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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 29
ORDER OF THE RESURRECTION
In verse 20 Paul has been rehearsing the whole scheme of resurrection in this chapter in the first 18 or 19 verses, that if Christ was not raised from the dead, then we have no hope. Resurrection speaks of that which only Christ began, and that is that He arose from the dead into the eternal, never to die again. So resurrection is something that only began when Christ arose from the dead. Now, we've been talking about the resurrection from the dead all the way through Chapter 15 on up to verse 19. In verse 20, Paul again, as I've used the expression off and on throughout the book of Corinthians, shifts gears. Now all of a sudden, instead of just talking about the resurrection of Christ at the time of His death, burial and resurrection, goes clear to the end of the age, you might say, and brings up resurrection as a part of the whole picture of God's plan of the Ages. Now, when I say it's God's plan, I want to take you back to Acts. When I speak of God's plan for the Ages, what I'm trying to imply is that God, before anything was ever created, the Triune God put everything in motion. "Him (speaking of Jesus of Nazareth Whom they had crucified), being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:"
Was God caught by surprise? It was all in that eternal plan of the ages that Christ must suffer. And all the way through Scripture we know this was in God's blueprint for the ages. Let's return to I Corinthians for a moment. I want folks to understand that, according to this predetermined plan of the ages, Christ would suffer and die but He would also rise from the dead.
I Corinthians 15:20
"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits (plural) of them that slept." (died)
Then verse 9 and 10:
Leviticus 23:9,10
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, `Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf (bundle) of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest:'"
They were to go into that field of barley, maybe 15 acres square, and as the field was still green, and all headed out as we say, all of a sudden scattered throughout that field will be yellow heads of grain. And those yellow heads just sprinkle throughout the field. Now verse 10 is speaking of a harvest, and while you're in Leviticus let's look at another part of the harvest. I Corinthians 15:20
(died)
Now verse 21:
I Corinthians 15:21
"For since by man came death, (that was Adam when he rejected God's discipline, and ate the fruit, and Adam died spiritually immediately. by man came also the resurrection of the dead." Well I can understand how Adam plunged the human race into sin and death because he ate of the forbidden tree. But how in the world did man bring back life to the human race? Well you've got to be careful and compare Scripture with Scripture. I Corinthians 15:45-47
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.'" Adam as the head of the natural progeny of the human race, plunged us into sin, and sin precipitated death. Let's look at that also in Romans Chapter 5 verse 12. Return to I Corinthians and look at verses 46 and 47 again.
I Corinthians 15:46
"Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual."
First we have Cain the natural, and Abel the spiritual. Then you have Esau the natural, and Jacob the spiritual. King Saul the natural, and King David the spiritual. During the Tribulation you'll have the man Anti-christ, the natural, and then at the end of the Tribulation, and second coming of Christ you have the spiritual. First the natural (Adam) and then the spiritual (Christ). Now verse 47 again.
I Corinthians 15:47,48
"The first man is of the earth, earthy; (he was created from the dust of the earth, but) the second man is the Lord from heaven." Jesus Christ is God, was God, He's the Creator, He's the sustainer of the whole universe, and we must never lose sight of that. Verse 48.
As I taught Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth." Israel is earthly. The Church is heavenly!
I Corinthians 15:49
"And as we have borne the image of the earthy, (that is being born into the human race by way of Adam, by our human parents we are earthly, but we're not going to stay earthly) we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."
"It's The Lord." We're going to have new, resurrected, immortal, heavenly, eternal bodies. Head first! He went up from the Mount of Olives head first. Feet first!

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