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MSG: He is Living John 20

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This is a special message presented on Resurrection Sunday, April 20, 2014

Many of you have heard of Adam and Eve. God created them in the Garden of Eden and gave them perfect everything! They both had perfect air, food, water and perfect companions.  However, the one thing God asked them not to do, they did. That produced a problem. God had said that if they ate of the fruit that was forbidden to them, they would die (They did die physically, hundreds of years, but this death was spiritual, a separation). It was a spiritual death (a separation), because God is holy and His holiness cannot tolerate anything that is contrary to His character and will. They could no longer enjoy intimacy in relationship with God. So God banished them from the Garden! That was a problem.

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Question: Resurrection: Who and When?

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Resurrection

 

Who is taken at the different resurrections? And when do they take place?

1)      Resurrection comes from a word that means to stand again (anastasis.).  It is the transformation of the physical to the spiritual (1 Cor. 15:50-54), the transition from the temporal to the eternal (1 Cor. 15:52) and the transparency of the ambiguity to clarity (Dan. 12:3; 1 Cor. 13:12).

2)      The basis of the teaching is built upon the empty tomb of Jesus (John 20:1-17).

3)      Resurrection is more about the corporate resurrection than the individual. There are two resurrections: The resurrection order of the living (elect) and the order of unbelievers (non-elect) (Matt. 25:33-46).

4)      Jesus’ first resurrection order is for all believers and includes Jesus (Rev. 20:5-6).

a)      Jesus is the first fruits of the resurrection (Rom. 8:29; 1 Cor. 15:23).

i)        The Father planned that Jesus be raised from the dead (1 Thes. 1:10).

ii)      He was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 1:4).

iii)    Jesus’ resurrection is the basis for our hope in life (1 Pet. 1:3).

b)      The raptured Church is second (1 Cor. 15:51-57; 1 Thes. 4:13-18).

c)      The Old Testament saints and Tribulational martyrs are third at the end of the Tribulation.  There would be a rest for the Old Testament saints until the last days concluded during the Tribulation (Dan. 12:13).

i)        Martha knew Lazarus would rise in the last day (John 11:24).

ii)      The Old Testament saints will rise from the dust (Is. 26:19-20).

iii)    Tribulational martyrs will join the Lord at this point (Rev. 20:4).

d)     Millennial saints are fourth at the Millennium end (Rev. 20:11-15).

5)      The second resurrection occurs at the end of the Millennium and is composed of all unbelievers who rejected the saving work of Jesus on the cross (Rev. 20:11-15).  They will be judged based on their works, because they were not persuaded to believe in Jesus as their Savior (John 3:36).

a)      The Day of Judgment will come (2 Pet. 3:7).

b)      The evil of rejecting Jesus Christ brings condemnation (John 5:28-29).

c)      They will join the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41).