How could Moses and Elijah see a vision of the future if they were asleep??
They were the vision of the future, for these folk.
Matt 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man
coming in his kingdom.
1 Cor 15 23 But
every man in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they that are Christ's at his coming. Moses and Elijah
Verses 17,18 And if Christ be not raised, your faith
is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also
which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. --- The resurrection of Christ is of most importance. Without the resurrection of the man Jesus, there is no
life for the
dead person, not body, but
person.
Matt 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye
which have followed me in the regeneration,
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. --- BTW, I moved a comma. Moses and Elijah will also be there in the regeneration.
Matt 20:21-23 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left,
in thy kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but
it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
That cup and baptism is death and resurrection into the kingdom of God.
! Thes 4:13,14 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Even so, says the very same thing as 1 Cor 15:23 every man in his own order, By being raised from the dead and or instant change as further stated in 1 Cor 15 in order to inherit, enter, the kingdom of God. God will bring those asleep in Jesus into the kingdom of God along with those still alive by resurrection and or instant change, incorruptible.
2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
The earthly house of tabernacle of person, the body will have to be changed into tour house which is from heaven or be raised from the dead in your house which is from heaven in order for you to be ever with the Lord.
1 Thes 4:16,17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. ---- And so καὶ οὕτως very, very important.
It also does not contradict 2 Cor 5. To ever be with the Lord one must have put on his house from heaved and no longer be in the earthly house of tabernacle and that does not take place until the adoption, the redemption of the body.
It was a vision post resurrection of Jesus and post resurrection of Moses and Elijah at the coming of the Lord.
