A Mighty Fortress by Steve Green

The godless do not get a changed body. The righteous do. That is the difference between being resurrected (or if you happen to be alive that day, raptured) and 'coming again to life.' The thought that Believers will be resurrected/changed BEFORE the Last Day is foreign to Scripture and a heresy upon which some are making a LOT of money.

There is also a re-animation if you will of the dead., who are thrown into the lake of fire. The dead do NOT get resurrected bodies. They get earthly bodies back, which are destroyed when they are cast into Gehenna. Everyone will be judged on the Last Day. The 'rapture' is a bunch of foolishness the way the pre-tribbers teach it. I use the term as a slang term to describe the changing of the body of a live believer from mortal to immortal on the Last Day, immediately after the resurrection.

Technically, yes they do. I am NOT a pretribulationist. I can't stand that heresy. The first resurrection is IN CHRIST. Ephesians 2:6 states that we are raised up with Christ and seated in the heavenly places. Obviously this in a spiritual sense, but it speaks to the first resurrection. If there is a FIRST resurrection, there must needs be a second. The partakers of the first resurrection are NOT affected by the second death. They are in Christ and can't be.
The 2nd resurrection is for our body

@pilot4321 Revelation is literal, historical, spiritual, allegorical and poetic, drawing from the OT. It's literal some places, historical in most, spiritual in other places and allegorical in yet others. An amazing book indeed.

Well, Revelation is really more of a vision of things to come rather than a a drawing of the OT. The problem is so much of Revelation is allegorical and poetic, where can you reliably tell what isn't? It is the last book of the Bible (as it should be), but trying to define ones fundemental theologies on it is foolish.

@RMCDisciple The second resurrection is that of Believers' bodies. The wicked are NOT resurrected, not reanimated, only to be cast into Gehenna. The LORD reigned through his people for more than a thousand years. The 'thousand years' is idiomic. (LIke the Japanese phrase Banzai, or the English 'I've told you a thousand times"). The Greek text indicates that Christianity would be in control and have pre-eminence. We did have exactly that, now, we have entered the little season, Satan's release.

Actually scriptures clearly teach everyone who ever lived will be resurrected on the last day, and then judged. Hence the "day of judgment." Those who are sent away (to hell) will be tormented in body for eternity.

@RMCDisciple The mentioned resurrection is the 'first' resurrection: i.e.: the resurrection of the Believer IN CHRIST. It is not a bodily resurrection, but one obtained through baptism (Romans 7). There are only two resurrections, the first and second, those who participate in the first are unaffected by the Second Death (i.e.: saved).

The scriptures never talk of two resurrections. Only one on the last day. If you are still alive when Christ returns, you will be transformed in Glory and if you are dead you will raised from the dead in Glory just as Christ was. Christ was the first fruits of the resurrection as Paul says so we too will be raised from the dead like Christ. All will be raised from the dead and judged. BTW, when we were baptized we died to sin and death in Christ, we were not resurrected at that time.