In this light, the Scriptures are a progressively apocalyptic revelation from God concerning the culmination of history in the day of the Lord, which exorcises sin and death from the heavens and from the earth, restoring to creation its original glory. As such, the Bible is also theologically symmetrical—as it begins in Genesis, so it concludes in Revelation. In the beginning there is the creation of all things by the hand of God, the planting of the garden of Eden with the tree of life, the marriage of Adam and Eve, the victory of Satan through human sin, and the subsequent entrance of death and suffering. In the end, however, there is the new creation of God, the restoration of Eden and the tree of life, the marriage of Jesus (the “last Adam”) and his bride (the redeemed), the overcoming of Satan through the final judgment upon human sin, and the subsequent eradication of death and suffering. The Judeo-Christian faith is set within this broad structure. Protology and eschatology are not parts or aspects of biblical theology; they are, rather, the framework within which all theology is understood. - John P. Harrigan

The order of death under which humanity now languishes will be dramatically overthrown in an event inaugurated by the day of the Lord called “the resurrection of the dead” (Matt. 22:31; Acts 23:6; 1 Cor. 15:21, 42; Heb. 6:2). Lying at the heart of the new creation model, this event will be the ultimate creative miracle of God—“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” (1 Cor. 15:52)—instantaneously reversing mankind’s existential train wreck. Indeed, “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” (1 Cor. 15:54). Death is neither normal nor natural. The heart of the Jewish apocalyptic hope is a new heavens and new earth, inaugurated by the day of God, when death itself is overcome and “swallowed up.” - John P. Harrigan

As good creational monotheists, mainline Jews were not hoping to escape from the present universe into some Platonic realm of eternal bliss enjoyed by disembodied souls after the end of the space-time universe. If they died in the fight for the restoration of Israel, they hoped not to “go to heaven,” or at least not permanently, but to be raised to new bodies when the kingdom came, since they would of course need new bodies to enjoy the very much this-worldly shalom, peace and prosperity that was in store. - NT Wright

My teaching on Jesus raising the dead young man in Nain from Luke 7. Notes. Audio 1. Audio 2.