Do you know that Christ our head was “the first begotten of the dead”? That he was “the first that should rise from the dead”? And that he is “the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence”? Rev. 1:5; Acts 26:23; Col. 1:18.

If he was the firstborn from the dead; that in all things HE might have the preeminence, why should any give to Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter, the widow’s son or any other, this eminence, by claiming that they preceded him? John 11:43, 44; 12:1-9; Matt. 9:25; I Kings 17:17-24.

Is not this sufficient evidence to convince any truth-loving Christian that, in the cases of Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter, and others, there was no resurrection, but merely reanimation? Isa. 8:20.

Do you know that the word raised is translated from the Greek word egeiro, which means to awake, to rouse up, and the word resurrection is translated from the Greek word anastasis, which means rising or bringing up?

—Young’s Analytical Concordance.

Do you know that the raising up of Lazarus, Jairus’ daughter and others was nothing more than reanimation, i.e., made alive in the body? — and that they were nothing more than the reanimated dead? — that they still remained the dead who were burying their dead? — and that they went into their graves again, to there remain until the resurrection day? And don’t you know that if they heard (obeyed) the voice of the “Son of Man” and were made alive in Christ through faith before they went into the grave the second time, that they will be resurrected immortal spirit beings, “partakers of the divine nature”? — but if they did not hear (obey) that voice, and were not made alive in Christ before they went into the grave the second time, that they will be reanimated (egeiro) in the body, mortal human beings, just as they were before? — and that they will be raised the second time not to die again, but to be made alive (resurrected) in Christ, and inherit eternal life, if they will? John 5:25-30; Acts 24:15; I Cor. 15:22.

Do you know that this is NOT teaching a second chance? — and that this little booklet does NOT teach a second chance, but that it does teach ONE JUST AND EQUITABLE CHANCE (judgment-trial) for each and every individual? — and that SAID CHANCE IS FOR LIFE? Do you know that the chance is open now only to those who enter the race “for the prize of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus” through faith? (Phil. 3:14; I Cor. 1:26; II Tim. 1:9; Heb. 3:1; II Pet. 1:10) — and that not all who enter the race will win the prize, but only a “LITTLE FLOCK” of “ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND” will so run as to obtain? (Matt. 22:14; I Cor. 9:24; Heb. 12:1; Rev. 14:1-5) — and that those who fail to so run as to obtain, shall either lose life in the “SECOND DEATH” or be of the “GREAT MULTITUDE” who “shall be saved so as by fire”? (Rev. 20:14; 7:9-17; I Cor. 3:15), and that the residue of men — those who do NOT enter the race for the prize — the unjust class, the non-elect world — who were condemned in Adam and who will have died for their fathers’ sin, shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth (egeiro) from the grave hereafter, in order that they may be given a chance? Is it not appointed unto men once to die? (Heb. 9:27) — and would not this be their FIRST AND ONLY INDIVIDUAL CHANCE TO ESCAPE DEATH and LIVE FOREVER? Would not this be ONE CHANCE FOR ALL? Is not this a chance for the race-runners now, and a chance for the residue (balance) of men hereafter? John 5:25; Eze. 18:20; Acts 3:23; Heb. 9:27.

Do you know that the word damnation in the 29th verse of the 5th chapter of John is a miserable mistake made by the translators, and that it should be judgment? Does not the revised version read: “And they that have done ill [evil], unto resurrection of judgment”? As judgment includes a trial, isn’t it therefore a resurrection by trial? John 5:29 (R.V.).

Do you know that the word damnation in King James’ version, and the word judgment in the Revised Version (John 5:29), are translated from the Greek word krisis? —and that it is the same as the English word crisis, which means a deciding or turning point? Do we not speak of the fever patient as having reached the crisis, the turning point for better or worse? Therefore, should it not read, “They that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of a crisis,” for better or worse — to be obedient and live for-ever, or to be disobedient and die the eternal or second death? Rom. 6:23.

