THE SECOND RESURRECTION

Yesterday's blog was from the Middletown Bible Church's teaching on the First Resurrection.  In it, we find that the First Resurrection was not a single event, but that it began with Jesus Christ's Resurrection, and will be completed when the last believer is raised from the dead.
 
       *   Christ is first (1 Corinthians 15:23).
       *   The "dead in Christ" (members of the Church who have died) will be raised up at the time of the rapture (1 Th. 4:16 and 1 Cor. 15:52). 
       *   Those Christians who are living on earth at the time of the rapture will also "be changed" and receive new bodies (see 1 Cor. 15:51-52).  
      *   Old Testament believers will be raised up after the time of tribulation (about seven years after the rapture) according to Daniel 12:1-2. Believers who die during the tribulation will also be raised up at this time according to Revelation 20:4. 
      *   We must assume that those who are saved during the 1000 year kingdom will receive new bodies at the end of the Kingdom, although there is no verse that specifically mentions this.

Today's blog is also from Middletown Bible Church's teaching on the Second Resurrection.  It will include ALL unsaved people, and they will be part of the Resurrection of Damnation (or judgment), according to John 5:29, which says:  "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."

Those who take part in the Second Resurrection will ALL be raised at the same time. They will ALL be raised to stand before the GREAT WHITE THRONE and before the HOLY GOD who sits upon it.  Rev. 20:11-15 says:

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.  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.  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."