The End Times: what I don't believe [Evangelical Dispensationalism and the Jews]

Israel Insider ^ | November 30, 2006 | Stan Goodenough

[Crush T Velour]

I think that if you look again, you'll see the first resurrection doesn't take place til after the millenial reign of Jesus...

Okay, I'll look again...(thumbing through Revelation)...Errr, no.

Revelation 19 relates Jesus's return and His war against "the beast" (v 19). Then the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire (v 20). Then Satan is "into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled" (20:3).

Then "the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and [those]which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands...lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." (20:4)

So much for the claim that there will be no Christians during the Tribulation.

Then 20:5 says " But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection."

No this is quite clearly just prior to the Millenium.

[Steel-toed-Consevative]

I appreciate your sentiments and thoughts on this matter. I was once a "pre-tribber" and still am a pre-millenialist. However, I have in recent years come to the conclusion (from scripture) that the tribulation will not be aimed at the Jews primarily, but at Christians. The idea that we are somehow entitled to escape such fierce persecution when those who were closest to Christ, historically, were hunted and crucified, etc. is pure delusion.