The Special Resurrection

October 5 – 11, 2025

Key Text

“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:2

Study Help: Early Writings, 285

Introduction

“Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand.” The Review and Herald, March 9, 1905

Sunday

1 TWO CLASSES

1.a. What event will announce the imminent deliverance of the saints? Joel 3:16; Hebrews 12:26; Revelation 16:17, last part, 18

Note: “Dark, heavy clouds come up and clash against each other. In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space of indescribable glory, whence comes the voice of God like the sound of many waters. …

“That voice shakes the heavens and the earth. There is a mighty earthquake.” The Great Controversy, 636, 637

1.b. Who are resurrected when God’s voice resounds before Christ’s return? Daniel 12:1, 2; Matthew 26:63, 64; Revelation 1:7. Will those raised to everlasting life be among those who will hear God’s covenant?

Note: “Graves are opened, and ‘many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth … awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt’ (Daniel 12:2). All who have died in the faith of the third angel’s message come forth from the tomb glorified, to hear God’s covenant of peace with those who have kept His law. ‘They also which pierced Him’ (Revelation 1:7), those that mocked and derided Christ’s dying agonies, and the most violent opposers of His truth and His people, are raised to behold Him in His glory and to see the honor placed upon the loyal and obedient.” The Great Controversy, 637

Monday

2 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR THOUSAND IN NUMBER

When will God deliver the everlasting covenant to His people and give the day and hour of Christ’s coming? Daniel 12:2

Note: “When Jesus leaves the sanctuary, then they who are holy and righteous will be holy and righteous still; for all their sins will then be blotted out, and they will be sealed with the seal of the living God. But those that are unjust and filthy will be unjust and filthy still; for then there will be no Priest in the sanctuary to offer their sacrifices, their confessions, and their prayers before the Father’s throne. Therefore, what is done to rescue souls from the coming storm of wrath must be done before Jesus leaves the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.” Early Writings, 48

“Soon we heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming. The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake. When God spoke the time, He poured upon us the Holy Ghost, and our faces began to light up and shine with the glory of God, as Moses’ did when he came down from Mount Sinai.

“The 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united. On their foreheads was written, God, New Jerusalem, and a glorious star containing Jesus’ new name. At our happy, holy state the wicked were enraged, and would rush violently up to lay hands on us to thrust us into prison, when we would stretch forth the hand in the name of the Lord, and they would fall helpless to the ground.” Ibid., 15

Tuesday

3 ADDITION OR INCLUSION?

Did the early Advent people believe that those who have died in the faith of the third angel’s message are included in the number of the sealed saints? Revelation 14:12, 13

Note: “As he [John] looked with intense interest he beheld the company of God’s commandment-keeping people. They had upon their foreheads the seal of the living God, and he said: ‘Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.’ … ” Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 6, 15

“Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand.” The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, 970

Wednesday

4 ADDITION OR INCLUSION? (CONTINUED)

4.a. What should be our goal under the third angel’s message? Matthew 24:13; Hebrews 4:14

Note: “The Lord manifests His grace and His power over and over again, and this should teach us that it is always profitable under all circumstances to cherish faith, to talk faith, to act faith.” The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, 928

4.b. What scriptures show the ultimate triumph of God’s remnant church? Philippians 1:6

Note: “In holy vision the prophet saw the ultimate triumph of God’s remnant church. He writes: ‘I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory … stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints.’ Revelation 15:2, 3. ‘And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion, and with Him a hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads.’ Revelation 14:1.’ In this world their minds were consecrated to God; they served Him with the intellect and with the heart; and now He can place His name ‘in their foreheads.’ ” The Acts of the Apostles, 590, 591

Thursday

5 TWO DISTINCT RESURRECTIONS

5.a. Who will be resurrected at the second coming of Jesus? John 5:28, 29, first part; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17. What will the righteous receive at this resurrection? Revelation 22:12; 1 Corinthians 15:51–55; 2 Timothy 4:7, 8

5.b. What will be the main occupation of the righteous during the millennium? 1 Corinthians 6:1–3; Revelation 20:4–6

5.c. Who are resurrected after the 1,000 years are over and the wicked have been judged? John 5:28, 29, last part; Revelation 20:5, 7–10

Note: “At the end of one thousand years, Jesus, the king of glory, descends. … The city of God comes down and settles upon the mighty plain prepared for it. Then Jesus leaves the city surrounded by the redeemed host and is escorted on His way by the angelic throng. In fearful majesty He calls forth the wicked dead. They are wakened from their long sleep. What a dreadful waking!” Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, 83, 84

“At the close of the thousand years the second resurrection will take place. Then the wicked will be raised from the dead and appear before God for the execution of ‘the judgment written.’ ” The Great Controversy, 661

Friday

PERSONAL REVIEW QUESTIONS

1 Describe the special resurrection when two groups will be raised from the tomb at the voice of God, just before the coming of Christ.

2 With what Bible verses does the Spirit of Prophecy identify the last remnant church that will be ready to meet Christ?

3 Describe the two general resurrections to take place, one at the coming of Christ and the other one thousand years later.