[chette777]

it is the first resurrection of the dead found in the book of Revelation. you will notice that only those resurrected in this first resurrection are allowed to LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM 1,000 YEARS. so they get to live with Christ and reign 1000 years after which they no longer will live and reign with him.

vs 6 tells us those in the first are not affected by the second death, and the second resurrection and death take place later in the chapter after first resurrected saint have lived and reigned with Christ 1000 years.

Christians will live forever with him, and reign with him forever as well because we are his body.

First fruit and the rapture of which Paul speaks are different. Matt 27 tells us saints graves were opened and they arose but they are not the martyred saints of Revelation, they are the first fruits of which Paul speaks. Neither are the saints who are raised and transformed into his image at the gathering in the clouds part of the first resurrection of Revelation. Ephesians tells us this is a mystery gathering and is not that of Revelation.

The confusion comes from substituting the church for Israel in the book of Revelation and most of that doctrine come from a long line from the pre-reformation period and has no true biblical basis. Rightly dividing will eventually reveal that some of our teaching of the church from the book of Revelation are indeed incorrect.

I hoped that helped a little