UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION
The book of Revelation is the last book in the New Testament. Its actual title is not “Revelation” or “Revelations” but “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” – it is best translated from the greek as, “The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ”. In our modern English parlance, it gives the idea of a terrible catastrophe, usually related to the end of the world or human civilization (as we have some Hollywood movies). An “apocalypse” was a particular type of literature in the earliest centuries.

The word “apocalypse” literally mean an “unveiling” – it doesn’t mean to hide something in a mysterious way, neither does it have anything to do with the end of the world. With that in mind, the “Apocalypse of Jesus Christ” simply means “an unveiling of the prophecy of Jesus Christ explained with the use of prophetic symbols and motifs.

What was the “prophecy” of Jesus Christ? John’s gospel is the one that excludes the famous Olivet discourse – the prophetic speech which Jesus gave to his disciples (Matthew 23-25). It was the only extended “prophecy” which Jesus gave. Very much the same that Jesus had the extensive “the Sermon of Jesus Christ” in (Matthew 5-7)

The “prophecy of Jesus Christ” we are obviously talking about the only extended prophecy that he delivered that was actually consistent with what some prophets of Old like Daniel and Malachi had recorded in their writings.

Since prophecy must have fulfillment to be valid, we must note THAT the prophecy was about what would happen within “one generation” (not OUR generation) (Matthew 24:34) when a time of trouble and tribulation would come to Judea (not to the whole word) that would begin when Jerusalem was surrounded by armies bearing the Eagle banner and would end with the Temple being destroyed so completely that “not one stone will be left upon another”. THAT was what Jesus predicted and prophesied.

THAT was the “End of the Age” and THAT would happen within forty years. If THAT was Jesus prophecy, and if Revelation is an unveiling of Jesus prophecy in the language of symbols – then THAT is what Revelation is about too. Clearly it was the closing curtain on the Old covenant and its institution for the new to be established.

The book of Revelation amplifies Jesus prophecy by giving it greater and more vivid details, and explains it more fully. It was written during the reign of the Emperor Nero when there were only a few years left until those age-changing events would occur. The prophecy was at its heels of fulfillment. Consider these statements:

“what must soon [shortly] take place” (Rev. 1:1; 22:6 [KJV]).

“Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy . . . who hear it and take to heart [obey] what is written in it” (Rev. 1:3; 22:7 [KJV])

“the time is near [at hand]” (Rev. 1:3; 22:10 [KJV]).

These full-content-bracketing, time statements establish the immediate historical context for the fulfillment of the whole of the prophecy. These passages tell us that a very significant event was to occur within a very short time and certainly within the lifetime of the book’s original and primary recipients.

The beginning of Revelation – The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:. (1:1)

The word “signified” (Greek word, semaino) most literally and graphically means “sign – ified”—i.e., making known or communicating with signs and symbols. Hence, if we take the Revelation precisely for what it is, visual parables of spiritual/physical reality, any believer can better understand it.

But the physical/material mindset denies or ignores the dimension of the spirit and blinds people to the spirit-world realities the book unveils. Once, however, we accept that God spoke in spirit-realm/physical-realm terms using signs and symbols, the Revelation begins to open up its treasures to us.
The end of Revelation – “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.” (22:10)
~Simeon Edigbe

WHAT’S YOUR VIEW OF THE RESURRECTION?
Chuck Crisco December 2, 2015
Did you ever really think about the resurrection? I mean the concept that one day your spirit will leave the perfect bliss of being in the eternal, incomprehensible joy of God’s presence in heaven, and suddenly come back to earth where the molecules of billions of people from all of history are reassembled into physical, albeit new, form? Suddenly graves will break open to the terrifying stares of unsuspecting people. It is called the resurrection, or at least a version of how the story goes.

