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To: Ping-Pong; Enosh
Hello Ping

"... Enoch and Elijah are in view in that passage?"

What about Moses and Elijah? The lawgiver and the prophet.

I vote for Enoch and Elijah. I don’t know for sure, but look again at the passage you quoted and add verse 7 (Deuteronomy 34:5-7).

Deut 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Moses was the lawgiver. The eye of the law was not dim nor was its force abated. God took the law out of the way and buried it because the children of Israel could not inherit the promise under the law. I think this takes a point away from Moses, but you get a point when you look at the miracles in Revelation 11.

Rev 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: (1 Kings 17:1 ) and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
These are the things that Moses and Eliah did.

Seven

576 posted on 04/11/2007 10:46:52 PM PDT by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Seven_0
Hi Seven,

Long time no write. It's good to hear from you.

As usual you have given a deeper meaning than I thought of. The eye of the law was not dim nor was its force abated. God took the law out of the way and buried it because the children of Israel could not inherit the promise under the law

Thank you for your deeper insight. You know, rather than take a point away I think it gives Moses one, just because he is the lawgiver. Add that to being on the Mt of Transfiguaration and the miracles of Rev. 11 that you brought up - it just seems that Moses would be one of the witnesses. At least, that's my take on the situation.

Seven, I know you think the end times are farther off but I wonder if perhaps they are walking the earth now.

578 posted on 04/12/2007 7:23:52 AM PDT by Ping-Pong
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To: Seven_0; Ping-Pong
"These are the things that Moses and Eliah did."

That's the very sentiment which got Moses and Aaron into trouble. (Numbers 20:9-12)

It's God's power, not man's, and He can loan it out to whoever He likes.

Of course, that line of thought usually opens a can of worms concerning the nature of Good and Evil and almost always concludes with a study of the Book of Job.

God Bless.

579 posted on 04/13/2007 5:15:45 AM PDT by Enosh (†)
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