2) (Revelation 20:5) (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
WTBTS: The term "come to life" is actually figurative and does not mean the literal resurrection of the dead.
There are 2 destinations for all those who are resurrected - some go to heaven, but most stay on earth. Also, both resurrections will occur at approximately the same time - at the commencement of the millenium.
Revelation 20:5 states that the 2nd resurrection doesn't occur until after the 1000 years have ended, thereby rendering it a later resurrection.
The apostle Paul hoped that he would be raised in the earlier & better resurrection, the one which all the pre-Christian faithful ones in Hebrews 11 believed they would be given. Clearly, two separate resurrections for all those with an "earthly" hope, and occuring many years apart.
(Philippians 3:10, 11) ...to see if at all possible I may attain to the earlier resurrection from the dead.
(Hebrews 11:35) ....in order that they might attain a better resurrection.
Such ones - along with everyone who ever put faith in the Messiah - will share in the 1st resurrection, as Paul stated:
(1
Thessalonians 4:16) "...because the Lord himself will descend from
heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with
God’s trumpet, and
those who are dead in union with
Christ will rise first."
Those
not "in union with Christ" will be in the
later resurrection - 1000 years later, and will almost certainly be the majority of those mentioned at
Revelation 20:7-9.
If there is no
resurrection at the end of the 1000 years and all bad people are
being routinely destroyed during the millenium - as per
Isaiah 65:20-22 - then where do the multitudes of wicked
people in Revelation 20:7-9 come from if everyone has
finally "grown to perfection?"