The First Resurrection!

 

The First Resurrection!

 

I’ve heard Pastor’s teaching that the First Resurrection is when we become a believer. When we give our life to JESUS and are buried in baptism we are raised to new life we are raised from death. The Scriptures teach this principle, that when we become a believer that we die to ourself, to sin, to the world and we are given a New Life; that we are raised with CHRIST from death to Life; and water baptism represents this.

 

JESUS is the Firstborn from the dead; when we are born again we become a new Creation, John 11:24 (11:17-27), Acts 26:23 (26:19-23), Colossians 1:18 (1:9-18), 1 Corinthians 15:20,23 (15:20-28), Revelation 1:5 (4-8).

But we are still alive in our natural body, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (5:14-21), Romans 8:10 (8:1-11), Galatians 2:20 (11-21).

Our resurrection is not spiritual but spirit, soul and body and that happens at the end of the age, I Corinthians 15:52 (15:50-58), 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (4:9-18), 2 Peter 3:10 (3:10-13), John 3:2 (2:28-3:3), Revelation 20:4-6.

 

The only place in The Bible where the First Resurrection is mentioned is in Revelation; where the angel that CHRIST assigned to give His Revelation to John reveals it as the last event of the Seventh Trumpet Day. “

 

According to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (KJV) these all the occurrences of resurrection in the Bible: Matthew 22:23, 28, 30, 31; 27:53; Mark 12:18, 23; Luke 14:14; 20:27, 33, 35, 36; John 5:29; 11:24, 25; Acts 1:22; 2:31; 4:2, 33; 17:18, 32; 23:6, 8; 24:15, 21; Romans 1:4, 6:5; 1 Corinthians 15:12, 15, 21, 42; Philippians 3:10, 11; 2 Timothy 2:18; Hebrews 6:2; 11:35; 1 Peter 1:3; 3:21; Revelation 20:5, 6.