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The Three Mass Resurrections of the Dead

FIRST:

John 5:25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and the ones hearing shall live.”

“Hearing” here is meant according to the Hebrew verb shâmăh, which implies, besides hearing, also receiving and obeying the message heard. That message was the “Gospel [Jesus] preached to those who were dead,” “to the spirits in prison [Hades/Sheol],” when He “descended into the lower parts of the earth.” 1 Pet. 4:6; 3:19; Eph. 4:9; cf. Acts 2:27, 31; Luke 4:18

Those in Hades who heard, received, and obeyed – and thus lived – “[came] out of the graves after His resurrection…and appeared unto many.” This was because they, having become members of “[His] church…the gates of Hades [could] not prevail against [them]” to keep them in that soul-prison. Matt. 27:53; 16:18

This was the first mass resurrection of the dead, for those of the hour of the First Coming of Christ

SECOND:

John 5:28 “Do not marvel at this; for an hour comes in which all the ones in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth: the ones having done good things to a resurrection of life, but the ones having done evil things to a resurrection of condemnation.”

At this time, which follows “a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation” – the Great Tribulation (Dan. 12:1-2; Matt. 24:21) – the message heard will be a “keleusmati/shout of command.” 1 Thes. 4:16 That command is something all the dead – as well as all the living – will be made to hear, receive, and obey. That order/command will require all, living and dead, to lift up their faces – for however briefly that may be – toward the universal vision of “Him who sits on the [heavenly] throne [of judgment] and…the Lamb” (Rev. 6:16); the Lamb here being “the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power [the Father], and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Matt. 26:64

This will be the second mass resurrection of the dead, of those of the hour of the Second Coming of Christ.

I give it as my opinion that “all in the graves” must “come forth” in order to empty Hades/Hell, so that the Millennial Age will be able to begin with a clean slate, so to speak. Of course, Hades will not remain empty for long: it will thereafter begin to receive the souls of the wicked who die from that time forth, up until the end of the Millennium. That age-end will bring the THIRD and final resurrection from Hades, followed by its destruction. These things are described in Revelation 20:11-14, which tells of the concluding Great White Throne Judgment of God, when the present earth comes to its end.

Now, what is to become of the re-embodied souls of the wicked during the Millennium? I believe the answer is found in Matthew 13, Isaiah 66, and Revelation 14:

Matthew 13:41 “The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

Isaiah 66:24 “And [people] shall go forth and look at the carcasses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worms shall not die, and their fire is not quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

Revelation 14:9 “…if anyone worships the Beast… 10 …he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone… 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever, and they have no rest day or night…”

The likely place for this will be in Edom (southern Jordan and northwestern Saudi Arabia):

Isaiah 34:8 It is the Day of the LORD’s vengeance. … 9 [Edom’s] streams shall be turned into [flowing] asphalt, and its dust into brimstone; its land shall become burning asphalt. 10 It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall ascend forever. Cf. Jer. 49:13, 17; Joel 3:19; Enoch 89:34-37 (Laur.)/90:25-27 (Ch.).