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RESURRECTIONS.
There will not take place any resurrections of
the physically dead back to life on earth in the flesh
not on this earth, nor in the promised "new earth".
A "NEW HEAVEN" AND A "NEW EARTH".
The promised "new earth" is new with
reference to the spirit governing people's lives. (Rev 21:1. 2 Peter 3:13)
(Isaiah 66:22. 65:17). Instead of "Esau" types dominating the earth, their
wicked spirit influence will be replaced by a righteous spirit authority
called the "Jacob" age. (Mal 1:2-5). The time designated for the "Jacob" age is
a thousand years. During this age, although people will die of the physical
curse of Adam (Isaiah 65:20), they will be resurrected in spirit by The Christ.
(Rev 20:5). There will be no interval between the "Esau" and "Jacob" ages. (2
Esdras 6:7-10). Furthermore, those of the dead who will hear Christ's voice and
come out of their memorial tombs, will do so only in the sense of their spirit
being quickened to everlasting spirit life in the "new heavens"; whether
they died before Christ was on earth (Heb 11:13-16), or after his earthly death.
(John 5:28,29).
THE "GREAT CROWD" AND THE
"GREAT TRIBULATION". (Rev 7:9-17).
The "Esau" age has been a tribulation
for all servants of God, but God will repay tribulation to those who made
tribulation for His beloved people. Those making tribulation for His servants
are lawless ones who do not know God and do not obey the "good news" about our
Lord Jesus. (2 Thess 1:4-10). The "tribulation ten days" suffered by God's
anointed sons and described in Revelation 2:10*
occurred between December 1st 1971 and November 30th 1981.
(See book: 'The Signal'. Appendix:
The Final Rebellion).
Those described in Revelation 7:9-17 as dressed
in "white robes" (which represent salvation through spirit sanctification) are
those destined to be before God and the Lamb in heaven, in spirit bodies
(where there is no sun to "beat down upon them". Rev 7:16). These are an
innumerable great crowd, comprising of those that have come through the "great
tribulation" of the "Esau" age into the new "Jacob" age, and those that have
come through the 1,000 year period of the "Jacob" age, each inheriting
everlasting life in the new spirit heavens before God's throne. They were
gathered out of all nations while in the flesh. There is no scriptural
evidence inspired of God to suggest that resurrections of the dead
will be to another life on earth in the flesh.
THOSE WHO DIED BEFORE CHRIST'S DEATH.
All those who died in faith will get
the fulfilment of the promises they saw afar off. "And yet, if they had
indeed kept remembering that [place] from which they had gone forth (earth),
they would have had opportunity to return." They did not, because by
faith they were reaching out for a better place belonging to heaven (spirit
life). (Heb 11:13-16. See Pages 870,
871A and 871B). They have a City in heaven ready for them. (Heb 11:16). |