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that this resurrection follows and by no means precedes the reign of Antichrist and the

days of suffering.
In Isaiah 25 verse 8: ―He will swallow up death in victory …etc.‖ is the verse that
the Apostle Paul quotes in connection with the triumph of resurrection and rapture, I
Cor. 15:54. Here in its original setting, it is seen in immediate connection with the

millennium where it is said in Isa. 25:6: ―And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts
make unto all people, a feast of fat things, a feast wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of wines on he lees well-refined.‖ ―This mountain‖ is of course, Jerusalem,
and before that felicitous day can come ―He will destroy in this mountain, the face of

the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.‖ This we
take to mean the covering and vail of iniquity and blasphemy and Antichrist tyranny,
and it is in this connection that ―Death will be swallowed up in victory.‖ ―So when
this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on

immortality-then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written ‗Death is
swallowed up in victory‘.‖ But let us note carefully that it is chronologically pegged
in connection with the destruction of evil from the holy mountain of God and the
establishment of joy and fulness, and not before.

Likewise, in verse 19 of the chapter that follows, (Isa. 26) the resurrection verse:
―Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall rise (R.V.) Awake and sing, ye that dwell in
dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead,‖ comes
at the end of a context describing the time of Jacob‘s great suffering and anguish

during the days of the Beast. Again it becomes apparent that the resurrection will be
after a period of trial and suffering for both Israel and the church, and not before.
This will conclude our study of Old Testament passages on the resurrection. We
shall now examine some of the numerous passages dealing with this momentous crisis,

in the New Testament.

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