Questions about Ezekiel 37:1-14
- Bizarre
as this is, is it worded in figurative language or in literal language?
- It is figurative.
It
is literal.
- Is
God able to raise dead people back to life and give them new bodies ?
Yes.- No.
- Those
of the First Resurrection are raised to life and reign with Christ for
a thousand years, if we take this literal, then is not Ezekiel 37 a description
of this event ?
Yes.- No.
- Those
of the First Resurrection, that are raised to life and reign with Christ
for a thousand years, is it possible that they are given eternal bodies
for only a thousand years ?
- Yes.
No.
- Given
the statement: "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people,
I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring
you back to the land of Israel,." is the land of Israel heaven?
- Yes.
No.
Questions about Matthew 22:23-33
- Did
the Sadducees believe that there was going to be a literal resurrection?
- Yes.
No.
- What
was Jesus' reply to them regarding this subject?
- People will not marry in heaven because they will not have bodies.
- Jesus said that there will be only one resurrection on the last day.
Jesus
rebuked them saying: "You are in error because you do not know the
Scriptures or the power of God."- Jesus said that when people die they go to heaven and become angels.
- Given
that Revelation 20 speaks of the "First" resurrection, is there
a second resurrection?
Yes.- No.
- This
passage in Matthew 22 is speaking of which resurrection?
- The first.
The
second.
- When
Jesus said that in the resurrection man will be like the angels in heaven,
what did he mean?
- We will be angels.
- We will be spirit beings like angels.
- He said that like the angels we shall not be male and female.
- He meant that we will have angel like powers in heaven.
Both
(b.) and (c.) above.
- When
are Christians resurrected?
- They are never resurrected.
- They are resurrected at the first resurrection.
- They are resurrected at the second resurrection on the last day.
- They are resurrected at the rapture.
They
are resurrected in the resurrection of Jesus Christ