comes to your resurrection God will have no trouble instantaneously
bringing every dead person back to life. Either to their glory or to their
damnation.
The body you currently have will not be your glorified body. A new body,
perfect in construction, based on your untainted DNA pattern, untouched by
sickness or disease, will be created. And placed into it will be your mind and
character. So in effect, you are exactly the same person as you are, but with
all your flaws and earthly problems removed.
...but the dead wait in their graves for that magnificent occasion -- knowing
nothing, seeing nothing, thinking nothing. Sounds like Shultz on Hogan's
Heros, huh.
Note that only a few have been granted an early resurrection; Moses (Jude 9),
and those mentioned in Matt 27:52. Neat!
Mankind has a million questions and a million anxieties about "dying." Never
has anything more terrible been visted upon the human race -- man's mind and
psyche has reeled under the burden of this phenomenon.
Generation after generation of men and woman have been born, lived their
lives, grown old and ill, and then died. The grave is always there (along with
taxes), waiting taunting man. Families have had to endure an unending series
of heart-rending separations from loved ones, as each of us reaches out time of
death. ...decay ...decomposition ...death. It has been this anxiety, this
fear, this terror of dying that has driven man to search out "answers" to
understand death.
And how do they do that? Unfortunately, many peolpe ahve turned to
SPIRITUALISM to alleviate their fears about the mystery of death. Good
going, that'll really set 'em straight. Not! ..here's why