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NASB | Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; Their dead bodies will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead. [Ezek 37:11, 12] |
Bible Question: How does one explain the apparent contradiction between scripture that states those in Christ will rise first, referring to resurrection, and the popular Christian teaching that when a Christian dies, he or she is immediately in the presence of Christ heaven? |
Bible Answer: This is not a contradiction is is a misunderstanding of what happens at death. Charis has it right. When we die our spirit is immediatly with God. However we are bodyless, our bodies are reunited with us later. 6For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words. The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. Jesus said to the theaf on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise". But Christ is the first one to have been resurrected. 1 Cor 15 20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. Christ is the firstfruit of the resurrection he is the first to have a new body. Notice the verse: 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. Notice "together with my dead body shall they arise" This verse is a prohecy speaking of what would happen b/c of the resurrection of Jesus. Resurrection is different from our spirit being with God. Hope this helps |