Resurrection

So about a dozen of us were sitting around and the topic or the resurrection came up.  Not sure why, I think one of the people were working on issues surrounding death.  I think with his aging folks, it is playing upon his mind ...

So, you live your life ... and you wake up dead ...
Yeah, you don't go to sleep, you are summoned before Jesus.
And then what?

Well, we know that to be absent from the body is to be present with Jesus.
We know that one criminal on the cross was told he would be in Paradise with Jesus, that day.
So, how is it we can be with Jesus, before God, and there is still a resurrection?

In Matthew 27:52, dead believers (Jews at this time) have arisen from their graves and were seen walking around Jerusalem.  Presumatively, they were put back to death.  We have writings that the Rabbis had those raised from death, such as Lazarus, hunted down and disposed of.  Which is to say a "natural" death, such as being stranded in a sinking boat while bound.  Yeah, natural.

For us, as Christians, post Jesus resurrection,
Luke 14:14
John 5:28-29

We have a resurrection of the bad, whom at taken to judgement and then there are the Just, well they are raised up to life.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

Dead arise from the grave and the living are caught up in the air.

Revelation 20:4

Dead in Christ (Messiah) are raised to rule with Him for 1000 years.

Revelation 7:9-14

The affliction we are rescued from.

And, Revelation 20:11-15, the white throne judgement, rapture, the left behind, the  saved during the tribulation.  Depressing when you understand the future for mankind and its pride with which it stands before God - to the point of even blaming Him for their affection due to their own deeds!

Well, just a continuation of yesterday's thought and how a random conversation turned into an interest study ...