| Dan. 12:2 and the Pre-Great Tribulation Resurrection and Rapture |
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Daniel 12:1-2 Meanwhile, Dan. 12:6-7 makes it clear that the events of Dan. 12:1-2 (the Resurrection events of the Righteous and the Unrighteous, etc.) with respect to this particular Passage MUST be completed no later than by the end of the time, times and a half.
Daniel 12:6-7
Therefore, the Resurrection events of Dan. 12:2 must occur at the SAME - ‘AT THAT TIME’ (pre-GT). Why? The dead of Dan. 12:2 will BOTH raise TOGETHER (AT THAT TIME) Righteous and Unrighteous – No thousand years gap thus, NOT at two different time intervals. In Dan. 12:1-2 we find AT THAT TIME where the Hebrew word for ‘time’ is eth is used as a singular and denotes a singular specific time and NOT a plural ‘times’. If there is a 1000 years gap between those that raise to everlasting life and those that raise to everlasting shame and contempt in Dan. 12:2 then that would be TWO specific periods of time. However, the dead following the GT of Rev. 20:4-5 raise SEPERATLY – The Righteous dead at the end of the GT and the Unrighteous dead 1000 years later. To this end, how can the ‘Unrighteous dead’ then of Dan. 12:2 be the SAME as the ‘Unrighteous dead’ of Rev. 20:5 seeing that the ‘Unrighteous dead’ of Rev. 20:5 do not rise TOGETHER with the Righteous GT dead – the Unrighteous GT dead as stated rise 1000 years later. Moreover, if the Resurrection of the Unrighteous dead of Dan. 12:2 occurs at the end of the Great Trib. then this is in direct conflict with Rev. 20:5 which declares those Unrighteous dead will not live again for 1000 years. In summary, to reiterate Dan. 12:6-7 reveals that the Resurrection events, the Deliverance, etc. of Dan. 12:1-2 MUST all be fulfilled/completed no later than the ending of the time, times, and half time (GT). To this end, there can be NO 1000 years Resurrection gap between the Resurrection of the Righteous dead and the Unrighteous dead with respect to Dan. 12:2. Jesus Himself declared the same:
John
5:28-29 (emphasis added)
Thus, the conclusion is this - there must be a Resurrection ‘event’ before the GT of BOTH the Righteous dead and the Unrighteous dead (Dan. 12:2) followed by a Resurrection event after the GT of the Righteous GT Martyrs ONLY (Rev. 20:4) whereas the Unrighteous dead following the GT will rise 1000 years later (Rev. 20:5). Please note: there are ONLY 2 Biblical Resurrections – the 1st Righteous and the 2nd Unrighteous however, there are several ‘getting up’ events with respect to and comprising each of the two Resurrections. Finally, short of any unwise theological attempts to both mutilate and disembowel the above stated Scriptures their interpretative summary is straight forward – there will be a pre-Great Tribulation Resurrection/Rapture. |