REVELATION 8:3-4 REVELATION 5:8 PSALM 141:2 REVELATION 6:9-10 ACTS 10:4 LUKE 1:10

Revelation 8:3-4   And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given to him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Revelation 5:8   Each had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. 

Revelation 6:9-10   And when the Lamb opened the 5th seal I saw under the altar the (spirits see Strongs G5590) of those who had been slain because of the word of GOD and for the testimony they had upheld.  And they cried out in a loud voice, how long oh Lord holy and true until you judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood ?  

Now, many people think this crying out of the saints from under the altar were actually living dead people, if that makes any sense.  It specifically says it was the prayers of these martyrs, prayers made while they were still alive.  Psalm 115:17  Psalm 6:5   Isaiah 38:18-19  These prayers are incense before GOD.  

Psalm 141:2  May my prayer be set before you like incense, May the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. 

This is showing us that GOD was about to answer their prayers.  In the next verse, verse 11 these martyrs are given white robes and that they wait in death a little longer until the number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters in Christ, were killed as they were.  These others are the Laodiceans who must give their lives as martyrs to receive salvation in the kingdom.  Revelation 7:9-14 is the account of the Laodicean martyrdom.  Revelation 19:8 tells us that white robes or linen symbolizes the righteousness of the saints.  Isaiah 61:10 confirms this.  I have proven in other articles that sleep is used as a metaphor for death because in normal sleep you are unconscious and unaware and you need to wake up to rejoin the conscious and aware, to live again after dying you are alive and aware again only by a resurrection at the return of Jesus.  

I have been writing a lot on this subject of life and death because I was unaware of certain people I know that believe in the lie of immediate life after death.  The resurrection is a church doctrine, see Hebrews 6:2, and never changes until the time far in the future where death is cast into the lake of fire.  

I have presented on this blog overwhelming spiritual proof that our only hope to live again after we die is by a resurrection at Christs return.   GOD reveals truth and truth is doctrine that is the same, GOD doesn’t keep changing doctrine, we should know this.  When Adam sinned the tree of life that gave immortality was shut off from humanity and is not opened again until Revelation 22:14  Revelation 2:7  The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 describes the second resurrection when all of the house of Israel will live again.  

R E S U R R EC T I O N

 

 

 Resurrection
occurs 41 times in 40 verses in the KJV.

 

 Mat 22:23

The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

 

 Mat 22:28

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

 

 Mat 22:30

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

 

 Mat 22:31

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

 

 Mat 27:53

And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

 

 Mar 12:18

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

 

 Mar 12:23

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

 

 Luk 14:14

And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

 

 Luk 20:27

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

 

 Luk 20:33

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

 

 Luk 20:35

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

 

 Luk 20:36

Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

 

 Jhn 5:29

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

 

 Jhn 11:24

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

 

 Jhn 11:25

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

 

 Act 1:22

Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

 

 Act 2:31

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

 

 Act 4:2

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

 

 Act 4:33

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

 

 Act 17:18

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

 

 Act 17:32

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

 

 Act 23:6

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

 

 Act 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

 

 Act 24:15

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

 

 Act 24:21

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

 

 Rom 1:4

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

 

 Rom 6:5

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

 

 1Co 15:12

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

 

 1Co 15:13

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

 

 1Co 15:21

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

 

 1Co 15:42

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

 

 Phl 3:10

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

 

 Phl 3:11

if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

 

 2Ti 2:18

Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

 

 Heb 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

 

 Heb 11:35

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

 

 1Pe 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

 

 1Pe 3:21

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 

 Rev 20:5

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

 

 Rev 20:6

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

 Resurrection means to be raised to life again after being dead.  This means that in death there is no life.  The resurrection proves that immediate life after death is a lie.  The resurrection is doctrine, Hebrews 6:2   Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

The resurrection to life happens at the last day, the return of Christ. John 6:39  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

Anyone who thinks that life after death is immediate is deceived.