1. The Resurrections The central goal, definition and sine qua non of Christianity

2. - Important Questions -
HOW DO THE PASSAGES ON THE RESURRECTION
CORRELATE ?
WHAT ARE THE
THEOLOGICAL VIEWS
ON THE RESURRECTION ?
ARE THERE DISTINCTIONS
BETWEEN RESURRECTIONS ?
WHAT RESURRECTIONS
ARE FUTURE ?
HOW CAN THE
RESURRECTIONS
BE SUMMARIZED ?

3. A Quick Definition Resurrection – from the Greek anastasis Ana – again
Stasis – to stand upright
Anastasis – to stand upright again

4. For Paul the Resurrection is a sine qua non of Christianity
1 Corinthians 15: can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

5. For Paul the Resurrection is a sine qua non of Christianity
15More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.

6. For Paul the Resurrection is a sine qua non of Christianity
16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

7. Resurrection a sine qua non of Christianity
19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

8. Resurrection Paul on Mars Hill – The Areopagus
18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-- because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. (Act 17:18 NAS)
31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again concerning this." (Act 17:31-32 NAS)

9. The prophet Daniel on the Resurrection
Daniel 12:1-3 "At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people-- everyone whose name is found written in the book-- will be delivered.

10. The prophet Daniel on the Resurrection
2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

11. Job on the Resurrection
25 "And as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
26 "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
27 Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes shall see and not another. My heart faints within me.
(Job 19:25-27 NAS)

12. The Lord Jesus on the Resurrection
John 5: "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out-- those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.

13. The Apostle Paul on the Resurrection
Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

14. The author of Hebrews on the Resurrection
Hebrews 11: Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37 They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

15. The author of Hebrews on the Resurrection
Hebrews 11: Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37 They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

16. The Apostle John on the Resurrection
Revelation 20:4-6 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

17. The Apostle John on the Resurrection
Revelation 20: The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done.
14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

18. Various Views of the Resurrections
CHRIST’S
2nd COMING
GENERAL RESURRECTION
JUST & UNJUST
LIFE & DAMNATION
FIRST & “SECOND”
GENERAL
JUDGMENT
Various Views of the Resurrections
THE AMILLENNIAL* VIEW
WHAT ARE THE
THEOLOGICAL
VIEWS ON THE
RESURRECTION ?
END OF
WORLD
ISRAEL = CHURCH
CHURCH = ISRAEL
GOD’S KINGDOM : WORKING FOR GOOD
SATAN’S KINGDOM : WORKING FOR EVIL
* AMILLENNIALISM : BELIEVES THERE IS NO MILLENNIAL (1000 YEAR) KINGDOM ON EARTH

19. Various Views of the Resurrections
CHRIST’S
2nd COMING
GENERAL RESURRECTION
JUST & UNJUST
LIFE & DAMNATION
FIRST & “SECOND”
GENERAL
JUDGMENT
Various Views of the Resurrections
THE POST-MILLENNIAL, TRIUMPHAL VIEW
WHAT ARE THE
THEOLOGICAL
VIEWS ON THE
RESURRECTION ?
END OF
WORLD
ISRAEL = CHURCH
CHURCH = ISRAEL
GREAT COMMISSON
MILLENNIUM
UNDEFINED PERIOD
OF TIME
RIGHTEOUSNESS &
PEACE ON EARTH
WORLD CHRISTIANIZED
TRIUMPH OVER EVIL

20. (THE 2ND DEATH, TO ETERNAL DEATH) -THE CHURCH- IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST
The Resurrections
THE PREMILLENNIAL VIEW
Bema 1 Cor 3:10-15
CHRIST COMING
WITH HIS GLORIFIED SAINTS
THE 2nd COMING,
AS DANIEL'S “SON OF MAN”, AND AS DAVIDIC KING (MATT 25)
GREAT
WHITE
THRONE
JUDGMENTREV 20:11
RAPTURE -CHRIST
COMING
FOR HIS
SAINTS
SHEEP/GOAT JUDGEMENT OF GENTILES RE: ISRAEL
THE “BETTER” RESURRECTION (S)
( TO ETERNAL LIFE )
FINAL
RESURRECTION
(THE 2ND DEATH, TO ETERNAL DEATH)
-THE CHURCH- IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST
UNBELIEVING
DEAD FROM
ALL AGES
REV 20:5, 11-15
DANIEL 12:2b
CHRIST
THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE “BETTER” RESURRECTION (S)
1 COR 15:20-23
DEAD IN CHRIST
1 Thess 4:16
1 COR 15:23
THE 2
WITNESSES
REV 11:3-14
TRIBULATION
SAINTS
REV 20:4-6
OLD
TESTAMENT
SAINTS
DAN 12:1-3
JOB 19:25-27
ALIVE IN
CHRIST
1 Thess 4:17
CHURCH AGE
ISRAEL SUSPENDED
...
ISRAEL RESUMED
TRIBULATION
Daniel's 70th Week
MILLENNIUM
PENTECOST

