Those In The
Resurrection Of Life Do Not Necessarily Look Like They Did Prior To Their Death
Matthew 28:16-20 reads,
28:16But
the eleven disciples went into
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,
16:9Now
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,
16:12After
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,
24:13Behold,
two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from
24:18One
of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in
24:19He
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
24:25He
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.
24:29They
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
24:36As
they said these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and said to
them, "Peace be to you."
24:37But
they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they saw a spirit.
24:38He
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?"
24:42They
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."
24:45Then
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."
24:50He
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,
20:14When
she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know
that it was Jesus.
20:15Jesus
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."
20:16Jesus
said to her, "Mary."
She turned and said to him,
"Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
20:17Jesus
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.’"
20:18Mary
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."
20:20When
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,
20:26After
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."
20:28Thomas
answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
20:29Jesus
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,
18:1Yahweh
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."
18:6Abraham
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,
18:16The
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."
18:22The
men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet
before Yahweh.
Genesis 19:1-11 reads,
19:1The
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."
19:3He
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."
19:6Lot
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."
19:9They
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,
32:24Jacob
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."
32:27He
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."
32:29Jacob
asked him, "Please tell me your name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my
name is?" He blessed him there.
32:30Jacob
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,
3:1Now
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."
3:5He
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,
14:19The
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,
6:11The
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,
13:1The
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.
13:6Then
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.
13:9God
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.
13:22Manoah
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,
21:11So
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.
21:14So
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.
21:17David
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.
21:18Then
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.
21:26David
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.
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