The First Resurrection (part 1)

by Garrison R. Russell
from SonPlacing
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Six thousand years after the fall of Adam, the firstborn Sons of God will arise from earthly mortality. This celestial event will comprise the glorification of a small group from the Adamic race. This is the first resurrection. AFTER SIX DAYS Jesus taketh with him Peter, James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

In any crop, some individual plants reach their maturity well before the general harvest. These are called the "firstfruits." So also with the spirits of men. Some will reach their maturity and be readied for spirit birth, long before the rest. These will be raised to immortal splendor at the start of the Millennium, one-thousand years before the resurrection of the sleepy multitudes. The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.

God will assemble these firstfruits from the halls of time and gather them unto himself. The firstfruits of thy land thou shal bring into the house of the Lord thy God. They will be lifted out of the created realm, far beyond the reach of flesh or created spirit. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. They are destined for the Begotten Realm - that divine state of being that has thus far been occupied by Yahweh and Jesus alone. Thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion.

After the seven seals of Revelation, and at the blast of the seventh trumpet, the secret purpose of God will be complete. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished. This mystery is the Body of Christ. It is the anointing of "Christ", perfected in many individual members. The mystery of God, Christ, in whom are all the hidden treasures of the wisdom and knowledge. Col. 2:2,3 (Wuest)

Very soon now, on a day much like today, those who have ratified the New Covenant of sacrifice within their own spirits, will be collected from the ages. Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. Those whose lives have been shipwrecked upon the purposes of God, will be assembled in divine counsel. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

These are the firstfruits of the Adamic race, and they will be summoned to the first resurrection. I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God...and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. These Overcomers will be raised into faultless perfection - this is the act of spirit birth. 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.

At the sound of the seventh trumpet, those who have completed their spiritual gestation upon the earth will be raised from the dead and changed in the atoms. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

These illustrious travelers will step into another dimension and be transformed into divine beings. This is the first resurrection, and those who are called to it will ascend to the helm of creation. 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.

Arriving at the counsel hall of the ages, these individual will meet their Father face to face. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. There they will learn who they are. Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. As the magnitude of Sonship washes over their spirit, they will be transformed into their Father's likeness. We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.