1. Three classes of resurrection for humans:

John 5:24.  Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

This is the First class – those who already have eternal life now – a spiritual resurrection.

     25.  "Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.  …  28.  Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice  29.  and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life,

The Second class – a physical (not spiritual) resurrection.

     and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

The Third class --  a physical resurrection of judgment (kriseoV - crisis)

 

2.  Regarding the First Class only – they are ALREADY resurrected since they don’t die (that is, they have already died to Messiah)!

Colossians 3:1.  You have been raised with Messiah: seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated at the right hand of G-d.  2.  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  3.  For you have died, and your life is hid with Messiah in G-d.  4.  When Messiah who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory (shekina).

Ephesians 2: 5.  even when we were dead through our trespasses, we were made alive together with Messiah  6.  and (he) raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Messiah Jesus,   7.  that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Messiah Jesus.   

 

3.  The Spirit is raised for an eventual spiritual body

1 Cor 15:42.  So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.   43.  It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.   44.  It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual (pneumatikon -- “pneumatic”) [body]. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.  …  50.  I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

 

4.  Do those who have fallen asleep have a spiritual body now?   Not yet.

Revelation 6:9   9.  And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls (yucaV -- “psychas” – “psyches”) of those who had been killed … 11b. They were told to rest a little while longer, until everything was complete.

 

5.  The spirits of First Class members remains “in Messiah” until a time when all is complete – a time of ‘consummation.’

Ephesians 4:13.  How long? Until we are all together.
1 Thessalonians 4:14.  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. (To where is he coming?)  …  16.  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of G-d. And the dead in Messiah will rise first;  17. then we who are alive shall be caught up together

(Gr. sun  autoiV  `arpaghsomeqa  

Latin simul rapiemur cum illis)

with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with Yahweh.

John 6:38.  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me;  39.  and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.

 

6.  Where is the final destination of the spiritual body?  “On the mountain” or “in clouds of glory” or “in the heavens” (i.e. sky) – or in a dimension where one may interact with spiritual beings and physical beings both.

Rev 14:1.  THEN I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. … 14.  I looked and there was a white cloud (Heb 12:1). There was one sitting on the cloud like the Son of Man.  15.  Another angel came out of the temple sanctuary. This angel shouted very loudly, “The earth’s harvest is ready!'”

 7.  Summary:  Jesus was raised bodily from the dead.  His wounded flesh was raised.  Second and Third classes are raised in the flesh to face life or judgment on the earth.  The First Class, or elect) are not raised in the flesh, but in the spirit to gain a spiritual body eventually.  SO -- If the elect (the First Class) are raised as spiritual bodies and not in the flesh, why did Jesus need to be raised bodily (i.e. his actual wounded body was raised from the dead)?   Answer:  Because Jesus died for the whole human race of flesh.  His body was arose for the sake of all flesh and his spirit arose for the sake of the elect.