Resurrection
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Ezekiel 37:1-8 ,10
Beloved, now we are children of YAHWEH
YAHWEH wants all to come to repentance, all human beings who have ever been born or ever will be born , will have their chance to come to the knowledge of the truth, all will someday understand that they were born physically to be ‘born again’ into the kingdom of YAHWEH as spirit beings. YAHWEH, the Father has desired to form for Himself and from His very being a family of immortal children who will be partakers of His own divine nature. Messiah’s resurrection makes possible our resurrection to immortal life in the very divine Family of ELOHIM. He is only the first –born of many brethren. Our gift of eternal life results not from the death of Messiah but from His resurrection. Messiah becomes our eldest brother in the Spirit Family of ELOHIM, for all will have the same Father, all will be begotten of the same Spirit, YAHWEH’s Spirit and all will be born into the same family.
Your dead shall live, together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust [grave] For your dew is like the dew of the hers and the earth [grave] shall cast out the dead. Isaiah 26:19.
I am the Aleph [Alpha] and the Tav [Omega], the Beginning and the End, says YAHWEH, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, EL SHADDAI [Almighty] Revelation 1:8.
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren [believers] Romans 8:29.
It was Ruach haQodesh [Holy Spirit] of YAHWEH, put there by the Father at Messiah’s human begotten and dwelling in Messiah, by which the Father resurrected Him with an immortal Spiritual body. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Yahshua Messiah from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Ruach [Spirit] who dwells in you. Roman 8:11.
Beloved, now we are children of YAHWEH and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. John 3:2.
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Ruach [Spirit] John 3:8.
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scripture and that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scripture and that He was seen by Cephus [Peter] then by the twelve, after that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the Apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also as by one born out of due time. 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.
Now if Messiah is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Messiah is not risen. And if Messiah is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes and we are found false witnesses of YAHWEH, because we have testified of YAHWEH that He raised up Messiah whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead do not rise, for if the dead do not rise, then Messiah is not risen and if Messiah is not risen, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. Then also those who have fallen asleep in Messiah have perished. 1 Corinthians 15:12-18.
But now Messiah is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep, for since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah all shall be made alive, but each one in his own order, Messiah the firstfruits, afterward those who are Messiah’s at His coming. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23.
Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder, that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Master and Savior, knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget that by the word of YAHWEH the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of water and in the water by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word are reversed for fire until the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing that with YAHWEH one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. YAHWEH is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of YAHWEH will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat, both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of YAHWEH, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire and the elements will melt fervent heat? Nevertheless we according to His promise look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace without spot and blameless and consider that the longsuffering of our Master is salvation as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him has written to you. You therefore, beloved since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Master and Savior Yahshua HaMashiach [Messiah] 2 Peter 3: 1-14, 17-18.
Do not be deceived, “Evil company corrupts good habits. 1 Corinthians 15: 33.
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies [heavenly] and terrestrial bodies [earthly], but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead, the body is sown [buried] in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown [buried] in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown [buried] in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown [buried] a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. The is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.. And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam became a life giving the spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust, the second Man [Yahshua] is the Master from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust and as is the heavenly Man [Yahshua] so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man [Yahshua Messiah]. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of YAHWEH nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.” O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin the law. But thanks be to YAHWEH who gives us the victory through our Master Yahshua Messiah. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of YAHWEH, knowing that your labor is not in vain in YAHWEH. 1 Corinthians 15:39-58.
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him and I will raise him up at the last day. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father. John 6:44, 47, 65.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [grave]. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. Matthew 12: 40-42.
Now on the first day of the week Mariam of Magdala went to the tomb early, while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Yahshua loved and said to them, “They have taken away the Master out of the tomb and we do not know where they have laid Him” Peter therefore went out and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. And he, stooping down and looking in saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in. Then Simon Peter [Cepher] came, following him and went into the tomb and he saw the linen cloths lying there and the handkerchief that had been around His head not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first went in also and he saw and believed. For as yet they did not know the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead. Then the disciple went away again to their own homes. Mariam of Magdala sees the risen Master. But Mariam stood outside by the tomb weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Yahshua had lain. Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? “She said to them, ‘because they have taken away my Master and I do not know where they have laid Him.’ Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Yahshua standing there and did not know that it was Yahshua. Yahshua said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away tell me where You have laid Him and I will take Him away.” Yahshua said to her, “Mariam” she turned and said to Him, “Rabboni’ [which is to say, Teacher]. Yahshua said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father, but go to MY brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father and to YAHWEH and your YAHWEH. Then, the same day at evening being the first day of the week [Sunday] when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Yahshua came and stood in the midst and said to them, “Peace be with you” [Shalom]
Now as they said these things, Yahshua Himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, Peace to you [Shalom] But they were terrified and frightened and supposed they had seen a spirit. Luke 24:36-37. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him and He vanished from their sight. Luke 24: 31.
YAHWEH’s Plan of Salvation is through the three resurrection. It is YAHWEH who calls us to the knowledge of the truth and YAHWEH who grant us repentance.
In relation to knowing and obeying YAHWEH’s Word, there are three general categories of people on earth: Those who know the truth and obey. Those who do not know the truth and consequently do not obey and, Those who know the truth but will not obey.
I have hope in YAHWEH, which they themselves [Apostles] also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. Acts 24:15.