Are you willing to re-think the resurrection? Did you ever wonder what the purpose of that event would be? Supposedly it is so that we can reign and rule with Christ over the planet and a handful of unbelievers left over from the tribulation. It is taught that Christ will reign in natural Jerusalem, which of course means that every resurrected saint would then only have access to him by appointment. Maybe once or twice over that period of history. Wouldn’t that be a step backwards in so many ways?
We want to leave heaven for a return to earth and all its limitations? How often would you get to see Jesus here? Would you schedule an appointment?
We want to leave heaven for a return to earth and all its limitations? How often would you get to see Jesus here? Would you schedule an appointment?
Of course, there might be a different view, an alternative perspective that takes all the scriptures into account, looks boldly and honestly at the text, and says, “wait a minute!”

Before you throw rocks at me and break your computer screen, let’s dispel a myth for a moment. Some will quote 2 Timothy 2:17-18 saying, “Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.”

I imagine we all agree in the resurrection of Christ, agreed? But Paul was writing about a group of people who were saying the resurrection of the dead had already taken place after the resurrection of Christ. How is that possible if the resurrection of the dead was to be a world-wide event in which graves were opened and spirits came into reassembled bodies? Wouldn’t that have been obvious? Not if the resurrection of the dead was supposed to be a spiritual event instead of a physical one.

Secondly, no one here is denying the resurrection, I am simply presenting you with a perspective in which the TIMING and NATURE of the resurrection is different. So this view affirms the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, but it differs with the so-called traditional view.

What I DO find fascinating is that some will read this article and then dismiss it because it doesn’t fit their existing paradigm. It can’t be true because they believe something different. But take the time to look at each passage on its own accord rather from the images that are already painted in your heart. You will discover that there are no scriptures that teach a physical resurrection in our future. Instead, the scriptures teach that when we die we will be raised into a spiritual body, into heaven, to be with the Lord forever. Let’s look…

The Hope of Israel:
Let’s not forget that the resurrection is an old covenant promise to Israel, through which Christ would bless the world. This is important because it was THEIR promise fulfilled at the end of the old covenant age, and we were incorporated into its outworking. In other words the resurrection was to occur (spiritually) in a corporate sense out of Hades in AD 70, as a promise to Israel, through which we were incorporated in an ongoing individual experience at the moment of our death. Therefore, we must look at what the Hebrew scriptures promised in conjunction with Paul’s text to determine the nature and the timing of the resurrection. Charles Meek says,

“At the Second Coming to occur during the lifetime of Paul’s contemporaries, there would be a culmination of the eschatological hope of the world. God’s Suffering Servant would bring salvation to Israel and to the world (Isaiah 42: 1-9; 49: 1-7; 52: 13-53: 12; 56: 1-8; Luke 21:28; Romans 13:11; Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 1:14; 9:28; 1 Peter 1:3-9). The promised new heavens and earth would include the gathering of the elect and of all nations into the covenant as promised in Isaiah 40:5; 49:5-6; 56:8, by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:31; 25:32), and reiterated by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:1. Israel would be reborn and restored, and this would include immortal-body resurrection of the righteous — and ultimately eternal life in heaven as promised to believers in Christ’s own resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 19). Meek, Charles S. (2014-11-24). Christian Hope through Fulfilled Prophecy: An Exposition of Evangelical Preterism (Kindle Locations 4141-4147). BookBaby. Kindle Edition.
The Timing of the Resurrection:
Contrary to popular opinion, the references to the resurrection are not in some far off future from the NT writers. Stop for a moment and carefully consider this. Daniel affirmed that the resurrection would be at the time when the “power of the holy people is shattered” referring to the temple and the system of Law, after saying it would be at the end of the “times, time and half a time.” This was in AD 70 when the Jerusalem was trampled by the Roman-Gentiles for 3 ½ years and the temple was destroyed. Does an angelic being SWEARING this to be true help? (See Daniel 12:7).

Secondly, did you know that Paul preached that the resurrection was near in his lifetime? In Acts 24:15 he said, “And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.” Translators, for theological reasons instead of translation reasons, avoid translating this accurately. The words “shall be” come from the Greek Strongs #3195 méllō – properly, at the very point of acting; ready, “about to happen.” (Helps Word Studies; Analytical Greek Lexicon, p. 262; Arndt, p. 500; Thayer, p. 396).

Paul uses this same word tense méllō, in 2 Timothy 4:1, “I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who (is about to) judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom.”

