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Again, WHAT HUMANS?  Humans don't live 1000 years and to have humans having babies then some humans would have had to make it past the return of Christ and since THE ALIVE AND REMAINING are 'changed' aka become angels, and angels don't take or give in marriage THEN WHO would be having any babies???

4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: WHO are the THEY from the verse above? and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

You clearly see ONLY what you want to see... GOD is the God of the Living, not the dead, and we know all those who rise are in spiritual bodies as 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.  20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21  For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. And have PROOF of the resurrection 'of them that slept' happening AT THAT TIME and not in the future  49  The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. 50  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.  You CANNOT change THIS RESURRECTION...which 'bodily' doesn't seem to be much different from THE DEAD RISING at His return, when the LIVING/NEVER DIE will be RETURNING with Him.   22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Clearly you assign this to the 2nd Advent and 2nd Advent only but as far as 'Christs coming' HE SAID 1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.  5  Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. The 'firstfruits' of the harvest wasn't just ONE fruit but many fruits, He, the head, them the body, but I agree, there had to be the One that was first among them.  Why would Christ descend, the beginning of a sacrifice, the Lamb found who washes us clean, LEAVE anyone who repented there to pay the penalty for sin??   I don't think He would as I read   8  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. We have Christ dying to bring in a NEW COVENANT that gives life who then leaves souls in DEATH when they no longer have ANY PENALTY to pay their sins forgiven?  Doesn't make sense.

IMHO: There was a blood moon, as viewed from Jerusalem, when Jesus died (Mark 15:33). There must be a similar blood moon, as viewed from Jerusalem, at the return of Jesus (Acts 2:20).

Clear verse, showing His intention was not to just go TO the cross, but to go THROUGH it.  Without the resurrection, the Church would not have the Spirit of Christ living in it, changing our identity and nature forever!