There is no Rapture

[Dale]

Moses wrote those words before He walked out into the desert. He told them not to come looking, so he told them he would be buried, not that he was already buried. Moses was punished, unlike Elijah, who was obedient to God. Moses would never have a glorious departure from the earth, like Elijah did. But Moses still could enter Paradise.

Satan never got the body of Moses, which means it never returned to dust. Jude 1:9

"Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."

So, no one knows how Moses left the earth. If Satan had gotten the dead body, like all the other OT redeemed, except for Enoch/Elijah, then there would have been no dispute between when Michael transported Moses to Paradise, and death was to claim Moses' body.

Moses still had a body when he appeared on the mount of Transfiguration, with Elijah. They both would have come from Paradise for that moment. That was prior to even Lazarus coming out of the grave.

Tim to Fly: “Satan never got the body of Moses, which means it never returned to dust. Jude 1:9”

Jude was referring to a Hebrew folk story. He referred to a story that would be familiar to many hearers. I wouldn’t count on that being literally true.

Tim to Fly: “Moses still had a body when he appeared on the mount of Transfiguration, with Elijah.”

You don’t know that. The Transfiguration was a vision.

In John Gill’s commentary on II Kings 2:11 we find:

<< and Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven; body and soul; such a change
passing on him, as he went through the region of the air, which divested him of
his mortality and corruption, and fitted him for the invisible world. >>

Gill tells us that Elijah lost his mortal body on the way to heaven and arrived with a new body suited for paradise.

 

[Diamond72]

.....never mind... I went off topic in this post...so I deleted the content.

I never thought of that.

 

[Diamond72]

The Transfiguration was a vision.

What do you think a vision is? You do not think Jesus was really talking to them?

 

[Dale]

What do you think a vision is? You do not think Jesus was really talking to them?

In Revelation, John is given a series of visions. John talks to the angel who is his guide. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?