Again in a similar context in Mt. 16:27-28, “For the Son of Man is [about] to come in the glory of His Father with His angels…”

To throw the corporate resurrection into the future is to miss the power of their message!

Paul’s Doctrine of the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15.
If there was any text considered THE proof text for a future resurrection it is this passage. But, in fact, it seems to teach us a view completely contrary to our confusing modern picture. So let’s mine out these passages a section at a time.

15 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

We see that Jesus after his resurrection revealed himself to only a few people. It is a fact that Jesus told his disciples, “Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but ye will see me; because I live, you shall live also” (John 14: 19).

So he made a promise to them that the “world”, the kosmos, (Greek-inhabited world) would never see him again. How can this be if he is coming back to raise people from the dead and every eye will “see” him?

When John in Revelation 1:7 quotes Christ’s words, 1) he was speaking of their generation (even those who pierced him, the time is near), and 2), the word for “see” there is not with physical eyes, but with spiritual perception [Strongs 3708 horáō – properly, see, often with metaphorical meaning: “to see with the mind” (i.e. spiritually see), i.e. perceive (with inward spiritual perception).]

12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

Pay close attention to verse 19 because it is very telling. He speaks of this life (earthly) vs the next life (heaven-spiritual). He doesn’t speak of this life, and then a life in heaven, and then another life on the earth in a resurrected body, and then at the end of a 1000 years another kind of existence. He only points to the earthly and the heavenly. He is very clear and it is that contrast and comparison that continues throughout his discussion. Do you see it?

The Last Enemy Destroyed
20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 27 For “He has put all things under His feet.”

Let’s briefly address these one at a time.

The resurrection was to take place AT HIS COMING. I am writing primarily to those who already have a basic understanding of the parousia. Unfortunately, a lot of confusion happens because bible translators in many instances do a poor job of accurately communicating the text. I tend to believe it is because many translating organizations have a pre-existing theology which will not allow for anything else. In this case the text says τῇ παρουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ (THE coming-presence of him). Paul doesn’t suppose this is “a” coming of the Lord, but “THE” coming, as if there is only one and it is the singular one that all the other NT writers affirm was to happen in their generation.

AFTER HIS COMING IS THE END.

The “end”. It cannot mean the end of the world. Why? Because there is no scripture in the Bible that speaks of the world coming to an end. The new covenant age, the age of the gospel and the everlasting kingdom is one that never ends. Therefore that means that if one places the resurrection at some time at the end of history instead of at the end of the old covenant age, then there would NEVER be a resurrection because there are no scriptures that speak of the end of the entire cosmos. For example:

Ephesians 3:21, “Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”

Isaiah 9:7, “Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end…”

Psalm 148:4-6, “Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created. He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.”

Ecclesiastes 1:4, “One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.”

Mary heard the angel say, “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end” (Luke 1: 32-35).

Daniel 2:44, “And in the days of these kings [Roman Empire] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” (also see Daniel 7:13f)

How then can there be a resurrection at the end of the world if the world doesn’t end?

THEN HE DELIVERS THE KINGDOM TO THE FATHER.

So we were taught this verse as if there will be a period of history in our future, after Jesus has supposedly defeated physical death, and after the world has completely crumbled because of the devil and the tribulation, that THEN (apparently after a failed effort on the part of Jesus through his church to affect any real lasting change in the world) and ONLY then… Jesus gives the Father the kingdom and he abdicates it himself.

Is that really what this text says? Did we not just read that his kingdom is an everlasting one? Did we not see that of the increase of his kingdom there would be no end? How could Jesus kingdom end then?

This same word is used in verse 3 when Paul said he delivered the gospel to them. It doesn’t mean he abdicated the gospel. It doesn’t mean he abandoned it. It doesn’t mean that he had no connection to it. In some cases the word does mean that, but not here.

