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The First Resurrection

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 33.

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The First Resurrection

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A RELIGIOUS paper comes to us which holds that the first resurrection of Rev. 20:4-6 is a spiritual resurrection, and that the "souls" spoken of in that passage are "disembodied souls," simply because the term "souls" is used. As well might we say that "the eight souls" saved in the ark (1 Peter 3:20) were disembodied souls, or the "unstable souls" of 2 Peter 2:14 were disembodied souls. Such wrestling of the Scripture is for the purpose of annihilating the thousand years between the two resurrections. But that period cannot be blotted out; God placed it there.