Reference

1 Peter 4:5

Two Resurrections Judgment at Resurrection Timing of Judgment

“Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.”

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Two Resurrections

The verse mentions a judgment of "the quick and the dead," which refers to all people, both living and deceased, at a single point in time. It does not explicitly distinguish or describe two separate resurrection events or stages.

Judgment at Resurrection

The verse states that an account will be given to one who is ready to judge the living and the dead, but it does not explicitly link this judgment to the event of resurrection, nor does it state that the judgment and resurrection occur at the same time.

Timing of Judgment

The verse states that an account will be given to the one who judges the living and the dead, but it provides no information whatsoever about *when* this judgment will occur in relation to any specific timeline, including the millennium.

Two Resurrections

Related Verses

1 Peter 4:6

“For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.”

1 Peter 4:17

“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

James 5:9

“Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.”

1 Peter 4:7

“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”

1 Peter 4:18

“And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

Thematic Connections

Two Resurrections Judgment at Resurrection Timing of Judgment

Private Study Note

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