Even the the KJV states A resurrection of the dead, BOTH of the just and unjust. No difference between the other versions. Paul could not have been hoping to be resurrected during the 2nd resurrection because that resurrection takes place after the millennium. When Jesus returns to earth at the 1st resurrection we know he will gather the saints both the living and the dead ones, so we automatically know Paul hoped to be included in that group - IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION - which contains both the just and unjust. In that first resurrection, all the just persons including Paul are judged to a resurrection of life while the unsaved/unjust are raised to a resurrection of judgment.
After the 1,000 years are completed there is another judgment at the GWT when those who lived and died during the millennium are judged.
You're getting something jumbled up. John 5 describes 2 resurrections, a resurrection of life and a resurrection of judgement. Revelation 20:4-6 describes the same, the blessed and holy first resurrection (of life), and after the 1000 years, a resurrection and the Great White Throne of Judgement (the resurrection of Judgement).
Is the first resurrection blessed and holy if the unsaved and wicked are also raised in it? The 2nd death has no power over those who take part in the first resurrection. That cannot include unsaved unjust people.
You brought up John 5 so I want to take a closer look at this. if nothing else, I thank you and thank God for the opportunity to look into this scripture because I hadn't recognized this before when reading it.
John 5:24-26
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
This describes the resurrection of life, the first resurrection, for those that hear His words and believe on Him. Those are the dead that respond to the first resurrection, hearing the voice of Jesus. This is not everyone, this is the saved.
Now the second part,
John 5:27-29
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Wow.. it wasn't Jesus simply restating what He'd said in the first part after all, but rather Jesus stating 2 separate events. A first resurrection of those who hear His words and believe on Him, and a second resurrection afterwards that includes everyone, some which are justified (who I take to be people who got saved after the rapture and during the millennium) who go to a resurrection of life, and the rest.. the resurrection of damnation. But the judgement comes with the second resurrection, rather than the first.
That is amazingly consistent with Revelation 20, is it not?
as for the words of Paul in Acts, he does say A resurrection but not that there's only 1 resurrection. Not when comparing scripture with scripture you can see 2 resurrections.
Now Hebrews 9:27 says that we're appointed to die just once, and after that is judgement, eternal life, or second death. So by "
a resurrection of the dead", could just mean that we will only be resurrected just once, not resurrected to die, then be resurrected again to die, and then be resurrected to die again etc.
This is another interesting theological idea, what about people like Lazarus, that were resurrected by Jesus already? I think maybe He was taken bodily into heaven after being resurrected by Jesus, because the bible never details on whether he died a second time. This would make it consistent with Hebrews 9:27, which is also part of why I think the 2 witnesses will be Enoch and Elijah, because they went bodily into heaven, and have not died their appointed time. The 2 witnesses will be killed, so unless God is allowing for someone to die multiple times, I believe the plan was for Elijah and Enoch to die their one appointed time in Jerusalem in the last days. Wouldn't that be something? What a long sighted plan, to take Enoch up specifically for this purpose in the future thousands of years later?