Mark 9:2
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.
Hello Myst,
Wow! Elijah and Moses are alive, and not dead, even before Jesus died for their sins upon His future Crucifixion! Elijah and Moses are right there talking to Jesus during His life time!
Jesus uses the resurrection to show the Omnipotent Power of God. Jesus assures the Sadducees that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive, and not dead. We know that it is only through the Power of Jesus death on the Cross that St. Abraham, St. Isaac and St. Jacob can rise into eternal life after death. We know that Jesus is Eternally Begotten of God, First, and at His future, in physical time, Resurrection. Yet all these Saints are walking around, already, before Jesus death on the cross. Now that truly is an Omnipotent God!
Jesus tells us that Abraham has already seen Jesus, Coming into His Kingdom, even before Jesus glory on the cross has happened. We on, physical time earth, have yet to see Jesus Come into His Kingdom, on earth. That happens at our near future apocalypse.
In the spiritual realm, all this physical time stuff, that God created upon Creation, has no hold on Saints. We are not talking 'predestination'. We are talking about Saints no longer having any constraints by the laws of physical time that God built into the physical creation of the Universe. Saints, judged into heaven by Jesus, upon their deaths, on earth, live outside of physical time.
Do you agree that people judged into heaven, at any point in physical time, live in the spiritual realm, outside the confines of physical time? Therefore Saints can go and 'Shout for Joy' as Jesus and the Father bring Creation into existence.
Mark 12:18
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Sadducees who hold there is no resurrection came to him with a question ...\\...12:24 Jesus said:
"You are badly misled, because you fail to understand the Scriptures or the power of God . When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but live like angels in heaven. As to the raising of the dead, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God told him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob'? He is the God of the living not of the dead, You are very much mistaken."
John 8:50
'Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.' (So) the Jews said to him, 'Now we are sure that you are possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.' Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?' Jesus answered, 'If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.' You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word. Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad. So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.'
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct. Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
Luke 20:37
Moses in the passage about the bush showed that the dead rise again when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead but of the living. All are alive for him.
JOB 38:7
Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who streched out the measuring line for it? Into what were its pedestals sunk, and who laid the cornerstone, While the morning stars sang in chorus and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High assigned the nations their heritage, when he parceled out the descendants of Adam, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the sons of God; While the LORD'S own portion was Jacob,His hereditary share was Israel.
Wisdom 5:5
See how he is accounted among the sons of God; how his lot is with the saints!