Rev 20
5 But
the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This
is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy
is he who has part in the first resurrection.
Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
And of course these texts become easier to understand once we accept those texts as they read.
1 Tim 6:
14 that you keep
this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time,
He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light,
Also the 1Thess 4 rapture text just as it reads.
1Thess 4
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him
those who sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede
those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And
the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then
we who are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And
thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
John 11
11 These things He said, and after that He said to them, “
Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that
I may wake him up.”
12 Then His disciples said, “
Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.” 13 However,
Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “
Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”
In the actual Bible the body returns to dust - annihilated - and the spirit/soul is that which returns to God. 1 Cor 15 says that the old decayed body that is laid to rest - is not what is raised - rather we are given a new body at the resurrection - 2Cor 5:1-3 says it is made in heaven for us - and is not the decaying tent that was sown.
speaking only of the physical body that dies - the "decaying tent" of 2Cor 5. (But not the soul, not the spirit)
Dictionary:
Annihilate -
to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly:
"The heavy bombing annihilated what was left of the city."
In physics at the subatomic particle level there is also the idea of converting matter into energy.
Which is never the context used in the Bible.
speaking only of the physical body that dies -
Ps 90:3
You turn man
back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”
Gen 3
By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For
you are dust,
And
to dust you shall return
The physical body that is joined with the spirit/soul at the bodily resurrection is not the "old decaying" and decrepit body that was sown just as we are informed in 2Cor 5:1-3. Rather it is an entirely new one.
So you don't believe that the body that returned to dust (which doesn't mean annihilated) can be reunited by God with the soul? Then why are their human people (body and soul) in heaven?
You are not following the point. The physical body that is joined with the soul/spirit at the bodily resurrection of the saints - is not the old decayed body that they had at death. See 2Cor 5:1-4
Matt 17 has humans physically raised to life and Eph 4 says they were taken bodily to heaven just as Christ was taken bodily to heaven - and so also Moses according to the book the "Assumption of Moses" also quoted in the book of Jude.
1 Cor 15
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And
with what kind of body do they come?” 36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; 37 and
that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But
God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one
flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the
glory of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable
body, it is raised an imperishable
body; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual
body.
