The morning of the first resurrection will resume for exaltation-worthy people at the end of the Second Woe just before the Second Coming after a 2000-year break.¹ After exaltation-worthy people are resurrected, four distinct groups of celestial-worthy people will be resurrected to the celestial kingdom during the millennium, including those that will become exalted Gods and those that will become unexalted angels only.² People in these four groups will be continuously resurrected throughout the millennium as their individual circumstances permit.

The first group of unexalted, but celestial-worthy, people will be those that receive the gospel in this life in any age before the Second Coming. The measure of their obedience to gospel law only qualifies them for resurrection as unexalted ministering angels in the celestial kingdom rather than exalted Gods.³ Since they will be unexalted angels, they cannot come forth in the morning of the first resurrection and they must wait until after the Second Coming to be resurrected in what is called the afternoon of the first resurrection.

The second group of people will be those that receive and accept the gospel at their first opportunity⁴ as disembodied spirits in the postmortal spirit world.⁵ These people qualify for resurrection in the celestial kingdom,⁶ including many who will qualify for exaltation.⁷ They resurrect after their earthly ordinances have been performed for them vicariously during the millennium⁸ by millennial mortal saviors on mount Zion.⁹ Those that receive their exalting ordinances by proxy after the Second Coming will be resurrected during the millennium in what will still be for them the morning of the first resurrection. If they are only celestial worthy, they will still resurrect during the millennium after their baptismal ordinances are performed, but it will be for them the afternoon of the first resurrection.

The third group of people consists of mortals who live during the millennium¹⁰ and receive their gospel ordinances as living ordinances for themselves.¹¹ Faithful people in this third group will immediately resurrect¹² to exaltation in the twinkling of an eye¹³ when they reach the age of a tree¹⁴ (100 years old).¹⁵ Most people that live during the millennium will be exalted during the morning of the first resurrection that will continue throughout the millennium.¹⁶ Their exaltation is virtually assured because they will grow up without testing¹⁷ in an environment that is largely without temptation.¹⁸ Nevertheless, millennial mortals retain their agency, and some will undoubtedly be less than fully faithful.¹⁹ Those that live celestial law but do not qualify for exaltation will be changed in the twinkling of an eye when they reach the age of a tree, but they come forth as unexalted angels in what will be for them the afternoon of the first resurrection. Some millennial mortals may fail to live celestial law completely, which means they cannot be resurrected to the celestial kingdom in either the morning or afternoon of the first resurrection.²⁰ Those that fail to live celestial law during the millennium are wicked‒relatively speaking.²¹ Isaiah states that they will die accursed and their bodies will lie in the grave until the end of the millennium.²² They will resurrect with terrestrial bodies in the evening of the first resurrection or to a worse condition depending on the measure of their wickedness.²³

The Lost Ten Tribes will be the fourth group of people that will resurrect after the Second Coming. They will resurrect from their translated condition to a state of exaltation during the millennium in what will be for them the morning of the first resurrection. This will occur only after they first receive their exalting ordinances from the tribe of Ephraim at the temple of New Jerusalem located at Independence, Missouri.²⁴

The celestial resurrection of these four groups will occur after the Second Coming at a time when both the morning and afternoon of the first resurrection are taking place concurrently throughout the millennium. The afternoon will begin as the second trump sounds in Doctrine and Covenants Section 88:99 for those that "are Christ's at his coming."²⁵ According to this verse, unexalted angels that are resurrected to the celestial kingdom in the afternoon do not have to wait until the end of the millennium to be resurrected because they also are Christ's at his coming.

The foregoing discussion interprets the second trump in verse 99 as a second stage of the celestial resurrection, although most scholars and leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints interpret this second trump as the start of the terrestrial resurrection.²⁶ This is why many members of the church also believe that the terrestrial resurrection will commence soon after the Second Coming at the start of the millennium rather than the end. Unfortunately, this interpretation is not consistent with John's vision in Revelation 20:4-5, where he states that the "rest of the dead [i.e., the terrestrial dead] lived not again until the thousand years were finished."²⁷ It seems self-evident that if the terrestrial resurrection begins at the start of the millennium, then the celestial resurrection must correspondingly end because the resurrection proceeds sequentially from highest to lowest. If the celestial resurrection is cut off or ends because the terrestrial resurrection begins soon after the Second Coming this would be disastrous for all the celestial-worthy people that live during the millennium. These unfortunate people would apparently forfeit the blessings of a celestial-resurrection only because they were born too late or because their vicarious ordinances weren't performed by the time the celestial resurrection ended at the start of the millennium.²⁸

Hypothetically speaking, if the celestial resurrection were to end and the terrestrial resurrection were to begin at the start of the millennium, then God's work and glory to bring to pass the eternal life of his mortal children would be frustrated in the extreme.²⁹ This is true because the Order of Resurrection is sequential, from highest to lowest according to the law of obedience.³⁰ Therefore, if the terrestrial resurrection begins at the start of the millennium, then billions of children born during the millennium³¹ would be worthy³² of exaltation and eternal life,³³ but they would be denied that blessing only because they were born after the celestial resurrection was already complete. They would, therefore, be consigned to the terrestrial kingdom through no fault of their own.³⁴ Such an outcome would make God a respecter of persons and he would cease to be God.³⁵

Since God is not a respecter of persons, the morning and afternoon of the first resurrection must be continuous for all celestial-worthy people (both exalted and unexalted) for the entire period of the millennium.³⁶ After all celestial-worthy people have been resurrected in the morning and afternoon, the evening of the first resurrection for all terrestrial-worthy people will occur in one large group at the end of the 1000-year millennium.³⁷