Those In The Resurrection Of Life Do Not Necessarily Look Like They Did Prior To Their Death
Matthew 28:16-20 reads,
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But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. 28:17When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted. 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 28:20teaching them to observe all things which I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."That Matthew 28:17 shows that some doubted suggests that those in the resurrection of life do not necessarily look exactly the same as they did prior to their death. For if Yah'shuah looked exactly the same it mighty not have been easy for some to doubt. But that doubt existed suggests that he might not have looked exactly as he did prior to his death, giving cause for the doubting to some of those who witnessed his visible presence.
Mark 16:9 reads,
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Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.Mark 16:12-13 reads,
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After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country. 16:13They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.It is therefore evident that those in the resurrection of life can change their physical appearance, appearing in one form to one person and appearing in another form to another person.
Luke 24:13-51 reads,
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Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. 24:14They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. 24:15It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them. 24:16But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 24:17He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"24:18
One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?"24:19
He said to them, "What things?"They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; 24:20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 24:21But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 24:22Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; 24:23and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24:24Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him."
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He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?" 24:27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 24:28They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.24:29
They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over."He went in to stay with them. 24:30It happened, when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. 24:31Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight. 24:32They said one to another, "Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?" 24:33They rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, 24:34saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" 24:35They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
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As they said these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."24:37
But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they saw a spirit.24:38
He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 24:39See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." 24:40When he had said this, he shown them his hands and his feet. 24:41While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"24:42
They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 24:43He took it, and ate in front of them. 24:44He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."24:45
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 24:46He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 24:48You are witnesses of these things. 24:49Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."24:50
He led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 24:51It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.Luke 24:15-18 notes that the two disciples did not recognise Yah'shuah at all while they walked along the road with him, for he was a stranger to them. In other words, though the resurrected Yah'shuah looked like a human being, his particular human appearance was one they had not seen before. Therefore those in the resurrection of life are able to change their human appearance into one not recognised by those they were known to prior to their death.
Those In The Resurrection Of Life Can Instantaneously Appear Or Disappear To Ordinary Human Beings
Luke 24:31 notes that resurrected Yah'shuah vanished out of the sight of the two disciples while they were at table with him eating. Those in the resurrection of life can therefore instantaneously disappear from human view after they have assumed human appearance and interacted with some humans.
Luke 24:36-37 shows that those in the resurrection of life can suddenly appear in the midst of a group of human beings still subject to death. Therefore just as they can suddenly disappear from their view, they can also suddenly appear to their view.
Those In The Resurrection Of Life Can Appear In Flesh And Bone Format
Luke 24:39 shows that those in the resurrection of life can appear in flesh and bone format, thereby appearing to be just as other human beings still subject to death. In fact, unless one actually knew that a particular flesh and bone person was not subject to death, one would not be able to distinguish between a flesh and bone person subject to death and one not subject to death.
Those In The Resurrection Of Life Eat Food
Luke 24:41-43 shows that those in the resurrection of life can eat food, even as humans subject to death can eat food.
Those Is The Resurrection Of Life Are Not Hindered By Physical Objects
John 20:14-23 reads,
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When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.20:15
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?"She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
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Jesus said to her, "Mary."She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
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Jesus said to her, "Don’t touch me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.’"20:18
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. 20:19When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."20:20
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." 20:22When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! 20:23Whoever’s sins you forgive, they are forgiven to them. Whoever’s sins you retain, they have been retained."Those in the resurrection of life are not hindered by physical obstacles, but can go wherever they will, with or without physical obstacles. These physical obstacles do not affect their existence in one way or another.
Those in the resurrection of life can breath, even though their lives do not depend on breath.
John 20:26-29 reads,
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After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you." 20:27Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing."20:28
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"20:29
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."Those In The Resurrection Of Life Are Able To Do Things That Other Humans Do
Genesis 18:1-8 reads,
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Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 18:2He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 18:3and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. 18:4Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 18:5I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant."They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
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Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." 18:7Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. 18:8He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.Those in the resurrection of life will be able to suddenly appear in human form to human beings still subject to death, and interact with these humans subject to death just as other humans would interact with them. For those in the resurrection of life can eat food just as humans subject to death eat food.
Genesis 18:16-22 reads,
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The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. 18:17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, 18:18seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." 18:20Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 18:21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."18:22
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.Genesis 19:1-11 reads,
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The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 19:2and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way."They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
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He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 19:5They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."19:6
Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. 19:7He said, "Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 19:8See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."19:9
They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. 19:10But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 19:11They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.Those In The Resurrection Of Life Can Vary Their Physical Power In Their Appearance
Genesis 32:24-30 reads,
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Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. 32:25When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled. 32:26The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks."Jacob said, "I won’t let you go, unless you bless me."
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He said to him, "What is your name?"He said, "Jacob." 32:28He said, "Your name will no longer be called ‘Jacob,’ but, ‘Israel,’ for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
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Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
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Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."It should be noted that angels, when they assume human format and appearance, can also assume limited human power. Such as the angel of Yahweh who wrestled with Jacob at night until the breaking of day. In Lot's case those two angels assumed power greater than that of humans, for they overpowered the men who pressed hard against Lot and rescued Lot, and subsequently struck those men with blindness. It therefore appears that those in the resurrection of life will be able to assume varying degrees of power when they appear in human format to humans still subject to death.
Those In The Resurrection Of Life Can Appear In Non-Human Formats Manifested In Nature
Exodus 3:1-6 reads,
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Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. 3:2The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3:3Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 3:4When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!"He said, "Here I am."
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He said, "Don’t come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground." 3:6Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
It appears that those in the resurrection of life will be able to appear not just in human format, but also in other formats represented in nature, such as fire.
Exodus 14:19-20 reads,
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The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. 14:20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn’t come near the other all the night.Judges 6:11-24 reads,
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The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 6:12The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor. 6:13Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then is all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian. 6:14Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you? 6:15He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. 6:16Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man. 6:17He said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me. 6:18Please don’t go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again. 6:19Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. 6:20The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so. 6:21Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight. 6:22Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, Lord Yahweh! because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face. 6:23Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don’t be afraid: you shall not die. 6:24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.The manifestations of the angel of Yahweh are typical of those of Yah'shuah after his resurrection from the dead, appearing as a human being and disappearing suddenly out of human sight.
Judges 13 reads,
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The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn’t bear. 13:3The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See now, you are barren, and don’t bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. 13:4Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing: 13:5for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn’t ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name: 13:7but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death. 13:8Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.13:9
God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her. 13:10The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the other day. 13:11Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I am. 13:12Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and how shall we do to him? 13:13The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. 13:14She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe. 13:15Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you. 13:16The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won’t eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn’t know that he was the angel of Yahweh. 13:17Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you? 13:18The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful? 13:19So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on. 13:20For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. 13:21But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.13:22
Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. 13:23But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these. 13:24The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him. 13:25The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.1 Chronicles 21:11-30 reads,
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So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will: 21:12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. 21:13David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.21:14
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 21:16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.21:17
David said to God, Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.21:18
Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 21:19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh. 21:20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21:21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 21:22Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 21:23Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give you the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all. 21:24King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most assuredly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost. 21:25So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.21:26
David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering. 21:27Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it. 21:28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 21:29For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 21:30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.[Previous Section] [Contents] [Next Section]
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