How many bodily resurrections will there be?

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What’s Your Question? for May 4, 2011

A popular doctrine says the righteous will be raised 1,000 years before the wicked are raised, and they will reign on earth with Jesus. Jesus said believers will be raised “on the last day” (Jn. 6:40,44,54), and those who reject His word will be judged “in the last day” (Jn. 12:47). He also said “the hour (not hours) is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth – those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation” (Jn. 12:28,29). Paul said the righteous dead would be raised before the righteous living are caught up and they will be caught up together (1 Thess. 4:14-17). He also said when the dead are raised it will be “the end” (1 Cor. 15:22-25).