Was there not a harvest period at the end of the Jewish Age, and did not our Lord with his disciples separate the wheat from the chaff? (Luke 3:17). Did he not baptize the wheat class with THE Holy Spirit, and the chaff class with fiery destruction? (Luke 3:16, 17). Did not there begin another sowing at that time by our Lord? (Matt. 13:37). Did he not sow the good, wheat seed, and an enemy sow tares? (Matt. 13:24-30; 36-44). Did not our Lord, on account of their likeness in outward appear- ance, instruct his disciples not to attempt to separate them, but to let them grow together until the harvest? (Matt. 13:30). Have they not grown together, side by side, in all of the different sects unto the present time? Did not our Lord say that there would be a separating time, or harvest period, in the end of this Gospel age, and that he would send forth the sword of truth by his messengers and separate the TRUTH LOVERS, the wheat, from those WHO LOVE NOT THE TRUTH, the tares? (II Thes. 2:10,11; Matt. 13:39-41; Eph. 6:17; Rev. 1:16) and that the wheat were to be gathered into his barn (condition of security), and the tares were to be bound into bundles (as sects) to be burned, destroyed? (Matt. 13:40-42). But don’t you know that all of the chaff and tares, as well as the world at large who will have been destroyed by the first, or Adamic death, which is called the enemy, have been redeemed by our Lord from this destroyed (death) condition, and that all will eventually hear his voice and come forth from this condition? (Heb. 2:9; John 5:28). Will there not be a resurrection of the unjust by judgment — a crisis? (John 5:29, R.V.). Shall they not come forth in the next age (the Millennial) and have a just, equitable and individual chance for life — to be tried for eternal life or death? And at the end of that age, will there not be another and final separating time? Will he not separate the sheep from the goats? (Matt. 25:32). Will not the sheep gain eternal life and the goats be eternally destroyed, which will be the second death? Rev. 20:14.

Will not the second death be the same as the first, except that the first is to be destroyed by our Lord by making all (the obedient) alive; whereas the second will be without end, because Christ will die no more to redeem the dead? Should these not, “as natural brute beasts, … perish”? (II Pet. 2:12). Is this anything more or less than annihilation? Rom. 6:9, 10; Rev. 20:14-15.

While the obedient, reanimated dead (sheep) shall have the first, Adamic or the enemy death destroyed in them by receiving eternal life, will not the disobedient of the reanimated dead (goats) who will not have the enemy, death, destroyed in them by receiving eternal life, be cast into the second death, destruction, annihilation? Would not this be the destruction of the first, the Adamic, or the enemy, death, either by giving eternal life or the infliction of its antithesis, eternal death? Rev. 20:14.

Do you know that being made alive in Christ and resur- rection completed are the same, and that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust? and that the ELECT CHURCH are the just, the “firstfruits,” who are made alive in Christ now, during this the first resur- rection? — and that those who have not been made alive in Christ during the first resurrection are the non-elect, the unjust, the “after fruits,” who must be reanimated (egeiro) in the body hereafter, in order that they (whosoever will) may be made alive in Christ during the second resurrection? I Cor. 15:22; Acts 24:15; Rev. 14:4; 20:5, 6; 22:17.

Do you know that the firstfruits, the little flock, the just, the church, is a predestinated number of a “HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND”? (Rev. 14:1-5) and that these are now being resurrected, or made alive in Christ, in the first resurrection, by walking the narrow way of justification and sanctification through faith? — and that these are God’s elect, “whom he did foreknow,” and “also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son”? Rom. 8:29.

Do you know that the “hundred and forty-four thousand,” “the church,” the “firstfruits,” are now being made alive in Christ, by being resurrected out from among the animated dead, and that this is the first resurrection? (Rom. 8:23; Jas. 1:18; Rev. 14:4). Do you know that they with the Lord shall rule and reign over “the rest of the dead” for a thousand years? (Rev. 20:4, 5) and that “the rest of the dead,” both animate and inanimate, are the after fruits? — and that the inanimated dead shall hear the voice of the “Son of Man” and come forth (be reanimated) from the grave, in order that they (with the animated) might be blessed by the “hundred and forty-four thousand,” “the church,” the “first-fruits,” the promised “seed of Abraham”? (John 5:25-28; Acts 24:15; Gen. 22:17, 18; Gal. 3:16, 27, 29; Rev. 14:1-5) and that they will be blessed with a “resurrection of [by] judgment”? John 5:29 (R.V.).

Do you know that the resurrection of the “rest of the dead” is the second resurrection, and is of a thousand years duration? — and that “the rest of the dead” (animated dead) will not live again in its full, complete sense, until the thousand years are finished; and that Satan will be loosed for a little season to endeavor to deceive? (Rev. 20th chapter) — and that the goat class who are deceived shall be cast into the lake of fire, which is the “second death”? (Matt. 25:32, 33, 46; Rev. 20:12-15) — and that the sheep class shall enter into the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world? (Matt. 25:32, 33, 34).

