Two Episodes

Christ's resurrection is the guarantee of the future bodily resurrection of believers...the two resurrections, though separated in time, are not so much separate events as two episodes of the same event, the beginning and end of the one and same harvest.

 

Richard Gaffin, Resurrection and Redemption: How Eschatology and The Gospel Relate, Modern Reformation (Philadelphia, PA: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 1999), 24