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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The Feast of the Trumpets
64-0719M §121
...tice, what happened? Immediately she turned back to a lovely young woman. Showing in there, portraying what He's going to do to the royal seed of Abraham to receive the Son that's been promised. She turned back to young... Look! They went down into Gerar and what happened? Abimelech, the king, fell in love with her, said, "She's fair and beautiful," and was going to marry her (is that right?), old grandma, and all them other pretty girls down there---granny. "She's beautiful, she's fair to look upon." See? God chan...
The Rapture
65-1204 §74
Now, I want you to notice a great thing taken place here now. Don't miss this. See? Now notice, the Word says here in II Thessalonians that there's three things... Notice, from the 13th to the 16th verse there's three things that has to happen before the Lord Himself appears. (Quickly now so we can close. See?) The first thing happens, notice: a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Let's read it now and see if that's right. See? For the Lord himself [16th verse] shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with a voice of the...
The Feast of the Trumpets
64-0719M §53
..., all the mysteries are to be revealed to the bride by the messenger of the Laodicea church. Has anybody got a Revised Version Bible? If you have, you'll notice there where it said, the angel, it's in parenthesis, it says, the eagle ... the messenger to the Laodicea church (see?), Revelations 10:1 to 7. And he said that this---in that day that he seen Him come down, and he eat up the little book. And there was ... He put one foot on land and one on the sea and swore by Him that lives for ever and ever, that time sh...
Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §50
...ain until one thousand years was past. The church members, the christians, the church, live not again until the end of the thousand years, and then they come forth to stand before the Bride. That's right. Stand before the King and the Queen. Glory! Some church today calls herself "The queen of heaven." The Queen of heaven is the selected Bride of Christ, and she comes with Him. Daniel saw it and said: "Ten thousand times ten thousands ministered to Him." Now if you'll watch the scripture there in Daniel, judgment w...
Revelation, Chapter 4c Throne of mercy and judgement
61-0108 §33
Then we find out here after these things, he heard a voice that was speaking to him. What was it? The Spirit left the earth. "After these things," starts out the first chapter, or the first verse: After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:... Revelation 4:1, after the Church is gone, then a door was opened. And we've went through all of that, and found that that was... Christ was the door. And the same voice that was walking in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks also was the same voice h...