RISING TO EVERLASTING LIFE: The Resurrection Texts for both Christians and Jews (paperback and e-book ISBN 978-1-61379-720-4) is a compendium of foundational texts that provide support to Jews and Christians regarding the final resurrection. This framework is essential for formulating the end-time scenarios of both religions.

These Biblical and extra-Biblical texts are used by both Christians and Jews to base their understanding, faith, and hope regarding the final resurrection of the dead. Both Christians and Jews were given the same promises of bodily resurrection prior to the days of the Messiah and the world to come, so how can we help but conclude that we are talking about the same event, and at the same time? Both Jews and Christians can look forward to God’s ultimate fulfillment of His purposes, and our faith in these promises can carry us both over the threshold of mortality to everlasting life.

Based on early Scripture, both Jews and Christians must analyze and be willing to change some of their present eschatological misconceptions. Both must understand that no one can enter the Messianic Kingdom without a bodily resurrection, but this is not meant for only one group or the other, because Jesus is God's Messiah for all humankind. Jesus, or Yeshua, is the fulfillment of the New Covenant for everyone, as prophesied in Jeremiah 31:31. Nevertheless, Christians need not convert to Judaism, nor should they expect Jews to become "Christianized" according to Gentile traditions, because it is God’s purpose to unite both sister religions into a single new spiritual entity for the climatic event of the final resurrection – together!

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