3 Resurrections
That's 666 YEARS, folks
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Not if scripture doesn't give us any more than the one man Enoch being translated. We can't go any further than scripture gives us leave.LOL. If you allow for at least one exception, then there can be more than just one.
That is NOT just "First". Christ was the "First-fruits". That is an Israelite agricultural term in scripture for a harvest, and it wasn't just a single stalk of grain. "First-fruits" is also the same term applied to the 144,000 who stood WITH the Lamb on Mount Zion together. These were "redeemed from the earth" in a bodily resurrection out of the grave that had rendered them sinless and "without fault". Those 144,000 were the Matt. 27:52-53 saints raised the same day as Christ.I showed where Paul gave the order of resurrections unto bodily immortality and he taught that Christ's was first and next in order are those who belong to Him at His second coming (1 Cor 15:20-23).
Who are we to dictate how Paul should have written his letters to the church? You seem to think that if Paul didn't specifically say the words "Matthew 27:52-53 saints" that this discounts their experience of being resurrected to an immortal and incorruptible body. Paul did refer to these who had already been resurrected. He spoke of them in 1 Thess. 4 as the "alive" and "remaining" ones who would be caught up together with the other newly-resurrected saints to meet the Lord in the air. These were individuals who had already been made "alive"by the bodily-resurrection process, but who had "remained" on the earth until then.If Lazarus or those referenced in Matt 27:52-53 or anyone else who was resurrected in the past was resurrected unto bodily immortality then I'm sure Paul would have referenced that in 1 Cor 15:20-23, but he didn't.
Paul also taught about those "multitude of captives" which the ascending Christ led out of the grave and gave as "gifts to men" in Ephesians 4:8-12. These resurrected "gifts" served as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to edify the members of the early church, to perfect them for the work of the ministry. That was the Matt. 27:52-53 resurrected saints who were charged with those tasks. Theirs was a unique experience (shown by their being the only ones who could "learn that song" which the harpers harped in Rev. 14). These 144,000 First-fruits Matt. 27:52-53 saints were "sealed" in Rev. 7, showing that no harm would come to them while they waited for their eventual transport to heaven in the 1 Thess. 4 "rapture" later on.
You are misquoting Paul. Paul did NOT say that Christ was the first to be raised to bodily immortality. Those are your words. Paul wrote that Christ was the "First-fruits", and this was a harvest of multiple individuals, not just a single person.No, they were not. You are blatantly contradicting what Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 which is that Christ was the first to be raised to bodily immortality and next in order are those who belong to Christ.
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