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Biblical Hermeneutics

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    The archangel Michael is not Jesus, so that threw off your response for no real reason. What you’ve just described is three resurrections, the two in revelation called the first and the second and this pre-first resurrection because there is no way you’re going to prove this one is equivalent to the first of revelation especially when you don’t claim to be a preterist. This was very confusing to read as a Bible believer. Can I ask what confession you ascribe to? JW by chance? Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 1:45
  • @NihilSineDeo - Obviously, you didn't check out my previous answer, which explains the Michael and Jesus connection and which fills out the answer exponentially. No, only two resurrections are being described. The Second Resurrection encompasses the whole of the 1000 year reign, starting at the 2nd Advent. You can be excused from being confused but only because this goes against conventional wisdom. And while I may have gotten the idea of Michael = Jesus from studying with the JW's, of and on, some 35 years ago (never became a brother), they never aspired to the 1st Century idea. Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 5:03
  • @NihilSineDeo - As to the saints that rose from the dead immediately after Jesus' resurrection, these were few and designed as an earnest (a thing intended or regarded as a sign or promise of what is to come). Although a resurrection, it was not the resurrection, as this belongs to the righteous raised at Jesus' 2nd coming considered, in truth, to be the actual 1st Resurrection. And the rest of the dead, who didn't all come to life until the 1000 years were ended (but before Satan was let loose again), being the 2nd Resurrection, although John does not specify as to a "2nd". Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 11:06
  • @NihilSineDeo - See Gill's exposition of Rev, 20:4,5. Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 11:15
  • No, Jesus is not Michael, nor the brother of satan, nor a great moral teacher, nor the reincarnated Adam, nor a prophet of Allah, nor an Indian guru, nor a gnostic Aeon, nor a man who was able to attain Christ-ship through enlightenment, nor a spirit in the appearance of a man, nor an additional god different from and superior to the demiurge of the Old Testament, nor anything or anyone other than what the Bible clearly tells us! Eschew biazogesis! Commented Feb 1, 2025 at 19:01