This word “delivers” is [3860 paradídōmi (from 3844 /pará, “from close-beside” and 1325 /dídōmi, “give”) – properly, to give (turn) over; “hand over from,” i.e. to deliver over with a sense of close (personal) involvement.] Remember Jesus was given the task of judging (Jn. 5:22) and at the end of that task, it simply means that he no longer has that task/job/responsibility anymore. In Isaiah 54, we discover that after “a little wrath” he swore an oath, with the same one-sided commitment that he did regarding Noah and the flood, that he would never be angry again, nor rebuke (speak harshly) nor remove his covenant of peace. So the meaning of the word itself here indicates not an abdication of the throne, but the completion of a task and an affirmation of partnership. Otherwise the eternally advancing kingdom isn’t!

Which brings us to Paul’s comment that he must reign in that capacity until he puts his enemies, particularly death, under his feet. I know, I know… people still die right? There are a couple of insights here that I think you ought to know. First of all we assume that he is speaking of physical death because we have been told that the death that Adam brought was physical death. But why then did they have food to eat in the Garden of Eden? Just for the sake of using their mouths for something other than talking? And if physical death was the result of Adam’s sin, then why do we still die when we believe in Christ? Why did those Jesus raised from the dead still die again? No, God said that on the VERY DAY that you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will SURELY die (Genesis 2:17).

But he didn’t. In fact, he didn’t die for hundreds of years. So what is the death of Adam that happened the very day he ate of the tree? It was a sin-death, a blindness, a spiritual thing! This is confirmed by the fact that (again) the translators left out the definite article “the” before “death.” This is not physical death, but THE death that Adam brought!

Acts 2:31; 13:35 reveals that Jesus’ physical body was the only one promised not to see decay.

It is interesting to me that he says that the last enemy destroyed is death, but the Greek is katargeó: (a) to render inoperative, abolish, idle down, make idle (inactive), make of no effect, annul, abolish, bring to naught, (b) I discharge, sever, separate from. The tense of this word means that it was ALREADY BEING destroyed AS he wrote this. Has he been working on this for 2000 years, or was it near in his generation… at the cusp?

In some way it was “death” that was keeping those in Hades-Sheol from entering the glory of heaven.

Persecution and the Hope of the Resurrection
29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? 30 And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

While I am not going to try to tackle those who were “baptized for the dead” here, (I never want to make a doctrine out of one single verse in the Bible) I DO want you to notice the context and reference Paul uses. Paul was experiencing such persecution from the Jews in every place (1 Thes. 2:14-16) that the only thing that gave him hope was that even if they destroyed his physical body… he had confidence that God would raise him up.

Notice his quote from Isaiah 22:13 (invoking particularly the context of 12-14). It is a prophetic word against Jerusalem itself and their stubborn disregard for the coming destruction of the city. It is no coincidence that he quotes it here:

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
Called for weeping and for mourning,
For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and drinking wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”14 Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts, “Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts. (12-14)
(Cont.)
~ Chuck Crisco

The Bible says Jesus was taken up and cover by a cloud. So when the angel said “he will return in the same manner” it means he will return in a cloud. That return in a cloud is not a physical one.

What it means is this.

Daniel 7:13

“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.”

So it is not speaking about a physical return.

It is this.

Daniel 7:14
He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

That happened in AD70.

Please note Jesus was already given this before he ascended.

Matthew 28:18-19
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

But then the job of establishing this kingdom on earth was given to the disciples till the end of the age of the old covenant. That is a reference to AD70.

When the old covenant was fulfill passed, Jesus new reign began on earth as it is in heaven.

That’s what coming in the clouds mean.

Matthew 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
~ Simon Yap

I have heard people say that it is a global tribulation because Jesus said “everyone will hate you because of me”.

Matthew 24:9

“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

Hence they say it’s way in the future.

I have always argued that Jesus was referring to the apostles as in “everyone will hate the apostles because of Jesus”. Hence its in the past.

I received a word from the Lord personally today. This is what he said.

I want us to note these verses first.

John 17:20-21

Jesus Prays for All Believers
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

You would note here John records for us Jesus’s prayer for all the believers. Notice the words “them alone” are actually referring to the apostles. The rest of the believers are referred to “those who believe through their message”.

