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48 JESUS IS COMING.

in Christ that are His at His coming, will be raised out of
the dead, and the rest of the dead will be left until another
and final resurrection, and the Millennium will occur be-
tween these two resurrections, thus clearly showing Christ's
coming to be pre-millennial.
We believe that any unprejudiced mind will be con-
vinced of this by simply reading the following passages:
Order of the Resurrection.
1 Cor. 15:22-26. For as in Adam all die, even so In Christ
shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order.
Christ the first fruits; afterwards they that are Christ's at
His coming. Then (or afterwards) the end* The last
enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Dead in Christ Rise First.
1 Thes. 4:13-17. But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow
not, even as others which have no hope. For IF WE BELIEVE
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him For the Lord
Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the
dead in Christ shall rise first.
The First Resurrection.
Rev. 20:4-14. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon
them.... and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of God, and
which had not worshipped the beast .... and they lived
and reigned with Christ a thousand years. BUT THE REST
OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS
WERE FINISHED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the FIRST RESURRECTION,
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a
thousand years. And when the thousand years are ex-
pired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go
out to deceive the nations And I saw a GREAT WHITE
THRONE, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth
* The Greek tiro, (ita) here signifies next in order, but not
necessarily immediate, as will be seen i>y the use of the
same word in Mark 4:17, 28; 1 Tim. 2:13. And in this same
chapter (vs. 5-7), it is used interchangeably with ivtim (epita).
This fact seems to have been altogether overlooked by Post-
millenniaWsts who have therefore entirely misconstrued the
passage.
When the Holy Spirit means immediately He uses efavrij*,
tvuius or trapaxpi}/** See Acts 10:33; Mat. 4:22; Luke 1:64, etc.