There are seven pointedly identified resurrection(bodily redemption) events found in the book of Revelation. They are:
1. The 24 elders .
2. The beast from the sea.
3. The church.
4. The saints and prophets of Israel.
5. The 144,000.
6. The two witnesses.
7. Those beheaded for refusing the mark.
How and where are these resurrections identified? First, the how.
They are both collectively and individuallistically identified by the seven thunders.
Rev 10:1-11 KJV 1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: 2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. 5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
What is collectively represented here is 7 resurrection events. This mighty angel who stands upon the earth and sea is actually spanning (what Jesus identified as) the great gulf fixed the realm of the living from the realm of the dead, most notably, it is the realm of the righteous dead. The book of Enoch identifies 4 compartments to house those who have passed from death unto life. Three of them are notably identified in the book of Revelation: Death, Hell, and the Sea of Glass. The sea of glass (Rev 4) is often referred to simply as the sea in Rev.. chapters 7,11,13, 20 and 21. The 4th compartment is identified as tartarus and houses the angels that sinned in the days of Noah.
Returning back to my original thought, this mighty angel spans the realms of the living and the dead and holds in his hand the little book, which is the book of life containing names written therein. Ones name must be found written inside to be permitted to return to the land of the living. What is portrayed in Rev 10, is not that of a single vision where 7 thunders are simultaneously uttered one right after the other, but is a picture of the multiple times that the event occurs. One of its simplified events is illustrated in 1Thess4 where we see a shout and the loud voice of the ARCHangel. I will pause here and explain in my next post how the seven thunders are individually revealed seven times in Revelation chapters 4,6,8,11,14,16 and 19.
Be Blessed
The PuP
