Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, December 30 (20:6)
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years” — Revelation 20:6.
SCRIPTURE distinguishes between the resurrection of life, which will take place at our Saviour’s pre-millennial advent (1 Thess. 4:13-17), and the resurrection of judgment, which takes place at the end of time, just prior to the setting up of the Great White Throne where all the wicked must give account before God. They who participate in the resurrection of the just have been saved by grace. Theirs will be a blessed part indeed. They are holy, set apart to God in Christ. The second death, which is final separation from God, they shall never know, for they are possessors of eternal life received by faith in Christ. For eternity they will have access as priests into the immediate presence of God and the Lamb, and when the Kingdom is set up over this earth they will reign with Him for whom once they suffered in the time of His rejection, Best of all, they shall see and be with Him forever.
— J. G. Deck.