Reference: Resurrection
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(See JESUS; LAW.) His resurrection is the earnest or "firstfruits" of ours. His life is ours by vital union with Him, and because He lives we shall live also (1Co 15:23; Joh 14:19). Christ from Ex 3:6,16 proves the resurrection and charges the Sadducees with ignorance of Scripture and of God's "power" (Mr 12:24) as the root of their "error." God said, "I AM the God of Abraham" when Abraham was dead; but God is the God of the living, Abraham must therefore live again and already lives in God's sure purpose, not a disembodied spirit, which would be no restoration of man in his integrity, but as heir of an abiding city suited to man with perfect body, soul, and spirit (1Th 5:23; Heb 11:8-16). (See SADDUCEES.) God promised "to thee will I give this land," not merely to thy posterity. This can only be fulfilled by Abraham rising and, in integrity of parts, inheriting the antitypical Canaan. Disembodied spirits require a body if they are to exercise the functions of life. Abraham's soul now receives blessings from God, but will only "live unto God" when he receives again the body.
Rabbi Simai argues on Ex 6:3-4, "it is not, said, to give you, but to give them, whereby the resurrection of the dead appeareth out of the law." So Manasseh ben Israel, "God said to Abraham, I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger; but Abraham did not possess that land; wherefore it is of necessity that they should be raised up to enjoy the good promises, else God's promise would be vain." The Pharisees in holding this preserved the faith gleaned from the Old Testament by the pious fathers of the nation; such was Martha's and Paul's faith (Joh 11:25; Ac 26:6-8). Jacob's dying ejaculation "I have waited for Thy salvation" (Ge 49:18) and Balaam's, "let me die the death of the righteous," etc. (Nu 23:10), assume a future state. (See JOB expressly asserts his anticipation of the resurrection through his Redeemer (Job 19:23-27) (See REDEEMER for the translated.) So David (Ps 16:9-11; 17:14-15) anticipates his "soul not being left in hades," so that "his flesh shall rest in hope," and his "awaking with Jehovah's likeness"; fulfilled in Christ the Head first (Ac 2:25-31), and hereafter to be so in His members.
So Isaiah (Isa 26:19), "thy dead shall live ... my dead body shall they arise"; Christ's dead body raised is the pledge of the resurrection of all Jehovah's people. Daniel (Da 12:2): Hebrew "many from among the sleepers, these (the partakers of the first resurrection, Revelation 20) shall be unto everlasting life; but those (the rest who do not rise until after the thousand years) shall be unto shame" (1Co 15:23). The wicked too shall rise (Joh 5:28-29; Re 20:13). Essentially the same body wherewith the unbeliever sinned shall be the object of punishment (Jer 2:10; Isa 3:9-11; Re 22:11-12; 2Co 5:10), "that every one may receive the things done by the instrumentality of ('dia') the body." Self consciousness witnesses the identity between the body of the infant and full grown man, though that identity does not consist in the sameness of the particles which compose the body at different stages.
Possibly there is some indestructible material germ at the basis of identity between the natural (psychic, i.e. soulish or animal) body and the resurrection body which 1Co 15:44-45 call a "spirit-animated body," in contrast to the "natural." "Christ will transfigure our body of humiliation (2Co 4:10; '/2-Timothy/2/11/type/goodspeed'>2Ti 2:11-12; 'not vile, nothing that He made is vile:' Whately on his death bed), that it may be conformed unto the body of His glory" (Php 3:21). The mere animal functions of flesh and blood shall no longer be needed they do not marry, but are equal to the angels (Lu 20:35-36; 1Co 6:13; 15:35-57; 1Pe 1:3-4) The time is fixed for the Lord's coming (Col 3:4; 1Th 4:16; Revelation 20). (See REGENERATION.)
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Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?
but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married. For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.
Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice, and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.
Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,
In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.
For David says of him, 'I constantly regarded the Lord before me, For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be displaced. Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices, And my body will still live in hope. read more. For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed. You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.' "Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day. But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for he was not deserted in death and his body was not destroyed.
Even now it is for my hope in the promise that God made to our forefathers that I stand here on trial, the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews. read more. Why do you all think it incredible that God should raise the dead?
