Here's my thoughts...
Partial Preterists such as myself understand a somewhat different aspect of resurrection/judgement: the transfer of the OT dead who were being held in Hades/Sheol.
In the same way baptism is related to resurrection (
Romans 6:1-11), so too
was that key event. Christians have never known the precise date at which the OT dead were permitted to exit Sheol.
Eternal life was granted to the whole body of the saints at AD 70, both the dead and the living. All were changed positionally into redeemed sons of God. The dead, however, were raised out of Hades in the blink of an eye at AD 70 and into Heaven. The living now never experience biblical death as did the O.T. saints up to AD 70.
Nearly all Christian groups agree that the dead of Hades exited that place somewhere in the first century, so such a belief is clearly not a Full Preterist Belief.
I am merely pinpointing what I believe was the precise timing and the reason for that timing.
1 Cor. 15:54-56 plainly says that the victory for the dead was over the OT Hades (see literal greek). Moreover, it says that the very thing that had been holding the dead apart from victory was The Law (of Moses). Therefore, this entirely supports the argument that 1 Thess 4 is speaking about the OT dead in Hades who had to await the full end of the Old Covenant age before they would have victory over Hades, where they were at that time residing.
Typically, partial preterists say they expect the following events at some far distant time in the future:
*Resurrection of the Dead
*Final Judgment
*Final Coming of Christ
I believe Rev 20:12-15 is parallel to 1 Cor 15:55-56:
1 Corinthians 15:54-56
then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written,
'The Death was swallowed up in victory where, O Death, is thy sting? Where,O HADES is thy victory?' And the sting of the death is sin, AND THE POWER OF SIN IS THE LAW
--COMPARE TO--
Revelation 20:12-14
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne...and the dead were judged...
and DEATH and HADES gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. THEN DEATH AND HADES WERE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Therefore any partial preterist who thinks Rev 20 is past, then they must concede that 1 Cor 15:55-56 is past.
Follow?
I believe Partial Preterists such as Dr. Scott Hahn hold these as fulfilled; Like partial preterist me, if he does, then he holds to a separate, future to us, resurrection of the dead that is STRICTLY from creeds and not scripture.
What does scripture teach about the Biblical resurrection of the dead?
(1) Resurrection was
"about to" happen in Paul's lifetime --
"there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous" (Acts 24:15).
(2) Paul expected that he and the first-century Thessalonians
would remain alive unto the resurrection --
"we who are living, who do remain over to the presence of the Lord, may not precede those asleep" (1 Thess 4:15)
(3) Resurrection involved the defeat of
HADES/PURGATORIO (the place of the OT dead), which was tied to
end of the Mosaic Law era --
"then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory; where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?' and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law" (1 Cor 15:54-56)
(4) Resurrection is always for "
the dead," and it involves
heavenly, spiritual bodies --
"it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body...and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly." (1 Cor 15:44,49)
As the Creeds teach a future to us Resurrection/Judgement, and I as a Catholic hold the creeds as authoritative, I affirm a future, separate resurrection/Judgement that the Biblical resurrection/Judgement that took place in the 1st century likely prefigures.
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