1 Peter 1:21 doesn't mean that these things happened all at once.
Yes, it does mean that. Christ was in His glorified flesh-and-bones body the moment He awakened to life again in the tomb. Christ said the same thing to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus when He asked them, "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, AND TO ENTER INTO HIS GLORY?" This was spoken by Christ that same day of His resurrection, when He had already by then "entered into His glory" in Luke 24:26.
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John 7:39 really carefully. That passage is referring to Pentecost. Jesus said the Spirit would not be sent until he ascended back to heaven. Pentecost was 10 days after the ascension.
No, that passage is not necessarily referring to Pentecost. That is an assumption. We are clearly told that Christ breathed the Holy Spirit into the disciples that evening after His resurrection in John 20:22 when He said "Receive ye the Holy Spirit". By comparing this text with John 7:39, we can then conclude that Christ was already glorified at that point, because Christ was supposed to be glorified BEFORE the Holy Spirit was given.
"Receive you the Holy Spirit" was a present tense command. He was actually commanding the Holy Ghost to indwell them; but that didn't happen until 10 days after the ascension. If they had "received" as had been commanded to the Spirit to descend; Pentecost would have happened right then and there. But that's not what happened. Why not? (Because he wasn't yet glorified.)
No, there was no delayed giving of the Holy Spirit until 50 days later at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit was given to the disciples then and there that evening. Pentecost taking place 50 days later was the moment when
the miraculous sign gifts of the Holy Spirit were being poured out on all flesh. The Holy Spirit can be present and indwelling an individual without them manifesting miraculous sign gifts, which is the situation we have today also. Those sign gifts being manifested back then were only a visible proof to others that the Holy Spirit was ALREADY indwelling the disciples.
As for the resurrected Matthew 27:52-53 saints...
Thus then according to your logic; the "holy city" they appeared in would have HAD TO BE the new Jerusalem.
All the people resurrected prior to Jesus's resurrection died again. Lazarus wasn't automatically transfigured at the point Christ rose from the dead. And yes, it would be correct to assume that Lazarus was still physically alive when Christ rose from the dead.
No, none of those died again. That has also been a common assumption without a single scripture to back up that theory, but this is an impossibility. The same power of the Holy Spirit that it takes to make a believer rise to life again is the same power that gives them immortality at that point. Just as it is impossible for the Holy Spirit to die, so it is impossible for one raised to life again by the Spirit's power to die again either.
Lazarus was never "transfigured". Christ raised Lazarus to live again in a glorified, incorruptible, immortal life, and he never died again. Humanity is appointed to die ONLY
ONCE - never twice. The Hebrews 9:27-28 rule stands firm. "Neither CAN they die anymore..." Luke 20:36 says of the saints' resurrected state.
You're wrong here too. Take a look at all the places (4) that (3062) is translated "remnant"; it means "remainder of"; not "fraction".
Matthew 22:6,
Revelation 11:13,
Revelation 12:17,
Revelation 19:21
In none of those passages does it mean a portion of. It means all the rest that are left.
When I read in Revelation 20:5 about the "
rest of the dead" (loipoi) who "lived again" as the "First resurrection" event, this word "loipoi" also appears in the definition for the word
"remnant" in my Vine's dictionary, which is why I use that word . Also, as you have noted, it also means
"remaining ones". Exactly so. Those many Matthew 27:52-53 resurrected saints and those others like them did not ascend with Christ in Acts 1. Instead, that "multitude of captives" whom Christ brought out of the grave continued to
REMAIN on earth to serve in the early church as pastors and teachers, evangelists, prophets, etc. (as in Ephesians 4:8-12).
The resurrected Matthew 27:52-53 saints were also the very same ones who had been made "
alive" (by resurrection) and who were then
"remaining" on earth in 1 Thessalonians 4:15&17. Paul assured the Thessalonians that these "
remaining" ones would not precede their own dead loved ones (that were then in the grave) by ascending to heaven with Christ before they did. Those saints already resurrected would wait and "remain" on earth in their immortal condition until they could join the others in the next resurrection event when together they would meet the Lord in the air .
(And by the way, I am thoroughly pleased that you recognize the Mount of Olives as the crucifixion site of Golgotha. I don't run into many that know about this fact. The "place of t
he skull" I believe also has probable reference to the
"head" of the Mount of Olives being
its crest. That is what the word "ros" means in the OT. King David escaping over
the crest of the Mount of Olives after Absalom took the city was said to be passing over
"Ros" or the "
head" of the Mount of Olives, where he worshipped God - 2 Kings15:32
LXX)