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Are the Dead Raised at Different Times?

Are the Dead Raised at Different Times?

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Yes. We can list the order of resurrection as follows: 

First fruits: the resurrection of Christ himself and those who came out of their graves at the same time. 

“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the grave after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Matthew 27:52, 53).  

 They that are Christ’s at His coming. 

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17).  

The resurrection of the unrighteous dead at the end of this age. 

“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished …” (Revelation 20:5).  

 The destruction of death itself after the Great White Throne Judgment. 

“And death and hell [Hades or Sheol] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14, 16).  

 The renovation of the heavens and the Earth-the emergence of a new Heaven and a new Earth after purging by fire. 

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: far the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea” (Revelation 21:1). 

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