21. Past Resurrections CHRIST’S RESURRECTION RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD
ARE THERE
DISTINCTIONS
BETWEEN
RESURRECTIONS ?
RESURRECTION: ( ANASTASIS )
LIT: TO CAUSE TO STAND UP
A RAISING UP OF THE PHYSICAL
BODY FROM PHYSICAL DEATH
RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DEAD
CHRIST’S RESURRECTION
RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY
RAISED AN IMMORTAL BODY
WIDOW’S
SON
1 KI 17:17-24
WIDOW’S
SON
LK 7:11-18
LAZARUS
JN 11:32-46
DORCAS
ACTS 9:41
YOUNG
MAN
ACTS 20:12
SHUNAMMITE’S
SON
2 KI 4:18-37
*SAINTS AFTER
CHRIST’S
RESURRECTION
MT 27: 50-53
RULER OF
SYNAGOG’S
DAUGHTER
MK 5:35-43
RESTORATIONS
RAISED A NATURAL BODY
RAISED A MORTAL BODY (THEY ALL DIED AGAIN)
POINT : THESE ARE RESTORATIONS TO A MORTAL LIFE. *(There is a question here: raised to mortal life, or raised to a glorified body as firstfruits?)

22. The Resurrections - Overview
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CHRIST
COMING
FOR HIS
SAINTS
GREAT
WHITE
THRONE
JUDGMENT
CHRIST
COMING
WITH HIS
SAINTS
HOW CAN THE
RESURRECTIONS
BE SUMMARIZED ?
CHURCH AGE
TRIBULATION
MILLENNIUM
RESTORATIONS
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED TO:
PREVIOUS STATE OF DECAY
A MORTAL BODY
A NATURAL BODY
PHYSICAL DEATH AGAIN
LAST
RESURRECTION
THE FIRST RESURRECTION /
THE BETTER RESURRECTION (S)
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED
FROM ALL AGES
WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY
TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED WITH:
AN INCORRUPTABLE BODY
AN IMMORTAL BODY
ETERNAL LIFE

23. The Resurrections - Overview
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CHRIST
COMING
FOR HIS
SAINTS
O.T. Saints understood and are awaiting THIS resurrection: Job 19:25-27; Psalms 49:15; 17:20
At/to the Millennial Kingdom
N.T. Saints are awaiting THIS resurrection: 1 Thess 4:16
To Heaven, to Return with Christ at 2nd Coming
GREAT
WHITE
THRONE
JUDGMENT
CHRIST
COMING
WITH HIS
SAINTS
HOW CAN THE
RESURRECTIONS
BE SUMMARIZED ?
Resurrection
To Everlasting Life, Dan 12:2
To Life, John 5:28, 29
Of the Just, Acts 24:13
The First Resurrection, Rev 20:4-6
Resurrection
To Everlasting Contempt, Dan 12:2
To Damnation, John 5:29
Of the Unjust, Acts 24:15
To the 2nd Death, Rev 20:13,14
CHURCH AGE
TRIBULATION
MILLENNIUM
RESTORATIONS
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED TO:
PREVIOUS STATE OF DECAY
A MORTAL BODY
A NATURAL BODY
PHYSICAL DEATH AGAIN
LAST
RESURRECTION
THE FIRST RESURRECTION /
THE BETTER RESURRECTION (S)
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED
FROM ALL AGES
WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY
TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION
PHYSICALLY DEAD RAISED WITH:
AN INCORRUPTABLE BODY
AN IMMORTAL BODY
ETERNAL LIFE

24. I am the resurrection and the life!