Do you know that while the 5th verse of the 20th chapter of Revelation harmonizes with the balance of scripture, it is spurious, and is not found in the oldest manuscripts?

Does not this teach that the after-fruits are the un- justified, unforgiven and non-elect world, whose minds are blinded by the god of this world into going the broad road to destruction? — and that the elect church will reanimate (egeiro) all of them, and resurrect (anastasis) or make alive whosoever will in Christ in the second resurrection? (II Cor. 4:3, 4) — and whosoever will not, shall they not enter into eternal (the second) death? Acts 3:23.

What Christian can dispute the fact that God is now electing a people for his name? (I Pet. 1-2; II Pet. 1:10; Rom. 8:33; Matt. 24:31; Acts 15:14), and that this people are the promised seed of Abraham? (Rom. 4:13, 16; 9:7; Gal. 3:16-29; Heb. 11:18) — and that this promised seed of Abraham are the sons and heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ? (Rom. 8:14, 17; Gal. 3:29; 4:6, 7; Titus 3:7; Heb. 6:12-20; Jas. 2:5) — and that these heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ are to rule and reign with Christ a thousand years (Rev. 20:4) and bless all families of the earth? (Gen. 12:3; 28:14; Acts 3:25).

The question now arises, who will be the subjects that Christ and his church will rule and reign over for a thousand years, if not the non-elect, unjust ones who will have gone the broad road to destruction? (Matt. 7:13). How could those who will have gone the broad road to destruction be blessed until they are first reanimated (egeiro) from destruction? Did not our Lord die for all? (Heb. 2:9). Has he not redeemed all? — and shall not all live again? Will not all in the graves, both the just and the unjust, hear the voice of the Son of Man and come forth? (Acts 24:15; John 5:25-30, R.V.). And after they shall come forth in the body (reanimated), will they not be blessed by being made fully alive in Christ, if they will? (Matt. 25:34). Is not the coming forth out of the grave, reanimation of the body (egeiro)? — and being made fully alive in Christ, is that not resurrection? Will not the church, the 144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5, be resurrected by her Lord? and is not this the first resurrection, both in degree and time? (Rev. 14:1-5; 20:5). Will not the church (144,000 of Rev. 14:1-5) — share with her Lord in his glorious work of blessing all the balance of mankind by resurrection? And is not this the second resurrection? (Rev. 20:4).

Do you know that after the night (6,000 years) of sin, sickness and death, the morning of the great Sabbath (the seventh day of a thousand years) cometh? — and that the Son of Righteousness shall rise with healing in his beams? (Jas 5:4; Mal. 4:2) — and that when this great physician shall appear, his church (the promised seed of Abraham, of the first resurrection) shall also appear with him? (Col.3:4) — and that they shall have dominion over all people in the morning? (Psa. 30:5; 49:14) — and that he shall speak the word “egeiro” — awake, rouse up — and all in their graves shall in their order hear the voice of the (great physician) “Son of Man” and come forth from their beds of clay? (John 5:25, 28, 29) and that they will come forth from “destruction” in a sin-sick condition just as they went down? (Ecclesiastes 11:3) and that after they are reanimated (egeiro), after they are brought out of the grave, will not whosoever will then be made alive in Christ by a resurrection (anastasis) out of sin, sickness and death? (Psa. 86:13). Will not all (his sheep) who hear (obey) the great physician by taking the balm of Gilead, be healed, and inherit ETERNAL LIFE in the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world? (Matt. 25:34) — and will not the incorrigibly wicked (goats), who will not hear (obey) “that prophet,” be cut off from life by dying the second death? Is not this eternal destruction (annihilation), because Christ dieth no more to redeem the dead? Rev. 20:14; Acts 3:23; Rom. 6:9.

Is not this great Sabbath or resurrection day of the world, the Lord’s Day? — and is it not also called the judgment day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness? Psa. 118:24; 96:13.

“O death, where is thy sting,” after all the dead are made fully alive? “O grave, where is thy victory,” after all in the graves shall have heard the voice of the Son of Man and shall have come forth? Is not “the sting of death” sin, which the Lord will destroy? — and is not the strength of sin the law, which the Lord frees us from now and will make possible for the world to perform in this future resurrection and restitution time? I Cor. 15:55, 56; John 5:25, 28, 29.

Sing with all the sons of glory,
Sing the resurrection song!
Death and sorrow, earth’s dark story,
To the former days belong.
All around the clouds are breaking,
Soon the storms of earth shall cease,
In God’s likeness man, awaking,
Comes to everlasting peace.