Revelation 20:5 Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. By the rest of the dead, here we may understand (per antithesin, and in contradistinction to them that had been killed, martyred, and slain; into whom the spirit of life from God had again entered) all those dead souls, who had worshipped the beast and his image, and had received his mark, whose names are not written in the Lamb’ s Book of Life, until these thousand years were finished, (or ended.) This is the first resurrection. That is, the raising of the slain witnesses. \ See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:7 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:8 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:9 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:11  \ Five things are here said of this first resurrection, viz. first, they are holy, that is, sanctified persons, who lived godly in Christ Jesus, in times of persecution. \ Secondly, they are blessed, \ with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things, in Christ Jesus. \ Thirdly,