oatmeal
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When dead people are raised what should we call it if not a resurrection?
Lazarus was raised from the dead, scriptures do not call that a resurrection.
Lazarus was raised from the dead, he was not part of a resurrection.
Jesus Christ and other men of God are recorded to have raised people from the dead, however, which one of those records are referred to as resurrections? They were simply raised from the dead to live a longer time in order to fulfill their lives.
God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, however, that is called a resurrection. For his raising was far more significant than being simply raised from the dead as was Lazarus or Tabitha, or the Shumanite woman's son. Philippians 3:10
There are first and second resurrections that is recorded in the book of Revelation. It is also called the resurrection of the just and the second is called the resurrection of the unjust.
Paul refers to attaining to the resurrection of the dead, Philippians 3:11, but this event is not an anastasis nekron, but an exanastasis nekron, an outresurrection of or from the dead. EW Bullinger says it means an outresurrection from the dead, meaning that not all involved in the even are being resurrected, ie, the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up in the air with him and so shall we ever be with the lord. I Thessalonians 4:13-17
This event is not simply a raising from the dead of one individual, it is far more significant than that for it marks the end of this age of grace and the beginning of the events leading up to the new heavens and earth.
Likewise, I Thessalonians 4:13-18 (as well as the related scriptures in I Corinthians 15, Romans 8 and other places in the church epistles) is the event that saves us from the wrath to come, Romans 5:9, I Thessalonians 1:10. We will be gone and with the lord, thus we will not be subject to the wrath to come. We were not only saved from our sins, but from the wrath to come.
What is the value of being saved from our sins if we would still be subject to the wrath to come because of our sins?
Saving us from our sins therefore includes us being saved from the wrath to come.
Romans 5:9
I Thessalonians 1:10