3. Revelation 20:4-6
"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them.
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands.
And they were alive in their own living bodies [zao] and reigned with Christ a thousand years –
But the rest [loipoí] of the dead did not live again [anazao] (in their bodies) until the thousand years were finished.
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years." (Revelation 20:5).
In the context of the promises Christ makes to His churches and of the entire Revelation regarding Satan, the beast, the destruction of the beast by Christ at the time of His return, the resurrection that the New Testament teaches will occur when Christ returns,
and the meaning of the words used, the passage is talking about John seeing those souls alive in their own living bodies whom John had seen as beheaded for their refusal to worship the beast,
and John calls this the first resurrection of the body.
The conflation (adhered to especially by Amillennialists):
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"And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands.
And they were spiritually alive in Christ and reigned with Christ a thousand years before He returned to usher in the ages of the ages.
But the rest of those who were spiritually dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first "spiritual" resurrection into Christ through the "quickening of the human spirit" of those who were once spiritually dead."
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