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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

3433 — The First Resurrection

By Editor

Please explain Rev. 20:5, last clause, "This is the first resurrection." How is it the first when it is after the thousand years? H. B. Mc C.

It is not after the thousand years. The class of which the text speaks are those mentioned in verse 4. The rest of the dead do not live till the thousand years are past, but these of verse 4 are of the first resurrection. The word "this" applies to those of whom the revealer had just spoken, those close by. These very ones reign with Christ the thousand years. Verse 6. Then the rest of the dead are raised.