Is It True That the First Resurrection Happens First Before the Seven Thunders Utter Their Voices?
1) Direct Answer
No. The seven thunders must utter before and in the very season of the Lord’s descent, and that prepares and gathers the Bride for the first resurrection. The first resurrection does not come before the thunders.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Revelation 10:1-4 shows the Mighty Angel descending and the seven thunders uttering their voices. John is told to seal up what they said. Then verse 7 says, “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel… the mystery of God should be finished.” So the thunders belong to the time when the mystery is finishing—before the close and before the Bride is taken.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven “with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,” and then “the dead in Christ shall rise first.” Notice the order: descent, then resurrection.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 places the resurrection/change at the last trump.
- Revelation 20:4-6 identifies those who live and reign with Christ a thousand years—the first resurrection. This is the Bride. Revelation 7:9-17 also identifies that redeemed multitude as the Bride whom the Lamb leads.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Revelation 10 shows the Lord descending and the thunders sounding in that very timeframe. 1 Thessalonians 4 shows the Lord descending, and then the dead in Christ rise. Therefore the thunders are part of that descent season that finishes the mystery and equips the Bride, and only then does the first resurrection take place.
- If the first resurrection happened before the thunders, to whom would those sealed utterances minister, and how would they “finish” the mystery for a Bride that was already raised?
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Bible keeps the order straight: descent with hidden utterance and finishing of the mystery (Revelation 10), then the dead in Christ rise (1 Thessalonians 4), and those in Revelation 20:4-6 reign with Him. The thunders precede and accompany that gathering—so the first resurrection does not come first.
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Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §131
Now, there was some reason that God let this seven voices be thundered, because it must come, see, for the... We find that Christ, the Lamb, took the book in His hand, and He opened that seventh seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it. But it ... right along with what He said: no one would know His coming. They also would not know about this seven-thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together. That much we have an understanding of it today, because the rest of it is all unfolded, but this i...
The Feast of the Trumpets
64-0719M §69
You remember the vision the other day? Remember the preview of it? How many remembers Sunday before last? How there it was exactly come by; we seen it exactly. Seen that dirty, filthy thing come up called the church (vulgarity is to the extreme), and that little bride of every nation, each one of them dressed like their nation they come from, just perfect, by walking before the Lord. You notice, there'll be a time some time when they'll say, "Well, I thought the church was to go before the persecution. I thought th...
Revelation, Chapter 4a
60-1231 §88
John, called and summoned by the Lord Jesus, promised by God back there that he would see the coming of the Son of man... Peter, James, and John, and them standing present, when Jesus spoke to them and said, "There's some standing here will not taste of death until they see the Son of man coming." He didn't say "all" standing there, but "some." And they went a few days after that, and saw the order of the resurrection rehearsed, and the coming of the Lord. Elijah represented the dead saints ... I mean Moses, and .....
Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
63-0324M §111
QUESTION: Would the bride of Christ have ... would the bride of Christ have a ministry before the rapture? Sure. That's what's going on right now, see. The bride of Christ, certainly! It is the message of the hour---the bride of Christ. Sure, she consists of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors. Is that right? That's the bride of Christ. Sure, she's got a ministry, a great ministry---the ministry of the hour. It'll be so humble...
The Rapture
65-1204 §93
Therefore, the message calls the bride together. See? The shout and the trumpet. The same one with a loud voice, He screamed out with that shout-voice and woke Lazarus. With a loud voice He cried, "Lazarus, come forth." See? And the voice wakes up the sleeping bride, the sleeping dead. And the trumpet, with the sound of the trumpet, and when it does, it calls... Always a trumpet called Israel to the feast of the trumpets (see?), which was the Pentecostal feast, the great feast in the sky and the feast of the trumpe...