The first resurrection is for those who have lived, known and obeyed YAHWEH before and up to the second coming of Messiah, they ate called “Saints” in the Bible. When people qualify during the Millennium they evidently will be changed immediately from flesh to Spirit. For Yahshua Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet [shofar] of YAHWEH and the dead in Messiah will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet Yahshua in the air and thus we shall always be with Yahshua. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
The First Resurrection
The first resurrection is for the saints who know the truth and obey, it will takes place at the beginning of the thousand years [Millennium]. The judgment began when YAHWEH first called us to the knowledge of the truth and it will continue until the day we die or are changed [the flesh still dies] at Messiah return. Judgment, then takes place over a period of time. For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of YAHWEH and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of YAHWEH? Now. “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the unrighteous and the sinner appear? Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of YAHWEH commit their spirit to Him in doing well, as to a faithful Creator. 1 Peter 4:17-19. I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of YAHWEH, which is the church of the living YAHWEH, the pillar and ground of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15.
Then I saw the cherub [angel] coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years and he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. And I saw thrones and they sat on them and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the body [souls] of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Yahshua and for the word of YAHWEH, who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands and they lived and reigned with Messiah for thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection, over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of YAHWEH and of Messiah and shall reign with Him a thousand years. Revelation 20:1-6.
And have made us kings and priests to our YAHWEH and we shall reign on the earth. Revelation 5:10. Yahshua Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and has made us kings and priests to His YAHWEH and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1:5-6
The Second Resurrection.
The second resurrection is for those who do not know the truth and consequently do not obey, those who have lived and died prior to the second coming of Messiah without ever knowing the truth of YAHWEH. This will include by far the vast majority of all human beings who have ever lived. Those who have lived and died without having this period of time to know the full truth and be judged according to their works, will be given that chance during the Great White Throne Judgment. Most of the kings, leaders and rulers who have ever lived will be resurrected then, great and important men in the eyes of this world. And the billions they have ruled over will also be in that resurrection. The second resurrection will take place shortly after the Millennium, the one thousand year rule of Messiah and His Saints on the earth.
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before YAHWEH and books [Scriptures] were opened. And another book was opened which is the Book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and hades [grave] delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then death and hades [grave] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
At the time of the second resurrection people will be rising out of their graves [hades] out of the sea or from wherever they died, back to physical life again on a beautiful earth. It does not matter how or where they died. YAHWEH has the power to give them another physical body, breathe life into it and place them in a dry safe place. Ezekiel saw and heard the way it is going to happen. So I prophesied as I was commanded and as I prophesied there was a noise and suddenly a rattling and the bones came together, bone to bone. Indeed as I looked the sinews and the flesh came upon them and the skin covered them over, but there was no breath in them. So I prophesied as He commanded me and breath came into them and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. Ezekiel 37:7-8, 10.
For behold, I create new heaven and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind, but be glad and rejoice forever in what I create, for behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people, the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her nor the voice of crying. No more shall an infant from there live but a few days nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days, for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them, they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth children for trouble, for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of YAHWEH and their offspring with them. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, “Says YAHWEH. Isaiah 65: 17-21, 23, 25.
There will be peace, happiness and safety everywhere and everyone who is resurrected, those who died young and those who died old will be resurrected and live a full one hundred [100] years more. No new babies will be born during this period, after the hundred [100] years period all who have qualified will be born into YAHWEH’s family as spirit beings and live forever, if they do not qualify after this period of time they shall be accursed, they will be destroyed in the lake of fire and remain dead forever.
Then death and hades [graves] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death and anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14-15.
This is what will happen to those brought up in the second resurrection who are still sinners at the end of the one hundred [100] year period called the Great White Throne Judgment, they shall be accursed, burned up in the lake of fire.
The Third and the Last Resurrection
The third and the last resurrection is for those who know the truth but will not obey, those who have known YAHWEH’s way but who would not repent and obey. It is also for those who did repent, baptized and started on the road of obedience to YAHWEH but then gave up, quit or just turned from YAHWEH’s way and began to sin willfully after they had come to the knowledge of the truth. These people sear their conscience or harden their hearts and live in willful sin, this is the unpardonable sin. For if we sin willfully after we have receive the knowledge of the truth , there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Hebrew 10:26-27.
The third resurrection would include those in this category and those who will not repent and obey during the Millennium. All will be resurrected and or cast into the lake of fire to die the second death which is eternal death, those who rebel against YAHWEH will be burned alive in this lake of fire which will spread around the entire earth destroying every vestige of man’s physical achievement and environment with its fervent heat.
But those who are counted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage , nor can die anymore, for they are equal to the cherubs [angels] and are sons of YAHWEH, being sons of the resurrection. But even Moshe showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called YAHWEH ‘the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac and the Elohim of Jacob.’ For He is not Elohim of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him. Luke 20:35-38. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Yahshua Messiah. Galatians 3:28.
The conditions to entering that glorious and glorified kingdom is to repent your ways, your thoughts and the ways of this world. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 16:25. Believe the Gospel, believe on Messiah as your personal Savior. Blessed are those are called to the marriage super of the Lamb and he sad to me, “these are the true sayings of YAHWEH.” Revelation 19:9. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, Master Yahshua Messiah who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20-21. The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of YAHWEH and of His Messiah and He shall reign forever and ever. Revelation 11:15.
At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the Book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth [grave] shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:1-2.