Comments December 8, 2010
EXPLICIT BIBLE TRUTH
Jesus
Who is he
What is he
Why is he
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: KJV
Matthew 7:8 For everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened. ISV
Romans 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One (man, Christ Jesus)the many will be made righteous (righteousness is the gift of God, Rom. 3:21-24, Eph. 2:8-10, ISV, KJV).
TODAY’S comments!
âThree Resurrectionsâ
John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has (already has) eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life (eternal life).
John 20:29 Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas (doubting Thomas), you have believed (believed that Christ is raised from the dead). Blessed (blessed by God) are the ones not seeing, and yet believing.
Because of the red lettered words above, this most probably will be the resurrected and raptured New Testament Church who are the redeemed of the New Testament Church age that began at Pentecost which is composed of Jews and Gentiles, males and females, slave and free without discrimination by nationality, gender, or status, the âBody of Christâ, the Church, Galatians 3:28-29, Galatians 1:15-16, Revelation 4:1.
Resuscitation of Saints or Resurrection?
Matthew 27:50 And crying again with a loud voice, Jesus released His spirit.
Matthew 27:51 And, behold! The veil of the temple was torn into two from above as far as below. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were sheared!
Matthew 27:52 And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, (raised from the dead).
Matthew 27:53 And coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection (the Man Christ Jesus), they entered into the holy city (Jerusalem) and were revealed (appeared) to many.
Resuscitation is a temporary restoration of mortal life such as Lazarus, John 11:11-13.
Resurrection is a permanent restoration of a copy of our youthful mortal body but is a much more versatile body. All saints having passed out of their body, having died prior to the resurrection of Jesus who were the redeemed of God who are all saints of God meaning they were set aside by God in the world and in death having been sanctified by God were permanently separated from unbelievers. In death their bodies were buried and their spirit and soul were assigned to the âBosom of Abrahamâ which is in Hades or the vicinity of Hades in the lower parts of the earth. The unredeemed were also in Hades but were in a place of torment, 2Peter 2:1-9.
The saints of Matthew 27:50-53 may have been resuscitated old testament saints or resuscitated recently deceased saints who would be easily recognized by family and friends. This is not a major resurrection.
1Corinthians 15:23 makes it clear that resurrection will begin first with Christ and then New Testament, Church age saints, the “Body of Christ” at his coming for them and them alone, Hebrews 9:28.
If those coming forth out of the tombs here were “New Testament Saints”, those sanctified since the ministry of John the Baptist began, Matthew 11:12-13 then they were most probably resurrected.
2Timothy 2:18 is an interesting context as resurrection is in the singular and may come from a misunderstanding of Matthew 27:50-53. This context regards two men who are upsetting the faith of some Church members saying the “resurrection is past” meaning; they are referring to the resurrection of the Church, the “Body of Christ” which has not yet, to this day happened. The Timothy epistles were written more than 30 years ofter the event of Matthew 27:50-53.
After the resurrection of Jesus it appears that He freed those being held in the âBosom of Abrahamâ and transferred them to the Heavenly Paradise, 2Corinthians 12:2-3, Luke 23:43, Acts 7:56, Ephesians 4:8-10. In Route some of the saints were reunited with their mortal or eternal body and were presented to some people in the earthly Jerusalem as a witness to the bodily resurrection of the dead by Jesus Christ. They were revealed to the many but not to all perhaps to help fortify the faith of the believing. There were more than 500 witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus who is the focal point of the resurrection, 1Corinthians 15:6, 23, Psalm 68:18.
Luke 16:29 Abraham said to him (the rich man), They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
Luke 16:30 But he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go from the dead to them, they will repent.
Luke 16:31 And he said to him, If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if one from the dead should rise.
Before the Kingdom of God has arrived all, 100 percent of the dead will be resurrected. Those who go to the âLake of Fireâ will do so as a result of their own evil choices having ignored the redemption offered by God through repentance.
New and Old Testament division!
