Ray,

That was very well done, and easy to understand.

I like how you explained how someone determines which resurrection they'll be in, i.e. by rejecting Jesus they end up in the resurrection of the damned.

I had a question regarding the different phases of the resurrection of life.

When does the resurrection of the old testament saints occur (Abel, Noah, Abraham, Job, Joshua, David, etc.)?

Will it be part of the third phase that you described, in the beginning of the kingdom?

Or could there possibly be a fourth phase, where the old testament saints are resurrected at the at the time of the second advent?

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

  30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

  31 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.

Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

  26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

  27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

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