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To: tantiboh; TitansAFC; nowandlater
The scriptures list the three Nephites and John the Beloved as ministering on the earth until Jesus returns. The scriptures also discuss when a person is "tranlated" and taken up without dying.

The Bible also lists Elijah the prophet as not dying. Then There is Enoch and his city (thousands?) where the Bible explains what it means to be translated. Mormons believe that Moses was also translated. And Alma a Book of Mormon prophet.

GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES from lds.org

Translated Beings

Persons who are changed so that they do not experience pain or death until their resurrection to immortality.

Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him, Gen. 5: 24 (Heb. 11: 5; D&C 107: 48-49). No man knoweth of Moses’ sepulchre unto this day, Deut. 34: 5-6 (Alma 45: 19). Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, 2 Kgs. 2: 11. If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? John 21: 22-23 (D&C 7: 1-3). You shall never taste of death, 3 Ne. 28: 7. That they might not taste of death there was a change wrought upon their bodies, 3 Ne. 28: 38 (4 Ne. 1: 14; Morm. 8: 10-11). John the Beloved will live until the Lord comes, D&C 7. I have taken the Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom, D&C 38: 4 (Moses 7: 21, 31, 69). Enoch and his brethren are a city reserved until a day of righteousness, D&C 45: 12. Elijah was taken to heaven without tasting death, D&C 110: 13. The Holy Ghost fell on many, and they were caught up into Zion, Moses 7: 27.

Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Hebrews 11: 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Duet 34:5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. 7 ¶ And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Alma 45: 19 Behold, this we know, that he was a righteous man; and the saying went abroad in the church that he was taken up by the Spirit, or buried by the hand of the Lord, even as Moses. But behold, the scriptures saith the Lord took Moses unto himself; and we suppose that he has also received Alma in the spirit, unto himself; therefore, for this cause we know nothing concerning his death and burial.

25 posted on 07/18/2007 8:18:40 AM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Rameumptom; tantiboh; TitansAFC; nowandlater

Titans, I know this has already been fully answered by these good men, but let me just add the NT references to John the Beloved also getting this same gift from Jesus:

Matthew 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.

Mark 9:1
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Luke 9:27
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.


26 posted on 07/21/2007 10:17:23 PM PDT by sevenbak (After the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers... Acts 24:14)
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