The division of Old and New Testaments seems to be made clear here, see below, meaning that we have moved into a new dispensation which is outlined in the New Testament. The Old Testament is still the standard and is often quoted by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament and contains the credential’s of Jesus Christ which number in the hundreds. We need to study both Old and New testaments and rightly understand our place in Bible history and prophecy as most of us are gentiles, wild olive tree branches who were grafted into the cultivated olive tree, Romans 11:17, with Jesus being a Jew who is the prophesied Jewish King of Israel and the world lasting for 1000 years and being interlaced with and replaced by the âKingdom of Godâ, 1Corinthians 15:21-28. Our position as elect gentiles in the âBody of Christâ makes us very unique being joint heirs with Christ, Romans 8:7-17.
Luke 16:14 And being lovers of money, the Pharisees also heard all these things; and they derided Him.
Luke 16:15 And He said to them, You are those justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is a hateful thing before God.
Luke 16:16 “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John (John the Baptist); since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing (pressing) his way into it,
Luke 16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail, Matthew 5:17-18.
The red but means that verse 14-17 work together meaning this is primarily aimed at the Pharisees who having the letter of the Law did not actually keep the Law but like Cain who murdered his brother Able they have their own planned sin offering and were being disobedient to God attempting to force their way into the âKingdom of Godâ.
The âKingdom of Godâ is the final and eternal kingdom.
First Resurrection!
John 5:25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming (future, Rev.20:5) and now is (present, Matt. 27:52-53 see above), when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear shall live, Daniel 12:1-2 N.A.S.B, Revelation 20:4-6.
Hour is coming. At this point in future time, by at least 7 years prior, the “Body of Christ” the Church has already been resurrected.
When Church age saints die, leave the body, their soul and spirit go immediately to be with the Lord in the 3rd Heaven but their bodie’s go to the grave. At the Church rapture they return with the Lord for the redemption of their new bodies, Romans 8:23, 2Corinthians 5:8, see also 2Timothy 2:18!
The hour is coming is most probably the first resurrection which will be believing Old Testament Israelis and Gentiles as well as Tribulation saints of the “Great Tribulation”, the last seven years of rule by the usurper who is Satan meaning the enemy who formerly was Lucifer, son of the morning, Isaiah 14:12-23. This will occur at the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Now is. This is probably Matthew 27:52-53, see above. It is interesting to note here that only many and not all of the saints were resurrected and those who were entered into Jerusalem only. This would imply that this was a limited local occurrence.
John 5:26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
John 5:27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
The Son of God , John 5:25 above, who is Deity who will raise the dead and the Son of Man, Matthew 9:6, who is the humanity of the God-man who will execute judgment are both titles/names with job descriptions of Jesus Christ, see red lettering above.
We might compare this to an Army Lieutenant who functions as an officer in the military but at home he functions as a husband and father as these are all titles/names with job descriptions and perhaps are like facets on a gemstone.
The second resurrection!
The Rapture and the first resurrection occurred 1000 years prior to this resurrection, Revelation 20:5. Historically, the Kingdom of Heaven has finished and we will continue on with the concurrent and Eternal Kingdom of God but the balance of the dead must be raised and judged by Christ Jesus, the Son Of Manwho also judged the works of those sanctified, the saints. Everyone who has been raised so far has been found blameless by the blood of the lamb of God. Those that are raised in the final resurrection will be judged by their works. Still, those that are not cast into the lake of fire will survive by the Grace of God. None of us have perfect works! Our works will be judged at the Bema, judgment seat of Christ but our eternal life was guaranteed in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world to the Glory of God. We are in process to perfection, the image of Jesus Christ. The thief at Calvary was never water baptized. Was he processed? He is waiting for us in Heaven.
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, (The remainder, balance of those having died)
John 5:29 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, Daniel 12 last half of verse 2, Revelation 20:11-15.
Revelation 20:15 And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the Lake of Fire.
The Great White Throne Judgment!
Romans 2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Romans 2:2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
Romans 2:3 Do you suppose, O man–you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself–that you will escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed (the Great White Throne judgment).
Romans 2:6 He will render to each one (of this immediate context) according to his works:
Romans 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give (not earned) eternal life;
Romans 2:8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Romans 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek (gentile),
Romans 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek (gentile).
Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified, Luke 1:5-6.
Romans 2:14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
Romans 2:15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
Romans 2:16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus (the Son of Man).
Ron
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