RESURRECTION

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The common teaching of a general resurrection is not taught in Scripture. See such scriptures as John 5:29; Acts 24:15 and Luke 14:14.
1 Cor. 15 teaches us of the resurrection of believers: "Christ the first-fruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming."
Rev. 20, verse 4, teaches us that these saints lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, while verse 5 teaches us that the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished, adding: "This is the first resurrection," thus clearly teaching the fact of there being two resurrections.
This "resurrection from among the dead was first taught by our Lord in Mark 9:9. The disciples did believe in the resurrection of the dead. It was a current Jewish belief gathered correctly from the Old Testament scriptures. (Job 19:25-27; Acts 23:8.)
Christianity gives the precious truth of a "first resurrection" that will take place at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 4:15-18.)
THE LORD is risen: the Red Sea's judgment flood
Is passed in Him, who bought us with His blood.
The Lord is risen: we stand beyond the doom
Of all our sin, through Jesus' empty tomb.
The Lord is risen: with Him we also rose,
And in His grave see vanquished all our foes.
The Lord is risen: beyond the judgment land,
In Him, in resurrection life we stand.
The Lord is risen: redeemed now to God,
We tread the desert which His feet have trod.
The Lord is risen: the sanctuary's our place,
Where now we dwell before the Father's face.
The Lord is risen: the Lord is gone before,
We long to see Him, and to sin no more;
The Lord is risen: our triumph-shout shall be,
"Thou hast prevailed! Thy people, Lord, are free!"