Page 19 - 20 The First & Second Resurrections

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
Lest anyone should say that if we render the

passage “and whosoever had not worshiped

the beast,” we thereby include millions of

heathen and sinners who have not worshiped

the beast, and promise them a reign with

Christ of a thousand years, we would call

attention to the fact that the preceding

chapter states that the wicked had all been

slain, and the seal of death has been set upon

them for a thousand years; and John is viewing

only the righteous company who have part in

the first resurrection.

To avoid the doctrine of two resurrections,

some claim that the passage, “But the rest of

the dead lived not again until the thousand

years were finished,” is an interpolation, not

found in the original, and hence not genuine.

Even if this were so, it would not disprove the