Raised up and quickened

With reference to John 5:21,29—The transformation of body is posterior to resurrection, as in the case of Jesus. The dead saints are first to be "raised," and afterwards "quickened." "As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." The Son will quicken those only of the raised up whose walk in the present state he approves. Many are "raised up" who are not "quickened." It is only those of the "raised up" who are pleasing to the Son that he quickens. Some of the "raised up" are awakened from the dust, as Daniel tells us, "to the reproaches and contempt of the Olahm" (Dan. 12:2); or, in the words  of Jesus, "they come forth for a resurrection of judgment" (John 5:29). The Son wills not to quicken them, but to drive them from his presence with eternal reprobation.of Jesus, "they come forth for a resurrection of judgment" (John 5:29). The Son wills not to quicken them, but to drive them from his presence with eternal reprobation.

The word quicken in the original is !hebrew!, and signifies to make alive. From the fact that all the raised are not "quickened," and yet are living in post-resurrectional contempt, it follows that the quickening is an operation superadded to the formation of living bodies from the dust of the ground. It is the making alive of living saints with life eternal. Hence, there is a certain predetermined order of development in the multitudinous Apocalypse of the Sons of the Deity (Rom. 8:19), as there was in the manifestation of Deity in spirit in the case of Jesus. And this order, as deduced from the premises before us, is apparently as follows:

1. Formation of body from the ashes of the dead

2. Impartation of life, making it a Body of Life

3. Appearance at the Tribunal of Christ (2 Cor. 5:10)

4. Quickening consequent upon approval; in other words, "ascending to the Father," so as to be consubstantial with Him (John 20:17).

Taken as a whole, these four elements constitute the RESURRECTION OF LIFE, in which the body is "raised in incorruption, in glory, in power, and spiritual," all of which is consequent upon the fourth element, or "the Son quickening whom he will." They are made perfect in one by "the spirit which quickeneth;" and when this Apocalypse is perfected, "the world will know that the Father did send Jesus, and hath loved them, as He had loved him," which is manifested in their being "like him, and seeing him as he is."