We know that sin entered the world through our first parents, Adam and Eve, and death entered into the world because of sin. I Corinthians 15:21-22. Isaiah the prophet was sent to King Hezekiah with a sad message. “Thou shalt die and not live”. As a definition for death, there can be no better than “Thou shalt die and not live”. Isaiah 38:1. We also know that:
 
The answer to that question can be found in the Bible. The wise philosophers of the past have bypassed that question by asserting that the real person resides on the inside of the material body and never really dies. Some even argue that the seat of man’s intelligence (the soul) resides in the lung, in the heart, in the brain, or in the stomach. That analysis goes opposite to the determination of God as revealed to Adam:
   
The multitudes marveled when Jesus raised the widow of Nain’s son. Luke 7:11 They marveled when he raised Lazarus from the dead. John 11:43. No need to marvel at that, he said, because “A time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out”. Just think about what a miracle that will be. “All who are in their graves” will come out. Not one or two or only a thousand dead people; but all. The NT is very clear that those who have died will come out of their graves as well as out of the sea. Revelation 20:13. Paul tied the resurrection of Christ to the resurrection of believers.
    The Bible teaches a resurrection from death. Actually, the Bible teaches there will be two resurrections. (Please give me a fair hearing on this)Daniel 12:2 and John 5:28-29. It teaches a resurrection from the dead. How else could the prophecy in Revelation be realized?
 
Jesus was raised “from the dead”. This makes sense because to be raised “from” the dead literally means he was raised “out from among the dead ones”. Jesus was raised up and there were dead people left after his resurrection who were still dead and not raised. So Jesus was raised “out from among the dead”. After being raised he could look around and see that there were dead ones still in their graves. Look at the following references to prove my point:
          There are references which refer to the saints as being raised from the dead. This can be seen clearly in John’s words, “The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection”. Revelation 20:5 Saints are raised and there are others still in graves following their resurrection. These will remain in their graves until a thousand years have been completed. What I understand from the following words of Paul is that “the dead in Christ will be raised first”.
 
I believe the Bible teaches that all will be raised from the dead; good and bad alike. There is just too much evidence to reject this understanding. But there is an order to the resurrection “of the dead”. I Corin. 15:23 "Christ the first fruits, after that those who are christ's at His coming". Jesus was the first; the saints will be raised at his coming; a time when Jesus abolishes all rule, authority and power, thus putting all enemies under his feet. This must include the time of judgment when the rest of the dead will be raised and judgment will occur. Revelation 20:11-13
 
Please don’t rush past verse 23 without noticing this statement: “those who are Christ's at His coming”. Doesn’t that seem to be both inclusive and exclusive as well? At Christ’s coming those who are his will be resurrected. That seems to me to exclude the wicked, don’t you think? Am I way out in left field or does that make as much sense to you as it does to me? All rule and all authority and power cannot be abolished until such a time as:
 
Did you get that? “The iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time”. That sounds familiar to me. I think this involves the time of the great white throne judgment. When all nations are gathered before the Son of Man the will be separated as sheep are seperated from goats. The iron mixed with miry clay was destroyed by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands. Daniel 2:45 He (the Son) must reign till he has put all things under his feet. I Corinthians 15:25 We must allow for a period of time when he rules the nations and breaks them with a rod of iron. Psalms 2:9. The iron mixed with miry clay, the feet and toes of the great image representing world governments at the end, was smitten with the stone cut out without hands; was broken to pieces like the chaff of the summer threshing floor; and the wind carried them all away. Daniel 2:35.