Therefore besides not being a brethren, he would not have been eligible for the first resurrection, no more than John the Baptist was.
Do you mean John was not chosen to be part of the first resurrection? What about Abraham? Doesn't the scripture talk about Abraham believing God and it was imparted to him as righteousness? Just need a little help understanding what makes one eligible to be in the first resurrection. Thanks!
stello
Hi Stello,
Yes none of the patriarch, prophets or even John the Baptist will be in the first resurrection, because as Michael showed the Scripture they all died before Christ was sacrificed and did not receive the promise.
Mat 11:11 Truly I say to you, Among those who have been born of women there has not risen a greater one than John the Baptist. But the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.
Nobody will/can be in the first Resurrection accept "through" Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:11 This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the Corner.
v. 12 And
there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
2Cor 5:18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself
through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
The God of the OT that we know as the Savior of the world was not yet born into the world for those in the old covenant time. It was only by the life and death of Christ as the perfect sacrifice that any will be saved. Jesus is the only way, He is the Good Shepherd and the Door to the few now and the rest later.
John 10:9
I am the Door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
Jon 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
v. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
John 10:14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
v. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
We must know Christ, just as He knows us and that is only possible if you have heard the gospel message of His life and death and resurrection as the Savior of the world. Only now since Christ came and the new covenant replaced the old are a few being brought/drawn to Christ to receive His spirit.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.
John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be
saved through Him.
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm, 4 just as He chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption to Himself through Jesus the Messiah, according to the pleasure of His will, 6 so that we would praise His glorious grace that He gave us in the Beloved One. 7 In union with Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God's grace 8 that He lavished on us, along with all wisdom and understanding, 9 when He made known to us the secret of His will. This was according to His plan that He set forth in the Messiah 10 to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth. 11 In the Messiah we were also chosen when we were predestined according to the purpose of the one who does everything that He wills to do, 12 so that we who had already fixed our hope on the Messiah might live for His praise and glory. 13 You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in the Messiah, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until God redeems His own possession for His praise and glory. (ISV)
mercy, peace and love
Kat