Resurrections

1. The First Fruits
   Christ, then firstfruit saints
   • 1 Corinthians 15:23: But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.
   • Matthew 27:52-53: The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
2. The Harvest or Ingathering (Rapture)
   • 1 Corinthians 15:51-54: Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
   • Dead in Christ will rise first, 1 Thessalonians 4:16: For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
   • Then those alive who are left, 1 Thessalonians 4:17: After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
3. The Gleanings (Tribulation Saints)
   • Revelation 7:14: And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
   • Revelation 20:4: I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
4. The Tares (Wicked Dead)
   Matthew 13:28-30: “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
   “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
   1. Firstfruits: Antichrist and False Prophet
   2. Harvest: the lost
   3. Gleanings: Millennium lost

Source: Bible Book of Lists at www.SusanCAnthony.com