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Bible Question: What is the difference between Lazarus being raised from the dead,and he died again and Jesus being raised yet He continue to live. Is there a difference in their resurrection, if so what's the name. Thanks Eugean

Bible Answer: I read the other answer that you received, and I think it was very helpful. However, there is a clarification that I want to add. In the resurrection, we will have our own (same) physical bodies, but they will be spiritual rather than fleshly, as Christ's body was spiritual (and could walk through walls, appear and disappear from sight, yet consume food) at the time of His resurrection. I believe that no one's body was physically resurrected prior to Christ, including that of Lazarus (although Elijah and Enoch are puzzling); Jesus our Lord was the first. However, when Christ was raised, other dead saints (holy ones) were raised with Him. (Matt 27:52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.")

Those of us who have died since Christ's resurrection will not be raised again bodily (only the soul) until the time of Christ's return, when our impure and perishable fleshly bodies (whether they have rotted in the earth or been burned to nothingness or not), will be raised and transformed into pure and imperishable spiritual bodies. Those who are still alive at His return will not die, but they will still need to be changed physically. (1 Cor 15:51-54 "Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
"But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.'")

This is the very point that Jesus was making to Lazarus' sister Martha before raising him from the dead. (John 11:25-26 "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?")