1. Systematic Theology III The Doctrine of Last Things
The Resurrection

2. The Resurrection Biblical Terms for the Resurrection
OT: “One of the greatest texts on resurrection in the Old Testament is Isaiah 26:19 – ‘Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.’ Each of the three most common words for resurrection in the Old Testament has been used in this clearly eschatological text (quts, to awake; chayah, to live; and qum, to rise).
NT: “There are also three principal New Testament words for resurrection: egeiro, to rise (Eph 1:20); anistemi, to stand up (John 6:40); and anastasis, a standing up or resurrection (John 5:29)” (McCune, p. 397).

3. Resurrection in the Old Testament
Type
“The incident of Abraham offering up Isaac on Mount Moriah is a type of all resurrection from the dead…Abraham’s faith in his God and the unconditional covenant that guaranteed him an innumerable posterity quite evidently led him to believe that God would perform a resurrection, were he to slay the son of promise” (McCune, p. 397). See Heb 11:17-19.
Implication
“Jesus notes that the incident of the burning bush in Moses’ experience taught bodily resurrection” (McCune, p. 398). See Matt 22:31-32.
Texts
Psa 16:10; 17:15; 49:15; Isa 25:8; 26:19; Dan 12:2
The Unity of the Human Personality
“Man is treated as a whole, unified being in Old Testament theology – material and immaterial, or body, soul, and spirit in functional cohesion – not abstractly considered as a dichotomous or a tripartite person” (McCune, p. 399).
Confirmed in Old Testament History – There were at least three bodily resurrections in the Old Testament:
Son of the widow at Zarephath by Elijah (1 Kgs 17:17-24)
Son of the woman at Shunem by Elisha (2 Kgs 4:32-35)
Man who touched the bones of Elisha (2 Kgs 13:20-21)

4. Resurrection in the New Testament
Affirmed in the Teaching of Jesus
John 5:28 “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, 29 and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.”
Confirmed by the Ministry of Jesus – He also brought three people back from the dead:
The widow’s son (Luke 7:12-15)
Jairus’s daughter (Luke 8:41-42, 49-56)
Lazarus (John 11:41-44)
Demonstrated by the Resurrection of Jesus
“Christ’s own resurrection from the dead demonstrated conclusively the truth that God will raise the dead” (McCune, p. 400). See 1 Cor 15:20.
Full Revealed by Paul
“The greatest and most definitive chapter on bodily resurrection is 1 Corinthians 15, and Paul’s theology here is oriented to three important questions: ‘How do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?’ (1 Cor 15:12); ‘How are the dead raised?’; ‘And with what kind of body do they come’ (1 Cor 15:35)?” (McCune, p. 400).

5. The Biblical Idea of Resurrection
“In the doctrine of eschatology, resurrection always concerns the body” (McCune, p. 401).
“Two deviants Hymenaeus and Philetus, were condemned by the Paul for their error on the doctrine of resurrection. In the Apostle’s words, they were ‘men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and thus they upset the faith of some’ (2 Tim 2:18). The error here apparently was a refusal to affirm a bodily resurrection and a promotion of a spiritual, or at least a non-bodily, resurrection” (McCune, p. 401).
The body in contrast to the soul.

6. The Order of the Resurrection
“The resurrection is not a single-event; the Bible does not teach a ‘general resurrection’” (McCune, p. 401).
1 Cor 15:22-24 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.
Christ the Firstfruits/Firstborn
Christ was the first to come forth with a resurrection body that would never die again. He is the head of His class!
Those That Are Christ’s at His Coming
These include church saints, the two witnesses of Rev 11, tribulation martyrs, and OT saints raised after the tribulation.
Other biblical names for this resurrection are “resurrection of the righteous” (Luke 14:14), “resurrection of life” (John 5:29), a “better resurrection” (Heb 11:35), and the “first resurrection” (Rev 20:5).
The End Resurrection
“The phrase, ‘then comes the end [telos]’ (1 Cor 15:24), does not merely signify the eschatological end time in general but, in context, refers to another in the order (tagma) of resurrection. These are the unsaved of all times, ‘the rest of the dead [that] did not come to life until the thousand years were completed’ (Rev 20:5)” (McCune, p. 403).
After and then are time words denoting sequence. McCune says that those OT saints who came out of the grave at Christ’s resurrected presumably were taken to heaven as tokens of the reorganization of Sheol.

7. The Order of the Resurrections 1 Cor 15:23
All Remaining
Dead Rev 20:12
Two Witnesses,
Tribulation & OT Saints
Rev 11:11-12; 20:4; Dan 12:1-2
Church
Saints
Christ, the first
fruits
New
Heavens
&
Earth
Church Age
The
Tribulation
Millennial Kingdom

8. The Resurrection Body of the Saints
“Christ’s bodily resurrection from the dead is a guarantee that his followers likewise will experience a transformed body” (McCune, p. 404).
Note on Immortality
“Man’s immortality/deathlessness, via the image of God, is derivative, thus man is not capable of a final and permanent separation of his soul and spirit from his body” (McCune, p. 404).
The Pattern of the Resurrection Body
See 1 Cor 15:35-49 and Phil 3:20-21.
The Identity of the Resurrection Body
“In identity our glorified body will be the same body we have today, the same body that was laid in the grave…In Paul’s analogy of the bare grain (1 Cor 15:36-38), the grain harvested is the same identity with that which was put into the ground” (McCune, p. 406).

9. The Resurrection Body of the Saints
The Substance of the Resurrection Body
“It appears that resurrection is not a recovery of every exact molecule of the old body. According to the analogy of the bare grain (v 37), the resurrection body will be somewhat different in substance. One does not harvest in substance the exact grains that were planted, but they are the same in identity” (McCune, p. 406).
The Structure of the Resurrection Body
“The resurrection body will be corporeal in structure, but one that will be adapted to the new sphere of function” (McCune, p. 407).
The Nature of the Resurrection Body
“The resurrection body is a ‘spiritual’ body having been sown a ‘natural’ body (1 Cor 15:44). In a ‘spiritual’ body (pneumatikon) the energizer is the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:11– God will give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells us)” (McCune, p. 407).

10. Next Time: The Doctrine of Last Things
Divine Judgment