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When would this "First" resurrection take place?
Acts 2:34-35
34 For David did not ascend to the heavens, but he himself says,
‘Jehovah said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand
35 until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.”'
Here we can see that some time would pass before Jesus would become the king.
Jesus disciples were wondering when Jesus would begin to rule in the heavens.
Matthew:24:3-8,12
3 While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately,
saying: “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence
and of the conclusion of the system of things?”
4 In answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads you,
5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.
6 You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not alarmed,
for these things must take place, but the end is not yet.
7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and
there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another.
8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
12 On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!
Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you,
having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”
Lets look at the timing of when Jesus would begin to rule God's Kingdom in heaven
and how it points to when the conclusion of satan's rule over the earth would begin.
Revelation 12:7-12
7 And war broke out in heaven:
Mi'cha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled
8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven.
9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent,
the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;
he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
10 I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and
the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down,
who accuses them day and night before our God!
11 And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word
of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death.
12 On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!
Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you,
having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”
When Jesus enemies were placed at his feet,
God's Kingdom was established in the heavens.
Therefore the first resurrection must have occurred in heaven at this time.
it is very evident that we are living in the conclusion of the system of things.
We can see by world events taking place and in the attitudes of people.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
3 But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,
3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers,
without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness,
4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,
5 having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.
The only people that knew this were a group of bible students in Pennsylvania.
This group determined by studying the bible prophecy that this war would begin in 1914.
This group wrote about this date about 30 years in advance of the heavenly war.
Since 1914 these scriptures clearly show that we are living in the last days.
Since the bible refers to our days as "the last days" and "a short period of time".
is clear that very soon God will bring about the end of satan's rule over the world.
Since there was a first resurrection, there must be a second resurrection
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