"THE FIRST RESURRECTION HAS BEEN!
Some Preachers Teach Otherwise
Most of the preachers of today teach that the first resurrection is yet to come in the future. I say this is untrue. If I could not give Bible quotations to prove I am right, I would not have made the above statement. When Jesus arose from the dead, many bodies of the saints arose and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many. I will give you where this was prophesied of. Isaiah 26:19th verse will show you. "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." Hosea 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." This will show you that this was prophesied of before it happened. Matthew 27:52 "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." This shows you that the above prophesy was fulfilled.
Revelation 14th Chapter, beginning at the 1st verse, will show you just how many arose with Jesus: 1 "And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four
thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God."
Isaiah 26:19 says: "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:" In the 14th chapter of Revelation this prophesy was fulfilled. They sang a new song and no man could learn this song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth. This word "were" is in the past tense. When the book of Revelations was written this had already happened. If you will notice they followed the Lamb wheresoever he goeth and you know he went to heaven. You also know Hosea said they would live together in his sight. This hundred and forty and four thousand is the bride of God. This is the predestinated crowd you will find in Romans 8:29: "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. When this hundred and forty and four thousand was glorified, God changed headquarters from natural Jerusalem which was under bondage with her children to spiritual Jerusalem which is above which is the mother of us all. As you will find in Galatians 4:25th - 26th verses. No one could have been born again unless this hundred and forty and four thousand had been resurrected. Because God didn't have a bride. As you will find in Isaiah 50:1st verse, where he had put away the Jew for their disobedience. God had to raise up this hundred and forty and four thousand. These were from the twelve tribes of Jacob. God raised them up to be his bride. This is the predestinated crowd. This is from the righteous seed, which is Jacob. They were Holy from their mothers' womb. They never did commit sin. The wicked are from Esau, which is the wicked seed.
You will find what I mean by the foreknowledge or the predestinated. Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." The word said, "Blessed and holy is he who has a part in the first resurrection". What makes us holy is having a part in Jesus Christ. He is the resurrection and he is the life. He hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. If there hasn't been a resurrection our hope is dead and we are all still in sin.
The above word is sufficient to convince all honest people that there has been a resurrection. This hundred and forty and four thousand never was defiled with women. Since the days of Christ, we have all sinned. No man since the days of Christ could possibly be in the number that wasn't defiled with women, because all men have lusted after women. Lusting after women since the days of Christ is the same as committing the very act before Christ. I want every one who reads this to consider what I say, and the Lord will give you understanding in all things.
This bible subject is from the book "NOTICE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" by C.T. Pratt - Founder...written in 1948.
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