What does Resurrection mean?

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (G # 2837) (Dead), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose (G #450) (Resurrected) again, even so them also which sleep (G # 2838) (Rest in Jesus) (Mansion) in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise (G # 450) first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

If you will notice the word resurrection is not used in these verses above

Context is everything when understanding the resurrection. There are 3 basic meanings to the word itself. 1 -To raise from the dead, 2-to raise to a higher level of thinking- and 3-moral recovery of a spiritual truth.
There are only 3. The first explanation; Lazarus would be a good example, he was resurrected from being dead after being dead for 4 days to the point of stinking. This is a specific reference to his carnal body being resurrected back to life.
The other side of the first explanation; Jesus was resurrected or raised (rose again) but not His carnal body. He was resurrected to His spiritual body that looks exactly like His old flesh body but they are not one in the same. Keep in mind Jesus is God and he was taken flesh and all to heaven. He was also transfigured along with Moses and Elijah on the mount of transfiguration.
Ecclesiastes 12:6 and 7 tell us that regular people like you and me are separated at death (Harpadzo). When you die you are resurrected at that moment to your spiritual body, not at some later point of time. It happens in the moment of a twinkling of the eye as 1 Corinthians 15:52 explains. The corruptible body goes back to the dirt and will never be needed again, you are done with it.
Second explanation; 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

In a sense the new man after being saved has been resurrected or raised to a higher level of existence or thinking. The spiritual man has been awakened.

Third explanation; When you backslide and then turn back to God you will have a moral recovery of your faith and the truth. You are resurrected through forgiveness back to good standing with God.
I listened to some knucklehead the other day who has no business teaching a goat roping much less Gods word. He said at the rapture the spirit body and the old flesh body will join back together when the body comes out of the ground like a zombie and joins the spirit body in the air.
This is so ridiculous I had to laugh. Nowhere in God’s word is this mentioned except when Christ rose again and people at that time came out of their graves as a onetime event to proclaim the miracle of Jesus death burial and resurrection. (Matthew 27:53)
The concept of rejoining the corruptible and incorruptible bodies back together at the second coming contradicts 1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Resurrected

(You must die at the 7th trump and be changed at this time)

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 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.
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
The above verses are a clear contradiction of rejoining the spirit and flesh at the second coming
There are 4 words you must understand in 1 Thessalonians 4 and they are sleep, asleep, rise and rose.
What you must understand is where the dead are raising from; a hole in the ground? or are they raising up from paradise where all spirit bodies reside? The way in which the words are used here indicates they are raised from Paradise to the Millennium, from one plain of existence to another.
Paradise is a place of holding until the Millennium begins for both the quick and the dead. One of the Greek words used to describe it is Hupnos, it seems to be saying it is a place of holding or suspension in time.
The quick and the dead are described in the Greek as: nekros, hoi nekroi, ek nekron and 'ek ton nekron.
Rise and Rose are the same Greek word
G # 450 anistémi: to raise up, to rise Original Word: ἀνίστημι Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anistémi Phonetic Spelling: (an-is'-tay-mee) Definition: to raise up, to rise Usage: I raise up, set up; I rise from among (the) dead; I arise, appear. arise, jump up, stand up. From ana and histemi; to stand up (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive) -- arise, lift up, raise up (again), rise (again), stand up(-right). see GREEK ana see GREEK histemi

1. anistemi (ana, Appendix 104. i, histemi) is either transitive or intransitive, according to the tense, etc., and means to make to stand up, that is to say, to raise up, or to rise up, arise, rise again. It occurs 111 times, thirty-five of which refer to resurrection. See (for example) Matthew 17:9; 20:19. John 6:39, 40, 44, 54.
2476 histémi: to make to stand, to stand Original Word: ἵστημι Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: histémi Phonetic Spelling: (his'-tay-mee) Definition: to make to stand, to stand Usage: trans: (a) I make to stand, place, set up, establish, appoint; mid: I place myself, stand, (b) I set in balance, weigh; intrans: (c) I stand, stand by, stand still; met: I stand ready, stand firm, am steadfast.
G # 386 anastasis: a standing up, i.e. a resurrection, a raising up, rising Original Word: ἀνάστασις, εως, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: anastasis Phonetic Spelling: (an-as'-tas-is)
Definition: a standing up, a resurrection, a raising up, rising
Usage: a rising again, resurrection. raised to life again, resurrection.
From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth) -- raised to life again, resurrection, rise from the dead, that should rise, rising again. see GREEK anistemi

Asleep G # 2837 koimaó from G2749: sleep, fall asleep, die Original Word: κοιμάομαι Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: koimaó from NG2749 Phonetic Spelling: (koy-mah'-o) Definition: sleep, fall asleep, die Usage: I fall asleep, am asleep, sometimes of the sleep of death.
Sleep G # 2838 koimésis: a resting Original Word: κοίμησις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: koimésis
Phonetic Spelling: (koy'-may-sis) Definition: a resting
Usage: repose, taking rest, sleep.
The Resurrection as it is used in Revelation
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 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.
Used 40 times in the NT
G # 1815 exanastasis: a rising again Original Word: ἐξανάστασις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: exanastasis
Phonetic Spelling: (ex-an-as'-tas-is) Definition: a rising again
Usage: a rising up and out, resurrection. resurrection. From exanistemi; a rising from death -- resurrection. see GREEK exanistemi

G # 1454 egersis: a rousing, a rising (from death) Original Word: ἔγερσις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: egersis Phonetic Spelling: (eg'-er-sis) Definition: a rousing, a rising (from death) Usage: a waking up, resurrection. resurrection. From egeiro; a resurgence (from death) -- resurrection. see GREEK egeiro

G # 2476 histémi: to make to stand, to stand Original Word: ἵστημι
Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: histémi Phonetic Spelling: (his'-tay-mee)
Definition: to make to stand, to stand Usage: trans: (a) I make to stand, place, set up, establish, appoint; mid: I place myself, stand, (b) I set in balance, weigh; intrans: (c) I stand, stand by, stand still; met: I stand ready, stand firm, am steadfast. cause to stand, establish, hold up
A prolonged form of a primary stao stah'-o (of the same meaning, and used for it in certain tenses); to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively) -- abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up). Compare tithemi. see GREEK tithemi

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