While not specifically called the "second resurrection", this takes place sometime after Revelation 20:5's "first resurrection".
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The rapture includes the first resurrection, where dead saints (followers of Christ), brought back to life and, with living saints, are gathered from the earth.
At the end of the Great Tribulation, Christ returns and rules the earth for 1000 years. Following this millennial reign, Satan is released from the pit and again rebels against God. After he is defeated everyone who has ever lived, not part of the first resurrection, is brought back to life to be judged:
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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