The resurrection happens at his coming. So if you believe his coming is in the future, then you must also believe the resurrection is in the future.
The resurrection is ongoing. The only future resurrection will be those alive out of Adam's dead flesh.
Why do posters here keep ignoring 2 Corinthians 5:1.
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
The dead body in the ground is not resurrected. The soul already has a permanent body when it arrives in Paradise. There has been no soul waiting in Abraham's bosom for a resurrection, since the Cross. The only general resurrection at the Cross were the OT redeemed out of Abraham's bosom.
They were the firstfruits with Christ. Every redeemed soul since then of the second birth in Christ has already left for Paradise and given a new permanent incorruptible physical body.
The only one's waiting in death will be those alive on the earth at the Second Coming. Then those on earth meet with those from Paradise in the air and all are glorified. The total restoration of soul, body, and spirit.
That is the 5th Seal event when all are given white robes. Not some, ALL!
The 6th Seal is Jesus coming to earth to the Mount of Olives, the Second Coming. That is when Matthew 25:31 takes place. All the angels are on the earth, and Jesus is sitting on the throne in a Temple in Jerusalem. That is after Jesus totally changes the geography of the ME per Zechariah 14. No temple can be built until after that, since that is when there will literally be no stone left unturned. The whole area will be a level plain.
"All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
There is a difference in being made alive and resurrection. The whole point of being made alive is changing out of Adam's dead state. Since the Cross, the second birth is a form of being made alive. It is a symbolic type of resurrection. One to be distinguished from a physical resurrection out of one's grave. Jesus declared all flesh returns to dust, and was never declared to be resurrected. "Let the dead bury the dead." Only the soul is resurrected out of Abraham's bosom into God's permanent incorruptible physical body. That happened once at the Cross. Now it is ongoing and immediate when those in Christ leave the physical body from Adam.
So when Paul states they arise first, they are gathered with physical bodies from all over Paradise, and Jesus brings them with Him to meet us in the air. No one's dust is going to rise into the air. Only the souls placed into a new body will rise from the earth.
Then Jesus will reign for those thousand years given in Revelation 20, and then all will be handed back as all things were made alive. So all in their order would be the OT redeemed in Christ the firstfruits, then ongoing fruits. Then the Second Coming. Then the last step, all of creation made alive.
Paul was pointing out that the dead are raised, but not one single verse in this chapter declares a singular resurrection point. In fact the point:
"But every man in his own order"
Indicates not all at one single time. But most want to say that no one was resurrected at the Cross. That "Christ the firstfruits" does not mean they left Abraham's bosom and entered Paradise, at least not physically. What is the point of a soul leaving the same body twice? Is a resurrection not permanent? That was the point why the Sadduceess did not even accept a resurrection. No one thought it was permanent. So many today think it will only be permanent at some point in the future. That is why they asked Jesus who will be married to whom at the resurrection. No one understood the resurrection, which was not about bringing back Adam's dead corruptible flesh. It was about putting souls back into God's permanent incorruptible physical body created on the 6th day, before Adam disobeyed God and was placed into a body of death. This body of death is left for the dead in a state of death to dispose of in permanent death.
The soul is made alive with the second birth. The soul is given a permanent body once it leaves this earth. No one is coming back to the earth until the NHNE. The OT saints were not bound to live forever on the earth after the Cross. Amil claim there is no millennium for the same reason. Although most think coming to earth is immediate at the Second Coming. It is not. Paul pointed out the reigning part was after the Second Coming as part of "every man in his own order". The Second Coming is not the last step. The being made subject to God is the last step. The first humans were made alive at the Cross. The result of the Cross has been ongoing. No one has had to wait in Abraham's bosom since the Cross. And even after the Second Coming, Jesus is still reigning this whole time. All on earth are reigned by sight, and not faith. The declaration of the 7th Trumpet.
"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever."
That will be non stop even incorporated in being in subjection to God.
"And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
After that point there is the NHNE.
