149 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 13 - First Resurrection

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 13 FIRST RESURRECTION - "WHO GOES INTO KINGDOM:" GENTILE BELIEVERS Revelation 20 I think there are many Bible believers who read their Bible, but they just don't understand what they're reading. Well back to Revelation. Let's continue with our study in Revelation. In the last lesson we were in Chapter 20 and verse 6, but I would like to come back for a moment to verse 1 for a very short review, so we won't lose track of how we have arrived at some of these points in time. The Old Testament speaks of the Kingdom. Jesus spoke of the Kingdom. Paul makes reference to the Kingdom, but not in a time frame. Now it's put into a time frame that we can understand. Here in verse 1: Revelation 20:1,2 Now look in these next few verses how many times by (inspiration of the Holy Spirit) the term 1000 years is brought out. Revelation 20:3 Now in verse 4, John sees believers who have been resurrected, and brought up into the very heaven of the heavens. Revelation 20:4,5 After our last lesson, when I was teaching on the resurrection, I had a person tell me during our break that I had lost them in explaining the resurrection. So looking at verse 5 again, I want to make sure you understand these resurrections. You always need to remember that there are only two groups of people so far as God is concerned. So if the saved are already resurrected and are in the Lord's presence, then the rest of the dead would have to be whom? The lost. Revelation 20:14 "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, this is the second death." We will be teaching this in future lessons. The Great White Throne Judgment. But just to show you now that the two resurrections are separated by a thousand years, we have the resurrection of the just as Jesus talked about in John Chapter 5, when they will all be resurrected before the Kingdom begins. The lost have died physically but now they are going to experience spiritual death, their separation from God forever. Here you have these two great groups of humanity, the saved who are resurrected in stages before the Kingdom begins. Come back to verse 6 in Chapter 20. So in this first resurrection: Revelation 20:6 "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection (the resurrection of all the believers, Old Testament, Church Age and Tribulation): on such the second death (as we saw in verse 14) hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Revelation 20:7 Out of the first seven verses here in Chapter 20, a thousand years is mentioned six times. II Peter 3:8 When we first started teaching Revelation, I think I made the point that all the seeds that are finally coming to fruition here in Revelation were sown in the Book of Genesis. Six days and God got everything ready for mankind. A Jubilee was fifty years. And every fiftieth year was called the year of Jubilee. According to God's Law, when He started dealing with the Nation of Israel, the year of Jubilee was the year of new beginnings. We are living in exciting times. It could happen at any time. Come back to Revelation 20:6 again: Revelation 20:6 "...but they (resurrected believers) shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years," This is the first resurrection. The great resurrection Chapter, where the Apostle Paul deals with Resurrection in plain simple language. I Corinthians 15:20 "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits (plural) of them that slept (or have died)," I Corinthians 15:21 "For since by man came death, by man..(as he points out in verse 47)," I Corinthians 15:47 "The first man is of the earth, earthy (Adam): the second man is the Lord (Christ) from heaven." Now let's look at verse 21 again: "For since by man came death (by Adam), by man (the second man or Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead." You know I have never heard of a religion in the world which teaches resurrection as Christianity understands it. They all speak of a life hereafter, but they don't teach resurrection as part of their salvation like Christianity does. Resurrection is very unique. Jesus called him forth from the grave, but he wasn't resurrected. As I stressed back in Genesis, when God breathed into man and he became a living soul, that separated man from all the other categories of life. I know there are groups that teach that when a lost person dies they are annihilated. Now for a brief moment turn to the Book of Leviticus Chapter 23. Leviticus 23:9,10 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, `Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:'" #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible