The First Resurrection (Revelation 20:1-6)

The First Resurrection (Revelation 20:1-6)
The First Resurrection of the living will occur immediately, when those on earth who are faithful or accepted God’s mercy will be judged according to what deeds they have done and enter into their reward. In this resurrection, the saints in Heaven (with the souls who had been in Purgatory) and the faithful alive on earth will receive luminous glorified beautiful (perfected, holy) bodies to reign forever and ever with God in the New Paradise on earth and in Heaven

The earthly elements will be dissolved by fire and the heavens will be dissolved in flames (2 Peter 3:10)

As the trumpet of the Lord’s messenger rings out, the dead in Christ (the “spiritually living”) will be raised first, as well as, those on earth whose names are in the Book of the Living, to enjoy Eternal Life in the 1,000 years of the New Kingdom:

First the Saints are raised: “For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4: 16). “I saw the souls of those who had been (martyred during the Great Persecution). They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4-6).
Then the faithful remnant and those who accepted God’s mercy will be resurrected: “Now I am going to tell you a mystery: we are not all going to fall asleep, but we are all going to be changed, instantly, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. The trumpet is going to sound, and then the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-2) “Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them (the Saints) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4: 17)
Those who are on earth at the time of the Second Coming and who are faithful to God or who accept His mercy will be lifted with Jesus, in the blink of an eye, without suffering, to the New Heavens and Earth and given perfect immortal physical bodies in mystical union with Christ. While the wicked and all who followed the false prophet and antichrist will be left behind, to be thrown like them into the lake of fire by the Angel of the Lord where they will suffer for eternity. This is what is meant when the biblical prophecy of the Second Coming speaks of one being taken and the other left behind (Matthew 24:40-41).

The just (and those who accepted God’s mercy) who survived the final end-time battle on earth will live with Christ and the Saints for 1000 years in the New Kingdom on the new earth in the new World, as foretold in prophecy. They will receive the Gift of eternal life when Heaven and Earth become one. This is what is meant as the New Paradise on earth.

The earth will be transformed (returned to its original state before Original Sin) into the new heavens and a new earth where only righteousness dwells, thus commencing the millennial era of peace