So he could not have been talking about all believers when he said this and he said this before he turned to pray for the other believers in verse 21. Let’s look at the verses before that.

John 17:14
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

“The world has hated them”. This “them” therefore could only mean the apostles. It’s not a world wide tribulation.

The word “world” here does not mean the whole world but the system. That’s what “I am not of the world” means.

It’s AD70. That’s when the end of the “world” happened.
~Simon Yap

When we speak of fulfilled eschatology, people often wonder about the feasts. Are the feasts something we should celebrate today? Or, have all the feasts and their pictures been fulfilled, or do we await some later fulfilment picture in one of the feasts? Here is the answer: The feasts pointed to episodes in the finished work of Jesus. They have all been fulfilled. Let me explain:

1. Feast of Passover – Christ is our Passover, and He ate the passover meal with His disciples before going to the cross. This was fulfilled when He became the Passover Lamb at the cross.
2. Feast of Unleavened Bread – This was fulfilled as His body was the bread which was broken at the cross.
3. Feast of Firstfruits – This was fulfilled in His resurrection. He is the firstfruits of resurrection.
4. Feast of Weeks (Harvest or Pentecost) – This was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out.
5. Feast of Trumpets – This was fulfilled in the trumpet judgments of the harlot, old covenant system in 70ad.
6. Day of Atonement – Jesus was the atoning sacrifice, but the scapegoat was also part of the day of atonement, as the sins of Israel were put on its head, and it was led into the wilderness to be destroyed by the beasts. When the temple and city fell in 70ad, this was the picture of the scapegoat being destroyed by “the beast” (the Roman Empire). This has been fulfilled.
7. Feast of Tabernacles – This was the celebration of when Israel was released from Egyptian slavery and bondage and lived in tabernacles in the wilderness. Old Covenant Jerusalem was also a picture of Egyptian bondage, and when the city fell, the freedom from that slave system came as well. This has been fulfilled.

As Jesus said in Luke 21:22 “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled”. The days of vengeance were the events of the 70ad destruction of the temple and Jerusalem. Therefore, the concluding events of the 70ad destruction were also the concluding fulfillments to any lingering old testament prophecy, which was the “all things which are written”, the entire old testament.
~ David Duncan

THE PRETERIST PROMISE

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon

WE  HAVE  GOT  TO  LEARN  HOW  TO  PRESENT  ANOTHER  PERSON’S  OPINION  (WITH  WHOM  WE  DISAGREE)  ACCURATELY  AND  WITH  DIGNITY.  People rarely do this – so invested are they in showing the other person to be mistaken. 

Leave it to Jonathan Welton to write in his usual scholarly expertise exactly what I’ve been wanting to say.  

Here’s an excerpt from Jonathan’s newest blog post:

Part of what it means to disagree respectfully is to quote those you disagree with in a way that accurately presents what they said in context. Academics are very careful to do this, but unfortunately, many leaders in popular Christianity misrepresent those they disagree with. They take their words out of context and make assumptions about what others mean by what they have said. This sort of misrepresenting, misunderstanding, and attacking of others has been happening for a long time, but it is not honoring or helpful to approach disagreement this way. Instead, we need to learn how to disagree without disrespecting and without exaggerating. Our goal should be to understand the beliefs of others clearly and fairly so we can draw our own conclusions.

Most people think that the apostles immediately became the temple of the Holy Spirit after the cross. They didn’t. They became baptised with the Spirit at Pentecost.

They are also many think the apostles knew the Law was obsolete from Acts 1. No they only got that idea in Acts 15. 10 years after resurrection.

Hence I can’t understand why believers can’t accept the fact that not all believers were made the new temple of God until 40 years after the cross.

The bible speaks about the gathering of the 144,000 and the multitudes. It speaks about the destruction of the 1st temple before the coming of the new one.

Hebrews 9:8
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing.

The new spiritual Israel was being formed. It took them 40 years for an old generation to phase out and a new one to come in.
Simon Yap

The exquisite mathematical fine tuning within the quantum field strongly suggests that the building blocks of matter are in fact the product of the mind of God and not the product of pure random chance.
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth
Phil Mason