Yes there is a time coming when all the dead will rise. But Jesus didn't say all at once. We assume that!
and you need to read REv. 20 again!
Why do I need to read it again when I've already read it a thousand times? But, not literally a thousand times.
If Jesus is the first resurrection, then the second resurrection which occurs 1,000 years after Jesus returns holds massive problems.
No, it really doesn't and you definitely didn't do anything to show that. You need to use scripture to make your arguments. Your opinions are not convincing at all.
For it is the second resurrection and all the rest of the dead who are resurrected in that resurrection, the 2nd death has authority over them.
When will believers who would die during a future thousand year earthly millennial kingdom be resurrected? Would the second death have power over them? Where does scripture speak of their resurrection?
Was Jesus mistaken when he said an hour/time was coming when all of the dead would be raised (John 5:28-29)? Did He mean to say two hours/times were coming when the dead would be raised?
Why does scripture say that God has appointed a day to judge the world (Acts 17:30-31) if there are going to be 2 days when He will judge the world (I assume you don't believe Matthew 25:31-46 is the same judgment as Rev 20:11-15)?
Scripture teaches that all of the unsaved will be killed when Christ returns (2 Peter 3:3-13, Matt 24:35-39, 1 Thess 5:1-6, 2 Thess 1:7-10, etc.). How do you reconcile this with your view that there will be mortals to populate an earthly kingdom when Christ returns?
IOW if jesus resurrection (which Jesus wasn't the first, ther was Lazarus, the widow womans and a few OT resurrections) is the first resurrection, then we are all lost!
You have no idea of what you're talking about. You say His wasn't the first resurrection? Why are you denying what scripture teaches?
Acts 26:23 That
Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
So, He was the first to rise from the dead and we are not lost because of it despite your false claim. We are rather saved because of it! Obviously, His resurrection was not literally the first because, as you pointed out, Lazarus and some others rose from the dead before Jesus did. So, what does it mean for Him to be the first to rise from the dead (the first resurrection)? In what sense was He the first?
1 Cor 15:20 But
now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death......50 Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So
when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory.
This shows the context of Christ being the first to rise from the dead. He was the first to rise from the dead unto bodily immortality. Notice verse 23. Christ's was the first resurrection and next in order are those "that are Christ's at His coming". When Christ returns at the last trumpet that will be "the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father". That will be when the last enemy, death, is "swallowed up in victory" and defeated and destroyed as there will then be no more death after that (Rev 21:4 - Isaiah 25:8).
So you believe that ethereal souls will reign with Christ? Sounds kind of JW to me.
What are you talking about? I am not a Jehovah's Witness, I am a Christian. Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult. Are you suggesting that I am part of a cult? Do you believe in the false doctrine of soul sleep? You apparently do. If so, you are sadly mistaken.
Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush
God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal,
I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And
they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
The souls of dead believers are conscious in heaven. If they weren't then God wouldn't be their God as He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You, therefore, do greatly err in your apparent belief in soul sleep.