Featured Peter's oblivion in the transfiguration.

read in another place and youll see it was only a Vision ---how could it had been real when Moses and Elijah were still dead ?????????the resurrection hadn't occurred yet.

Vision only there of what was to come.

 

Matthew 17-9---the same event

And as they came down from the mountain,Yeshua charged them,saying,Tell the VISION to no man,until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

 

Not knowing what he said is sometimes rendered (NIV) he did not know what he was saying. This again is taken to mean, he did not know what to say, so he said something inappropriate. The HCSB links the phrase to Mark 14:40 which says, after being caught sleeping, they did not know what to say. Mark 9:6, part of the parallel account in Mark, indicates Peter did not what to say because they were terrified. A few verses later, only Jesus was present, suggesting Peter was confused, thinking the vision was real, and thus the aberrations would need physical lodging. Matthew (17:4-5) indicates they became terrified when the cloud and voice occurred, after Peter had started speaking and while he was still speaking.

Gill's commentary includes this understanding: [Peter]" being ignorant of the design of this appearance; which was, not that this glory should continue, only that he should be an emblem and pledge of what was future; and besides, he was wrong in putting these two men upon an equal foot with Christ, each of them being to have a separate tabernacle as he; and he appeared to be quite out of the way, in proposing earthly tabernacles for glorified persons to dwell in, who had an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: moreover, as to the mystical sense, Moses and Elias, the law and the prophets, were not to be considered as in distinct apartments, and separate from Christ, but as agreeing with him, and fulfilled and swallowed up in him; who only, according to the voice that followed, was to be heard and attended to, and not they, as distinct from him. "

 

NASB translation of Philippians 2:11 says every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord, indicating acceptance of Jesus as God Almighty, not the robotic coercion of their tongue so they say what they did not autonomously accept.

 

They'll confess that Jesus is Lord because they will know, and it will be too late for those who failed to believe.

 

Spot on, Convicted1, spot on!!

 

No, the bible teaches those in Hades go to the great white throne judgment, confess Jesus is Lord, but too late, and then because their names were not written in the Lamb's book of life, go into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.

 

The issue is not whether God can coerce a tongue, of course He can, but whether at the great white thrown judgement, the confession is by their own initiative.

 

Again, God is All Powerful and can do all things, nothing is impossible for God. But just because God can do something does not demonstrate God actual did something. Here is an illustration:

God could put invisible pink elephants in orbit around Mars. Nothing in the Bible says He did not. So He is able, and the Bible says He put everything in the heavens in the heavens. So can we say, God put invisible pink elephants in orbit around mars. No. We must stick with what God says He did, not what we might speculate God has the power to do.

Thus when we read scripture, we do not ask, what is the most that could be poured in by man's speculation, but rather, what is the least that is being said, so we do not take away, but also we do not add.

Here is another illustration, when escaping from Pharaoh, God parted the "red" sea. Does that mean when any believer is trying to escape persecution, God will miraculously provide an escape route? No. Because we are already in the "ark" of Christ, we have already escaped the real threat to our lives.