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NASB | Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment, |
Subject: Reincarnation, scripturally founded? |
Bible Note: Hi, NYP! Scripture does not tells us that Elijah died... he was taken onto heaven as his servant Elisa watched... Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus, again there's no mention of Elijah's death... Reincarnation is a premise of a soul/spirit jumping into another person's body, at birth or a metamorphosis into a different existence (man to animal or plan or thing) due to a spiritual growth or punishment... in either case it is divorced from Christ's Incarnation and Resurrection which promises that we will be risen in our existing condition (man as man, woman as woman) into a glorify existence (spiritual being)... Elijah, as Enoch, was taken into Heaven... what happened then?... it has not been clearly revealed, but we know from Jesus' Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3-6) and His post resurrection appearances that our bodies will be changed into a spiritual being--not a thing or animal or sharing another person's body... Now, are Elijah and John the Baptist one and the same persons... only God knows... He does have the power to have placed him into the womb of Elizabeth: And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. (Matthew 3:9) 1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know." 4 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' " 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' " 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. (Ezekiel 37:1-10) God Bless! Angel |