RESURRECTION
A RESURRECTION PROMISED
Thy dead men 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. (Isa. 26:19)
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave,
I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from
mine eyes. (Hosea 13:14)
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause
you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the
land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when
I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you
up out of your graves, (Ezek. 37:12,13)
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in
the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I
am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (John 11:24,25)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which
all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall
come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush,
when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the
dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. (Luke 20:37,38)
SHOWING
THAT SOME WILL RISE WITH SPIRITUAL BODIES AND SOME WITH
EARTHLY BODIES
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with
what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest
is not quickened, except it die:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that
shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of
some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the
same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another
flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of
the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun,
and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the
stars: for one star differeth from another
star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown
in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural
body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural
body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written,
The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam
was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first
which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward
that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth,
earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the
earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we
have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly. (1 Cor. 15:35-49)
RESURRECTION
OF CHRIST
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did
see corruption. (Acts 2:31)
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first
that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto
the people, and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26:23)
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the Scriptures: (1 Cor.
15:3,4)
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept. (1 Cor. 15:20)
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according
to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the
dead: (Rom. 1:4)
And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (Acts
4:33)
Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that
he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness
with us of his resurrection. (Acts 1:22)
RESURRECTION OF THE CHURCH
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee:
for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the
just. (Luke 14:14)
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable
unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the
resurrection of the dead. (Phil. 3:10,11)
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thess. 4:16)
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (1
Cor. 15:23)
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. (Rev. 20:6)
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
(Rom. 6:5)
THE
GENERAL RESURRECTION
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they
call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing
all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of
the just and unjust. (Acts 24:14,15)
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which
all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall
come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and
the books were opened: and another book was opened, which
is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, according to their
works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and
death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them:
and they were judged every man according to their works.
(Rev. 20:12,13)
