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Question I received:
"I was looking through your blog for answers on the order of resurrection in the new Kingdom. I could not find what I'm looking for. Can you explain when us on earth who die, when do they get resurrected. I have been dwelling on this the past few days and can't find the answer."
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My reply:
First, you ask about when the resurrection takes place. The word resurrection means "stand again". This is not referring to a physical standing. Adam and Eve FELL into sin. They could no longer STAND before God as faithful when being examined for judgment.
As a result, no one born to Adam and Eve are born standing in judgment. We are all under sin and a fallen spiritual state... a spiritual death, ending in physical death.
The way out of this, to be able to "stand again" as Adam and Eve originally were before they sinned. We need a way to stand again, or to be resurrected. That standing again, or resurrection, would mean that we could be justified and forgiven for our birth under Adam, sin, and death. We could stand when being examined for judgment.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. When he becomes our new father, we stand again, because Jesus becomes our source of life instead of Adam. Our sins are then forgiven and the teaching of Jesus guides us into righteousness so that we no longer are practicing sin. When we learn righteousness, we stand again in judgment. We are resurrected.
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Then you ask about when the resurrection happens.
I know that you mean a physical return to life, but the real, spiritual resurrection must happen while we are still physically alive, during this lifetime. Once we come to life by being born again by spirit, we are resurrected, as long as we remain standing once we have been resurrected. If we are spiritually resurrected in this way, even though we physically die, we have already been judged as standing and living to God.
Revelation chapter 20 does address the topic of timing of resurrection, but again, it is referring to a spiritual resurrection. Since God and Jesus both refer to the timing of resurrection as being the one that takes place spiritually (while we are yet alive physically), then this is the direction that we also must turn our perspective and attention to.
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Here are some scriptures about that:
Ps.1:5; Eph.6:13; 1Cor.16:13; 15:1,12,21,35,42; 2Cor.5:17; Eph.4:22-23,24; Col.3:10; Rev.21:5; Rom.8:13; 1Pet.3:18; Phil.1:27; Gal.5:1; Luke 21:36; John 3:18; 11:25-26; 2Cor.5:10; Rev.20:4,5,6; Matt.5:2-3,4-5,6-7,8-9,10-11,12; Isa.42:3; Matt.12:20
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The new, spiritual creation is patterned after the original, physical creation. The way to spiritual life (resurrection) is patterned after the original way to physical life. That physical way to life was the breath of life being instilled into Adam. That physical life was maintained through eating fruit from the trees in the garden of Eden.
Please consider from the 4 Bible verses below, how life is sustained
within the new creation.
Gen.1:11,12; Rev.22:1,2; Luke 6:43,44,45; 8:11-12,13-14,15
Jesus provides the seed of the word of God (John 12:48-49; 1:14) as do those whom Jesus sends forth (John 20:21-22; Matt.10:20; Mal.2:7). That seed must be held on to and cultivated in the heart, and it's maturity is proven by the fruit / teaching that results. If it is from Christ, it will bear the same seed in it... the word of God.
There is more to learn from the original physical creation, about how one initially accesses spiritual resurrection.
We learn at Gen.2:7, that Adam came to life because God instilled within Adam, breath. That breath was God's spirit (John 20:21-22) and is the essence of life, without which we are dead (Gen.25:8; Luke 23:46). To stand again (to be resurrected), we need God's breath. We need His spirit.
Jesus told us where to get spirit. He said;
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." (John 6:63).
Our resurrection and life (John 11:25) depend upon the teaching of Jesus.
After his ascension into heaven, his words would be extended through his representatives, his bride members in covenant with him (2Cor.5:20-21; 4:5; Matt.28:20; Acts 1:8).
This is why Rev.22:17 depicts the bride as offering living water.
She offers the opportunity to stand again in Christ.
He and his teaching of divine truth are the source of the breath of life, God's spirit, by which we live, both now and forever.
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So we are resurrected... living in God's eyes, standing in judgment, during our lifetime, if we are born again of spirit through Christ. That standing is given to those who are generated by the spirit of Jesus, meaning, they imitate his love. Jesus makes this decision and is merciful to those who have shown mercy (Matt.5:7). Then we belong to the New Creation (2Cor.5:17; Eph.4:22,23,24).
When God's Kingdom comes, then those who are dead physically, awaken from physical death. Those spiritually living in God's eyes, and those spiritually dead in His eyes, will be consigned to God's judgment, through Christ. This decision is based upon our lifetime deeds.
Those who found favor with God and are considered spiritually alive by Him (standing in His judgment - Eph.6:13) and bearing the seed and traits of their father Christ (Isa.9:6), will live and receive the kingdom.
Rev.20:1-2; 2Cor.2:11; Luke 10:19; Rev.20:4; 1Cor.6:1-2,3-4; Jude 1:6; Rev.6:9-10,11; Rom.6:5; 1Pet.3:18; Col.3:3; 2Tim.2:11-12; Eph.2:6; Rev.20:6,5; John 5:24; Rev.20:13; 14:13; 6:9-10,11; 19:8; Matt.25:31-32,33-34,35-36,37-38,39-40,41; Rev.20:10,15; 13:8; John 11:23-24,25-26; Luke 20:37-38
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