You are still not understanding. In the story Jesus gave about Lazarus and the rich man at the end... of Luke 16 (not the Lazarus that was wrapped up and buried in a cave), what happened to the poor beggar Lazarus when he died and was taken by angels to the bosom of Abraham?
Luke 16:22
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
KJV
Do you not see that both Lazarus and the rich man died, literally, and their flesh was buried? Yet they both appeared in Paradise, but not on the same side in Paradise. So what kind of body were they in when they appeared in Paradise? or was our Lord Jesus just fibbing to us about that kind thing of going to Paradise after death of the flesh, and lied also to the malefactor crucified with Him about going to Paradise? (Luke 23:43).
Are you equating Lazarus in the parable with the brother of Mary and Martha?
I think they are.
Jesus called Lazarus back to prove several points. An incorruptible body can happen. The rich man's brothers still would not believe Jesus was the Messiah. But that is just my thoughts.
The reality per God's Word, is that the concept of death has different meaning for different times. For this present world, death is about the death of our flesh body. For the world to come, death is about the "second death", which is destruction of one's spirit/soul in the future "lake of fire". So the term "the dead" is meant differently in that world to come after Lord Jesus returns.
1. flesh death, 1st death = for this present flesh world only
2. "second death" = for the world to come only, the destruction of the spirit/mortal soul.
It's really that simple. There won't be some in resurrected bodies, while others are still in flesh bodies in that world to come. The unsaved will still be spiritually dead in their spirit/soul, not believing on Jesus Christ. The only thing that will have changed is, their flesh will have been cast off.
Thus "the dead" of Rev.20:5 are raised on the day of Christ's return also, which is what the John 5:28-29 is about too.
Just like the allegory Jesus used about the blind Pharisees, how they appeared like whited tombs on the outside, but inside were full of dead men's bones, that was show the concept of being without Christ, one's spirit not born again through His Blood shed on the cross. That is literally what the unsaved are like even now; their souls are still literally dead inside their flesh body without Christ Jesus. That means those are 'spiritually dead' inside. Even when their flesh dies or is cast off on the last day, their spirit with soul is still... spiritually dead and not born again in Christ. That is what "the dead" means in Rev.20:5.
Rom 8:9
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
KJV
Rom 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of Him That raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He That raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.
KJV
So many totally misinterpret that above Romans 8:11 verse about the mortal body being quickened, wrongly thinking Paul was talking about our flesh body. No, he was pointing to our 'spirit' with soul, because that last phrase "that dwelleth in you" isn't about flesh. It's about the spirit/soul that dwells INSIDE our flesh body. What is quickened when we die, or changed on the last day, is our 'spirit' by God's Spirit, not our flesh. This is why Apostle Paul was emphatic that the resurrection is to a "spiritual body", not another flesh body.
I do not see the GWT as being any part of a "world to come". It is the only place judgment is final and those souls are never resurrected bodily, that is only assumed. But I was taught no redemption or escape from the lake of fire when before the GWT. If they are given life, and they ask God to forgive them and not remove their name, why would they not come to life?
But for the most part coming to life to be thrown into the lake of fire is not really a "coming to life" experience. It ends up in Death any way.
I do not accept our spirit is on earth or in us. It is the outer robe, outside of the body. If we had it we would be transfigured and shine like a star. See Revelation 21-22. I accept a dead spirit is a demon, that has been banished from God's presence. Dead, not because it sinned. Dead because a reprobate soul on earth removed all of God's glory and it is dark without any hope of being brought back to God. That is why a demon knows all about God, but cannot return to God. Is that reversible or sinning past a point of no return? The meaning of reprobate is one rejected by God. The GWT is the reunion of a dead soul to a dead spirit, demon.
So if all souls are in that body in the world to come, then the idea of being 'dead' has a different meaning. And so does the idea of 'living' have a different meaning in that time also...
Millennium Timing:
1. being dead = one's spirit/soul is still mortal and liable to die in the "lake of fire" at the "second death", the unsaved of that time.
