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RESURRECTIONS AND JUDGMENTS<br />

M.M.NINAN<br />

who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.<br />

These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the<br />

glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired<br />

among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.<br />

Here is the third stage of the First <strong>Resurrection</strong>:<br />

THE GLEANINGS<br />

Then we see the resurrection of the saints of the period of tribulation as and when they<br />

are martyred or dead<br />

These references [Luke 14:1-14; Php. 3:10-14; John 5:28-29; Rev. 20:6+] show that there is a<br />

part of the resurrection program that is called “the resurrection of the just,” the “resurrection from<br />

the dead,” “a better resurrection,” “the resurrection of life,” and “the first resurrection.” These<br />

phrases suggest a separation; a resurrection of a portion of those who are dead, which<br />

resurrection leaves some dead unchanged while these resurrected undergo a complete<br />

transformation.( J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology (Grand<br />

Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958), 396.)<br />

(Rev 11:3-12) And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two<br />

hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two<br />

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