Hopefully good debating points can be gained from this discussion.
First, let me explain how I read the text of scripture about the resurrection. There is a need to differentiate between Jesus the man and "the body of Christ". Which was resurrected?
Read Matthew 11:4-5 " Go and show John again those things ye do hear and see; The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, THE DEAD ARE RAISED UP, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
Now, if the dead were raised up while Christ was yet alive, then how can there be another resurrection? Instead, there is what was called "a second death", and not a second coming. For those who were raised-up, it was impossible for them to suffer a second death, for they were "in Christ", exalted, as at the beginning when their place and name were selected as the "elect" and "Gods chosen people" out of all the tribes of Israel. Note that it was not the Jews of Judah tribe which were the "elect" chosen to be priests, but that positioning of inheritance went forward in name of Levi, and that only the Levitical family was covenanted as "anointed" to be priests forever in Israel and their place at Jerusalem restored as seen when Christ cast the demons out and declared to the people, "the kingdom of heaven is come unto you".
How then did things become so confusing and taken out of Judaism?
First, let me explain how I read the text of scripture about the resurrection. There is a need to differentiate between Jesus the man and "the body of Christ". Which was resurrected?
Read Matthew 11:4-5 " Go and show John again those things ye do hear and see; The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, THE DEAD ARE RAISED UP, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
Now, if the dead were raised up while Christ was yet alive, then how can there be another resurrection? Instead, there is what was called "a second death", and not a second coming. For those who were raised-up, it was impossible for them to suffer a second death, for they were "in Christ", exalted, as at the beginning when their place and name were selected as the "elect" and "Gods chosen people" out of all the tribes of Israel. Note that it was not the Jews of Judah tribe which were the "elect" chosen to be priests, but that positioning of inheritance went forward in name of Levi, and that only the Levitical family was covenanted as "anointed" to be priests forever in Israel and their place at Jerusalem restored as seen when Christ cast the demons out and declared to the people, "the kingdom of heaven is come unto you".
How then did things become so confusing and taken out of Judaism?