Questions about Ezekiel 37:1-14

  1. Bizarre as this is, is it worded in figurative language or in literal language?
    1. It is figurative.
      • No, it is not worded in figurative. Figurative language tells you that it is a sign, or uses words like ,"looks like", or "Sounds like", or speaks of something that cannot be literally true.
      • Revelation 12:1
        A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. (NIV)
      • In this example we are told that it is a sign, and the moon being under her feet cannot literally true, so we know that this is figurative.
      • Basically if a passage can be literal then it usually is. This is not always true, but it usually is.
    2. Right Answer!It is literal.
      • Yes, this language is quite graphic, but is nonfigurative. If we take it to be literally true, then what is get is a graphic description of the first resurrection.

     

     

  2. Is God able to raise dead people back to life and give them new bodies?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes, he is able to do anything, and will do everything that his Words says that he will.
    2. No.
      • No. God CAN do anything.
      • Job 42:2
        "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. (NIV)

     

     

  3. 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?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes, it is.
    2. No.
      • Some contend that the passage in Ezekiel is symbolic for the restoration of the nation of Israel, but I see it as quite literal. This passage uses no figurative language.

     

     

  4. 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?
    1. Yes.
      • No, if they received Spiritual bodies then they would last forever. But we see that they receive flesh and blood bodies.
    2. Right Answer!No.
      • This is the correct answer. They receive flesh and blood bodies and live as men do on the earth.

     

     

  5. 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?
    1. Yes.
      • No, this is speaking of a literal physical Israel.
    2. Right Answer!No.
      • Yes, this is not talking about heaven, but about the literal restoration of the nation of Israel. This nation will be occupied by all twelve tribes of the children of Israel, not just the Jews like in the past.

     

     

    Questions about Matthew 22:23-33

  6. Did the Sadducees believe that there was going to be a literal resurrection?
    1. Yes.
      • No, the text says that they did not.
    2. Right Answer!No.
      • Yes, they did not believe in the resurrection. They did not believe that God could do it.

     

     

  7. What was Jesus' reply to them regarding this subject?
    1. People will not marry in heaven because they will not have bodies.
      • No, he did not say that.
    2. Jesus said that there will be only one resurrection on the last day.
      • No, he did not say that.
    3. Right Answer!Jesus rebuked them saying: "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God."
      • Yes, the Sadducees did not believe that God could do it, and they did not know that he said that he would.
    4. Jesus said that when people die they go to heaven and become angels.
      • He did not say that.

     

     

  8. Given that Revelation 20 speaks of the "First" resurrection, is there a second resurrection?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
      • Yes, on the last day.
    2. No.
      • No, there will be a resurrection on the last day.
      • John 11:24
        Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." (NIV)

     

     

  9. This passage in Matthew 22 is speaking of which resurrection?
    1. The first.
      • No, it is speaking of the second.
    2. Right Answer!The second.
      • Yes, the second, but it really doesn't matter.

     

     

  10. When Jesus said that in the resurrection man will be like the angels in heaven, what did he mean?
    1. We will be angels.
      • No, he didn't say that.
    2. We will be spirit beings like angels.
      • Yes, this is what he meant.
    3. Right Answer!He said that like the angels we shall not be male and female.
      • Yes, this is what he meant.
    4. He meant that we will have angel like powers in heaven.
      1. No, he didn't say anything about that.
    5. Both (b.) and (c.) above.
      • Yes, this is the best answer. While we live on the earth we live in animal bodies and we reproduce as all animals do. Now we have male and female bodies so that reproduction is possible. In heaven we will not be living in animal bodies. We will not have to eat and sleep and such. We will have spirit bodies.
      • 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
        So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
        If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (NIV)

     

     

  11. When are Christians resurrected?
    1. They are never resurrected.
      • No.
    2. They are resurrected at the first resurrection.
      • No, this is not true.
    3. They are resurrected at the second resurrection on the last day.
      • No.
    4. They are resurrected at the rapture.
      • No, that is a catching-up, not a resurrection.
    5. Right Answer!They are resurrected in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
      • Yes, we who are Christians are united to Christ and are resurrected in his resurrection.
      • Romans 6:4
        We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. (NIV)

 

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