I was just reading about the 24 Elders around the Throne in heaven ... represents Jacob’s 12 sons of Israel and the other 12 the Apostles of the church. This got me pondering about when the church saints gets their glorified bodies at the rapture ... those believers before the church age will still be without their new bodies. What must they be thinking ... will they be in wonder that the church is a special set apart group? Also when do they receive their new bodies? After the trib or after the millennium? Will they also be assigned job duties during the millennium kingdom and will we see king David also ruling or will it be Jesus alone? 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Daniel 12:12-13 From this, I would gather that Daniel (an Old Testament saint) is to be raised at the end of "the days." I never noticed before, but since the angel just mentioned 1,335 days, that might be the time period being referenced as the time for the O. T. believers to be raised. Very interesting ... 1,277.5 days is 3 1/2 years 2,555 days is 7 years so 1,335 days is 43 months and about 27 days when the O.T. Saints get their new glorified bodies. And I’m assuming the 2 witnesses will get theirs exactly at 1,277.5 marker so the O.T. Saints will have to wait 1 month and 27 days later. When do you think the Tribulation Saints get their glorified bodies? At the same time as the O.T. Saints at the 1,335 days point? I’m trying to study this further and I feel like I opened Pandora’s box :wacko: ... I have more questions ... From “Bible Study Tools” - 20.5.1. Order of Resurrection It says ... “According to Fruchtenbaum, in the Millennial Kingdom, believers never die but sinners die at age 100. This could account for the lack of mention of a post-millennium resurrection of the righteous dead. Death in the millennium will be for unbelievers only. This is why the Bible does not speak of a resurrection of millennial saints, and why the resurrection of the tribulation saints is said to complete the first resurrection (Revelation Rev. 20:4-6+).” - Fair use for information and discussion purposes - ———— My first question is ... will it be only the believing Jews that make it through the tribulation that get ushered into the Millennium Kingdom or will there also be believing Gentiles as well in that group? Then my 2nd question is ... according to Fruchtenbaum ... if these believers are to live a full 1,000 years without dying and do not experience a physical resurrection ... shouldn’t they be receiving a glorified body though at the end of the Millennium? Isaiah 26:19 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. 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. Isaiah has prophesied a sequence of events follows his resurrection. They are: 1/ His resurrection together with others 2/ They enter the chambers, hide themselves for a little while, until the indignation is over. That indignation is 7 years tribulation. 3/ Jesus comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. This is the second coming of Jesus to earth. Following these sequence of events, I say the old testament saints shall receive their resurrection together with the church during rapture.
