Scroll 59 - The First Resurrection

The Rising of the Elect Into Union and Radiant Embodiment

“Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power.” – Revelation 20:6
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” – John 11:25
“You were buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith.” – Colossians 2:12

1. The Resurrection Within

The first resurrection begins within, long before graves are opened or heavens part. It is the rising of the spirit from death into life, the unveiling of divine awareness within mortal form. When the soul awakens to union with the Lamb, resurrection begins. Every false identity falls away, and eternal life stirs in the marrow.

This awakening is not an escape from the world but a transfiguration within it. The resurrected ones still walk among men, yet they are no longer bound by fear or illusion. They breathe eternity while standing in time. Their sight pierces through decay, for they know death is but a veil over light.

The first resurrection is not an event to wait for; it is a state to live from.

2. The Death Before Death

Only those who have died before dying can rise in the first resurrection. The cross within precedes the crown without. To enter resurrection life, the ego must perish, the performer must fall silent, and ambition must be crucified in the secret chambers of the heart. This death is not defeat but doorway, the portal through which divine life floods into form.

The sons who walk in resurrection have been buried in surrender. Their hearts are tombs turned temples, their wounds transformed into windows of light. The Lamb’s blood has written its pattern within their being, a frequency of eternal renewal that nothing in creation can erase.

To truly live, one must first learn how to die well.

3. Rising With the Lamb

Resurrection is not imitation but participation. The first resurrection is the shared life of the Lamb manifesting through His body. When He rose, the blueprint of resurrection was embedded in all creation, an eternal echo waiting to be awakened in every son. Those who yield to the Spirit rise in His likeness, no longer living their own life but His through them.

They walk as mirrors of victory, vessels of the power that conquered death. Their gaze restores hope, their words restore life, their touch restores identity. They are not resuscitated from the past, they are reborn from eternity. Every breath they take proclaims the triumph of union: Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory?

The Lamb’s rising was not singular; it was the first of many flames.

4. Resurrection as Embodiment

The first resurrection is not merely spiritual but incarnational. It is life divine taking residence in flesh, not to escape it, but to glorify it. The resurrected ones carry incorruption in mortal skin. They live as bridges between heaven and earth, revealing what it means to be fully human and fully divine.

In them, matter bows to spirit, and biology remembers eternity. The cells of their bodies hum with the rhythm of resurrection, responding to the frequency of the I AM within. They are walking temples of new creation, bearing witness that redemption touches even the dust. Their embodiment is proof that resurrection is not a doctrine but a dimension.

They do not wait for glory; they wear it.

5. The Overcomers’ Inheritance

Those who partake in the first resurrection reign with Christ now. They govern not by hierarchy but by harmony, not by domination but by divine resonance. Having overcome the illusions of self, sin, and death, they carry authority rooted in rest. They are immune to manipulation because they no longer live from ego, they live from essence.

Their inheritance is dominion through meekness, wisdom through stillness, power through purity. The second death cannot touch them because there is nothing left in them to die. Their will is swallowed in His, their life hidden in flame. They reign not because they sought thrones, but because they became them.

These are the living witnesses of resurrection, those who govern from union, not ambition.

6. The Song of the Risen

The first resurrection has a sound, a frequency only the awakened can hear. It is the song of the Lamb echoed through those who have passed through death and returned as light. This sound restores creation, heals the broken, and summons the nations to awakening. It is the music of reconciliation, born from the silence of surrender.

Wherever these risen ones walk, decay reverses, and despair unravels. Their voice carries authority not of this world, for it was tempered in eternity. They do not preach resurrection; they embody it. Their every act, every glance, every word is an invitation for others to remember the life within.

Their song is the sound of creation being reborn.

7. The Eternal Now of Resurrection

The first resurrection does not wait for a trumpet blast in time. It resounds in the eternal now. Those who awaken to this truth no longer anticipate resurrection, they live from it. The Lamb’s victory is not history; it is happening. Every moment is charged with eternal life, every breath a declaration that death has lost its dominion.

To live in the first resurrection is to walk in perpetual dawn. Time bends, decay slows, and glory saturates the ordinary. These sons are not escaping the world; they are transforming it. Resurrection becomes rhythm, not event, a continuous unveiling of the eternal within the temporal.

For the risen, every step is ascension.

Final Charge to the Elect

Beloved, rise now. Do not wait for the trumpet; you are the sound it awaits. Let the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead awaken you fully from within. Let every shadow of fear, guilt, and delay dissolve before the dawn of realization. You have not been called to survive death, but to surpass it.

Live as one already risen, one who cannot die again. Walk among the living as light unbound by time. The first resurrection is not your destination, it is your design. Manifest it. Live from it. And let all creation see the proof that the Lamb reigns through you.

Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.