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NASB | Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 20:5 The rest of the dead [the non-believers] did not come to life again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. |
Subject: First resurrection happens twice |
Bible Note: Good Lord's day to you Ed O, On your final comment ... "Now we can play around much with the meaning of words but I hardly believe that God wanted us to become Greek scholars. Sometimes it's better for us to be less intellectual and rely on common sense wouldn't you think so?" I am not a Greek (or Hebrew) scholar, but I do look up the English words in the original ... even if all the translations agree ... if I want to learn more. Both times the word in this verse, the Greek is tereo which is translated in the KJV : keep (57x), reserve (8x), observe (4x), watch (2x), preserve (2x), keeper (1x), hold fast (1x). Moreover ... just in this verse I read "you have kept the word" and "will keep you from" ... so even with that it is hard for me to think we will be taken out of the tribulation. On "rely on common sense" ... what is your basis? Even if you have studied the three views, it could be clouded by what someone else has said. My theology has changed in several areas ... sometimes when I hear something new or when I am meditating on the Word and I have a "wait a minute" prompting. Either way I investigate Scripture. When He comes relative to the tribulation is a minor point and should not divide us. The major point is that He is coming ... quickly ... in the next century or so. S |