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Jay:
Greetings all,

I happened to be doing some reading on the net regarding the 2nd resurrection and it appears that some believe that the words "the rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished" is spurious. It is said that these words do not appear in the earliest manuscripts and were an interpolation which occurred sometime during the Dark Ages. So, basically, what they are saying is that there is no thousand year gap between the two resurrections, that the 2nd resurrection occurs during the millenial reign of Christ sometime after the saints are raised and united with the living saints at the 2nd coming of Christ.

Does anyone have any thoughts/info on this?

Thanks.

Peace.

Jay

josh:
Jay,

Have you read: http://bible-truths.com/rapture.htm  ?

Hope this helps.
Josh

Flipper:
If you believe in Peter's statement of "A day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day, and that Adam and Eve existed about 4000 BC, we would currently be in the finishing stages of the 'sixth' day.

When Christ comes to redeem and further train His blessed and holy, chosen of the called, overcomers at the 1st resurrection (Rev 20:6), a 1000 year, 7th 'rest' day kinda makes sense.

In addition, Rev 20:6's saying '1st resurrection' implies a 2nd. 

skydreamers:
Hi Jay,
I find this topic intriguing as well.  You might find this thread helpful in which a similar topic is discussed:

http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,2749.0.html

It was through this thread that I first learned that the verse you mentioned might be spurious.  That blew me away because it was just another example of having the rug pulled out from under me concerning things I had been taught in the years before bibletruths.com.

But now, having learned what I have here, it starts to make more sense that the 1st and 2nd resurrections may well be at the same time, or one right after the other.

Interesting indeed....

Peace,
Diana

Jay:
Hi Diana -

Thanks for the link. Interesting. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense that there's no 1000 year gap between the two resurrections. If Christ is to rule the nations with a rod of iron for 1000 years and the unbelievers aren't to be resurrected until after the 1000 years, then who are Christ and His chosen reigning over? There's so much that I've been unlearning its mind-blowing. There's a lot to look forward to! This present age is almost done, which means the next age is coming up with a world under the rulership of Jesus Christ! Can't wait!!!

Peace.

Jay

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