From Pastor Paul Schulz: Johann Gerhard’s List of Old Testament and Apocrypha Passages that Prophesy the Resurrection Genesis 3:15, 4:10, 9:5, 12:3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, 28:14 Exodus 3:6 “And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.” 3:15 “God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.” Numbers 24:5 “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!” Deuteronomy 33:6 “Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few.” Job 19:26 “And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God” 13:15 “Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.” 14:15 “You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.” 17:14 “if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’” 19:25 “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” Psalms 3:5, 16:9, 17:15, 22:26, 30:1, 34:20, 41:10, 50:3-4, 68:20, 72:17, 90:3, 103:2, 4-5, 104:30, 116:8-9 Proverbs 24:27 “Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. 1 Samuel 2:6 “The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.” Isaiah 25:7 “And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples the veil that is spread over all nations.” 26:19 “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.” 35:10 “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” 38:16 “O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!” 66:13-14, 16 “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies...For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.” Jeremiah 31:16-17 “Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.” Ezekiel 37:1-6 “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.” Daniel 12:2 “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Hosea 13:14 “I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.” Zephaniah 3:8 “Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.” Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall” Apocrypha 2 Maccabees 7:9, 11 “but with his dying breath he cried out to the king, You butcher! You may kill us, but the King of the universe will raise us from the dead and give us eternal life, because we have obeyed his laws. The soldiers began entertaining themselves with the third brother. When he was ordered to stick out his tongue, he quickly did so. Then he bravely held out his hands and courageously said, God gave these to me. But his laws mean more to me than my hands, and I know God will give them back to me again. The king and those with him were amazed at his courage and at his willingness to suffer.” 12:44 “If he had not believed that the dead would be raised, it would have been foolish and useless to pray for them.” Sirach 48:11 “Fortunate are those who live to see you come, as well as those who have already died in love, for we too shall live. 2 Esdras 2:16 “And I will raise up the dead from their places and bring them out from their tombs, because I recognize my name in them.” 2:31 “Remember your children who sleep, because I will bring them out of the hiding places of the earth and will show mercy to them, for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.” 4:41-42 “And I said, “No, lord, it cannot.” He said to me, “In Hades the chambers of the souls are like the womb. For just as a woman who is in labor makes haste to escape the pangs of birth, so also do these places hasten to give back those things who were committed to them from the beginning.” 6:21 “Children a year old shall speak with their voices, and pregnant women shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and leap about.” 7:31-32 “After seven days the world that is not yet awake shall be roused, and that which is corruptible shall perish. The earth shall give up those who are asleep in it and the dust those who rest there in silence, and the chambers shall give up the souls that have been committed to them.”
From Pastor Paul Schulz: Johann Gerhard’s List of Old Testament and Apocrypha Passages that Prophesy the Resurrection
Genesis 3:15, 4:10, 9:5, 12:3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, 28:14
Exodus 3:6 “And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.”
3:15 “God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.”
Numbers 24:5 “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!”
Deuteronomy 33:6 “Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few.”
Job 19:26 “And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God”
13:15 “Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.”
14:15 “You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.”
17:14 “if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’”
19:25 “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.”
Psalms 3:5, 16:9, 17:15, 22:26, 30:1, 34:20, 41:10, 50:3-4, 68:20, 72:17, 90:3, 103:2, 4-5, 104:30,
116:8-9
Proverbs 24:27 “Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
1 Samuel 2:6 “The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.”
Isaiah 25:7 “And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples the veil that is spread over all nations.”
26:19 “Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.”
35:10 “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
38:16 “O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!”
66:13-14, 16 “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies...For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.”
Jeremiah 31:16-17 “Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.”
Ezekiel 37:1-6 “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
Daniel 12:2 “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Hosea 13:14 “I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.”
Zephaniah 3:8 “Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.”
Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall”
Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 7:9, 11 “but with his dying breath he cried out to the king, You butcher! You may kill us, but the King of the universe will raise us from the dead and give us eternal life, because we have obeyed his laws. The soldiers began entertaining themselves with the third brother. When he was ordered to stick out his tongue, he quickly did so. Then he bravely held out his hands and courageously said, God gave these to me. But his laws mean more to me than my hands, and I know God will give them back to me again. The king and those with him were amazed at his courage and at his willingness to suffer.”
12:44 “If he had not believed that the dead would be raised, it would have been foolish and useless to pray for them.”
Sirach 48:11 “Fortunate are those who live to see you come, as well as those who have already died in love, for we too shall live.
2 Esdras 2:16 “And I will raise up the dead from their places and bring them out from their tombs, because I recognize my name in them.”
2:31 “Remember your children who sleep, because I will bring them out of the hiding places of the earth and will show mercy to them, for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.”
4:41-42 “And I said, “No, lord, it cannot.” He said to me, “In Hades the chambers of the souls are like the womb. For just as a woman who is in labor makes haste to escape the pangs of birth, so also do these places hasten to give back those things who were committed to them from the beginning.”
6:21 “Children a year old shall speak with their voices, and pregnant women shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and leap about.”
7:31-32 “After seven days the world that is not yet awake shall be roused, and that which is corruptible shall perish. The earth shall give up those who are asleep in it and the dust those who rest there in silence, and the chambers shall give up the souls that have been committed to them.”