Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 27, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 52.

Question Corner

By Editor

1750.—Partial Resurrection. Dan. 12: 2.

What is this partial resurrection and when shall it take place? Dan. 12: 2; Rev. 1: 7. R. S.

The context seems to fix it very clearly, immediately after the close of probation. The first verse of Daniel 12 refers to the reign of Christ. Reading all through the eleventh chapter you will see that the term standing up refers to kings reigning. There comes a time when he whose right it is shall stand up to reign. Then Christ will leave the Father's throne and take His own throne. Rev. 3: 21; Dan. 7: 13, 14. His mediatorial work is then finished; He is priest no more for the putting away of sin. Then will go forth the decree saying that all character is fixed. Rev. 22: 11. Then will begin the time of trouble of the seven last plagues, not upon the righteous, but upon the wicked, "such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time." But at that time God's people shall be delivered; every one that shall be found written in the book." At that time also, according to Daniel, "many [not all] of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some [not all] to everlasting life, and some [not all] to shame and everlasting contempt." The righteous who are then raised will be made immortal with the living righteous at Christ's coming, while the wicked dead who are raised will perish with the other wicked in the seven last plagues.