2. the Living = those who will have put on immortality through Christ Jesus and will never die.
Thus the Revelation 20:5 verse really means, the unsaved, the spiritually dead, will not live again for the thousand years until they 'believe' on Christ Jesus and their soul is born again through Him. This is only hinted at though in Rev.20, because it mentions a FIRST resurrection.
If someone says, the FIRST widget, what do they automatically think of next? the SECOND, or another widget, at least one more after the first for sure! Well what KIND of resurrection was the 1st resurrection per Rev.20? The SAVED, those in Christ!
Likewise at the end of the 1,000 years, there will be at least one more 'resurrection of life' like the 1st one. During the 1,000 years, The Gospel will be accepted by many of those unsaved souls who NEVER had their opportunity to hear during this present world. And especially Israel in part which God blinded away from The Gospel so it would go to the Gentiles, per Romans 11, that will be their first opportunity to 'hear' The Gospel with eyes to see, and ears to hear, and believe. And many of them will believe on Jesus then (end of Zechariah 12).
Preaching and teaching under Jesus our Boss will be the main duty of His elect priests in that time!
Ezek 44:23-25
23 And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments: and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all Mine assemblies; and they shall hallow My sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
KJV
That is why Jesus told His elect of the Church of Philadelphia that He will make those of the "synagogue of Satan" to come worship at the feet of His elect (Revelation 3:9).
For those unsaved that still refuse to believe The Gospel after the thousand years, they instead will choose to perish in the "lake of fire" with Satan, hell, and death.
If you read the 4th seal, Death is introduced. Why is Death distinguished from sheol?
1) There is no hope for the goats, everlasting punishment.
2) There is no hope for the tares, everlasting punishment.
3) There is no hope for those with the mark, who have "sold" their soul to Satan. Revelation 13 and 14 declares those with the mark seemingly exchanged the mark for their name in the Lamb's book of life. You cannot be in the book and have the mark at the same time. Nor if you have the mark, getting your head chopped off, can reverse the process. It is like they were never in the book at all.
After Armageddon, none of Adam's flesh is left on earth. Not because it is the end end. It is the end of Adam's 6000 years of punishment. No more sin nature period. The only humans alive are those resurrected in Revelation 20:4. We know they are at least those without a mark, but beheaded. I do not accept that is all.
We still have sheep gathered after the completion of the church. We still have 144k Jewish male virgins, who follow the Lamb throughout the whole period of Christ on earth during the Trumpets and Thunders. The sheep and the wheat are harvested by the angels and can only be resurrected in the resurrection of Revelation 20:4. Why is the church not part of this resurrection? They live in Paradise and the New Jerusalem. There is still people necessary to populate earth. The church can no longer produce offspring but are now like the angels. No one has been born in Paradise during the last 1990 years, and that does not change after the body is glorified. Paradise does not send babies to populate the earth.
Death as introduced in the 4th seal is the only type of death in the next millennium. Any one who rebels under Christ and His direct rule will be sent to Death, not sheol. There is no return from that Death. After the 6th seal, no more hope for the goats, the tares, and those who take the mark. The church is complete, and grace is at an end. God will choose some, but no one can make that choice for themselves. The only remaining choice and one for eternal life is those beheaded. Revelation 20:4 is only specific on that one final ability to choose. The sheep and wheat do not make a choice either way. They cannot unchoose to be sheep or wheat, because they never had a choice to begin with.
Amil remove these people from type and just put them into Paradise free of choice in the matter, and then claim the earth can never have a population again, because they sent all humanity to heaven and left none on earth. Only two types, heaven or the lake of fire. There cannot be a third type living on earth, per Amil. Evidently not even in the New Earth, because still a third type. The church cannot produce any offspring. The lake of fire cannot produce any offspring. There certainly is never a third group to populate earth.
Their idealism is so far out in left field, there is no Scripture to prove they are wrong or right, thus they think their idealism is untouchable. I agree, even God's Word does not touch it.