But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.
But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.
It is a physical body that is sown, it is a spiritual body that is raised. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body also. This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.
never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.
He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.
When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.
May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men, training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,
Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going. Faith led him to make a temporary home as a stranger in the land he had been promised, and to live there in his tents, with Isaac and Jacob, who shared the promise with him. read more. For he was looking forward to that city with the sure foundations, designed and built by God. Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it. And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore. All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth. For men who recognize that show that they are in search of a country of their own. And if it had been the country from which they had come to which their thoughts turned back, they would have found an opportunity to return to it. But, as it is, their aspirations are for a better, a heavenly country! That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city to receive them.
The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and the underworld gave up the dead that were in them, and they were all judged by what they had done.
Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy." "See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Hastings
RESURRECTION
1. In OT.
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But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!
And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.
On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question: "Master, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.' read more. Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother; so did the second, and the third, and the rest of the seven. After them all the woman died. At the resurrection which one's wife will she be? For they all married her." Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God. For after the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.
For after the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven. But as to the resurrection of the dead, did you never read what was said to you by God, read more. 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!"
And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet-call, and they will gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
And there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the stone back and sat upon it.
There they saw him and bowed down before him, though some were in doubt about it.
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question. "Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother. read more. There were once seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died, leaving no child. And the second married her, and died without leaving any child, and so did the third. And none of the seven left any child. Finally, the woman died too. At the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her." Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God? For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.
For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.
For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven. But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? read more. He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong." One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"
and then he will send out the angels and gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.
People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.
Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."
Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."
Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him, "Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother. read more. Now there were seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died childless. And the second married her, and the third, and all the seven married her and died without leaving any child. After ward the woman died too. Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will the woman be? For all seven of them married her." Jesus said to them, "The people of this world marry and are married, but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.
but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married. For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.
For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God.
For they cannot die again; they are like the angels, and through sharing in the resurrection, they are sons of God. But that the dead are raised to life, even Moses indicated in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' read more. He is not the God of dead men but of living, for all men are alive to him."
He is not the God of dead men but of living, for all men are alive to him." Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!"
Some of the scribes replied, "Master, that was a fine answer!"
And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them, but they were prevented from recognizing him.
and learned from them that the Master had really risen and had been seen by Simon.
But they could not yet believe it for sheer joy and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?"
It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.
Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.
For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.
For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.
For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.
For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,
Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,
For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."
For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."
and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"
Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,
just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
As she said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was he.
When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!" Then he showed them his hands and his side, and the disciples were full of joy at seeing the Master.
So the rest of the disciples said to him, "We have seen the Master!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and be no longer unbelieving, but believe!"
But just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, though the disciples did not know that it was he.
So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"
from his baptism by John to the time when he was caught up from us, must join us as a witness to his resurrection."
But God set aside the pain of death and raised him up, for death could not control him.
He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses. So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.
and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.
you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.
you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.
The apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and God's favor rested richly upon them.
"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."
The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him. God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. read more. We and the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him are witnesses to these things."
But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen, not by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had designated beforehand, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead.
For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'
When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We should like to hear you again on this subject."
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.
Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"
and I have the same hope in God that they themselves hold, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.
Even now it is for my hope in the promise that God made to our forefathers that I stand here on trial, the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews. read more. Why do you all think it incredible that God should raise the dead?
and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,
But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth.
For if it is the adherents of the Law who are to possess it, faith is nullified and the promise amounts to nothing!
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?
For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.
For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope
For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,
For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised;
If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world.
For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.
For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again.
But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?" You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first; read more. and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else; and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own. Flesh is not all alike; men have one kind, animals another, birds another, and fish another. There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies, but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is of another. The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty. It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.
It is a physical body that is sown, it is a spiritual body that is raised. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body also.
For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven,
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.
I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,
I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death, in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead.
They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters. But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. read more. He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.
He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.
That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,
when in your baptism you were buried with him, and raised to life with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
when in your baptism you were buried with him, and raised to life with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.
and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.
and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead??esus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.
For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;
They will be punished with eternal ruin and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and his glorious might,
who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.
Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,
for the sake of you who through him trust in God, who raised him from the dead and showed him honor; and so your faith and hope rest on God.
Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
The rest of the dead were not restored to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection.
I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.
Morish
This may be said to be the fundamental principle of God's dealings with man in grace, seeing that man is through sin under the judgement of death. The expression, 'The general resurrection' is found in works on theology, and is explained as meaning that the dead will all be raised at the same time; but this idea is not found in scripture. The Lord speaks of a resurrection unto life. "The dead in Christ" will be raised at the coming of the Lord Jesus, 1Th 4:16; and John speaks of the first resurrection, and adds that "the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." Re 20:5-6. The term 'first' designates rather the character than the time of the resurrection, it will evidently include only the saved; 'the rest' being simply raised for judgement.
It will be seen in Ro 8:11, that the resurrection of believers is of a wholly different order from that of the wicked: the saints will be quickened by, or on account of, God's Spirit that dwells in them, which certainly could not be said of the unconverted. The resurrection of the saints is also distinguished from that of the wicked in being, like that of the Lord and of Lazarus, 'out from among (??) the dead.' Mr 12:25. It was the earnest desire of Paul to attain this. Php 3:11 (see Greek)
The resurrection condition is in the strongest contrast to that after the flesh. That which springs from the seed sown in the ground appears very different in form from the seed sown, though absorbing the substance of the seed. 1 Cor. 15 refers only to the resurrection of the saints, as may be seen in 1Co 15:23-24. There were those at Corinth who said that there was no resurrection (1Co 15:12); and on the other hand it appears from 2Ti 2:18, some held that the resurrection had already past, that they had in fact reached a final condition!
Few distinct intimations of the resurrection are found in the O.T., though the idea of it underlies all the teaching. Job may perhaps have learnt it (Job 19:25-27), and when the Lord rebuked the Sadducees He taught that resurrection could be gathered inferentially from God speaking of Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob long after they were dead. He is God of the living, not of the dead. Mr 12:26-27. Martha spoke of the resurrection as a matter of common orthodox belief, Joh 11:24; which is also implied in its being said that the Sadducees did not believe in it.
Isa 26:19; Eze 37:1-14; and Da 12:2, are often quoted as testimony to resurrection; but these passages are figurative and refer to Israel being raised up as from their national decease (the consequence of their departure from the Lord, Isa 1:1-4), when God will again bless them on the earth. It is an important fact, however, that the figure of resurrection is used.
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For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven. But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? read more. He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong."
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.
Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,
For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;
who have missed the truth and say that the resurrection has taken place already, thus undermining people's faith.
The rest of the dead were not restored to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the man who experiences the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and the Christ, and reign with him for the thousand years.
Watsons
RESURRECTION. The belief of a general resurrection of the dead, which will come to pass at the end of the world, and will be followed with an immortality either of happiness or misery, is an article of religion in common to Jews and Christians. It is very expressly taught both in the Old and New Testaments, Ps 16:10; Job 19:25, &c; Eze 37:1, &c; Isa 26:19; Joh 5:28-29; and to these may be added, Wisdom 3:1, &c; 4:15; 2 Macc. 7:14, 23, 29, &c. At the time when our Saviour appeared in Judea, the resurrection from the dead was received as one of the principal articles of the Jewish religion by the whole body of the nation, the Sadducees excepted, Mt 22:23; Lu 20:28; Mr 12:18; Joh 11:23-24; Ac 23:6,8. Our Saviour arose himself from the dead, to give us, in his own person, a proof, a pledge, and a pattern of our future resurrection. St. Paul, in almost all his epistles, speaks of a general resurrection, refutes those who denied or opposed it, and proves and explains it by several circumstances, Ro 6:5; 1Co 15:12-15; Php 3:10-11; Heb 11:35; 1Th 4:13-17, &c.
On this subject no point of discussion, of any importance, arises among those who admit the truth of Scripture, except as to the way in which the doctrine of the resurrection of the body is to be understood;
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On the same day some Sadducees came up to him, claiming that there is no resurrection, and they asked him this question:
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.
"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice, and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."
Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"
For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.
For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,
But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."
But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?"
I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death, in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead.
He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.
When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.
Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.