Track the estimated time frames for God’s resurrection cues—and actual sneak-peek resurrection accounts.
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It wasn’t just one account. God has been demonstrating his end-of-times purpose for thousands of years. Check out this estimated timeline of His resurrection cues in Scripture and the actual sneak-peek resurrection accounts.
1406 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Song of Moses about God’s might. Moses was the leader-deliverer of Israel from Egypt, God’s mouthpiece and humble prophet who spoke with God face to face.
See now that it is I!
I am the One, and there is no god like Me!
I cause death and make alive
[restore life back from the dead, per the Hebrew].
I strike, but I heal, and no one can rescue from My Hand!
—Deuteronomy 32:39
1100 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Hannah. Mother of the prophet Samuel and a faithful servant of the Lord; she prophetically said this after a mighty move of God that made her longtime barren womb fertile:
There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God.
The Lord brings death and makes alive
[restores the dead to life, per the Hebrew];
he brings down to the grave and raises up.
It is not by strength that one prevails;
those who oppose the Lord will be broken.
The Most High will thunder from heaven;
the Lord will judge from heaven;
the Lord will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed.
—1 Samuel 2:2,6,10
1044 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. David. King of Israel, prophet, psalmist, a man after God’s own heart. His Davidic throne will seat the Messiah.
You will not abandon my soul to the grave;
You shall not allow your pious one to see the pit.
—Psalm 16:10
1000 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Also ascribed to King David.
You who have made me see many troubles
and calamities will revive me again
you will revive me
[restore to life from the dead, per the Hebrew]
from the depths of the earth
You will bring me up again.
—Psalm 71:20
863 BCE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek account. Elijah (Eliyahu, in Hebrew). Renowned, zealous prophet of Israel; under God’s power, Elijah resurrected a widow’s child. 1 Kings 17:10-14.
849 BCE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek account. Elisha. Elijah’s disciple who carried on the mantle of Elijah’s prophetic work; Elisha resurrected a Shunammite’s child. 2 Kings 4:20-37.
812 BCE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek account. Elisha’s tomb. Well after Elisha died and his body placed in a burial cave, some men buried a dead man’s body in that cave—but when the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man was resurrected. 2 Kings 13:20-21.
753 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Hosea. A major prophet ministering in the Northern Kingdom of Israel; his life, a symbol in God’s hands demonstrating God’s unfathomable love for His unfaithful people.
After two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live in His sight.
—Hosea 6:2
725 BCE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Isaiah. A mighty prophet and a surrendered vessel in God’s hands for Israel, Messianic prophecies, and end-times events.
Your dead will live;
Their corpses will rise.
You who lie in the dust [are dead], awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.
—Isaiah 26:19
539 BCE (approximate).Resurrection cue. Daniel.A courageously faithful prophet and dream interpreter of the Lord during the Babylonian captivity; a vehicle for God’s voice regarding many end-times prophecies.
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth [the dead]
shall awake to everlasting life
and others to everlasting reproach and abhorrence.
—Daniel 12:2
28 CE (approximate). Resurrection cue. Jesus (Yeshua, his Hebrew name). Renowned rabbi, prophet, and for those with ears to hear, Messiah.
For an hour is coming,
in which all who are in the tombs
will hear his voice and will come forth;
those who have done good will come to a resurrection of life,
those who have done evil will come to a resurrection of judgment.
—John 5:28-29
28-57 CE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek accounts: four of them. Witnessed by many. John 11:1-44; Mark 5: 21-43; Luke 7:11-16; Matthew 27:50-53.
33 CE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek account. Jesus’s (Yeshua’s) resurrection.The most powerful resurrection event—even some Jewish scholars don’t deny it. Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-8; John 20:1-13.
34-57 CE (approximate). Resurrection sneak-peek accounts: two of them. Witnessed by many. Acts 9:36-41; Acts 20:7-12.
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RELATED RESOURCES
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Royot, Daniel (2002), “Poe’s humor”, in Hayes, Kevin J, The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe, Cambridge University Press, pp.61–2, ISBN 0-521-79727-6.
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Book of Acts timeline. https://biblehub.com/timeline/acts/1.htm
