Later on, Beloved John while on earth and physically alive was given a vision into Heaven, as was Paul also, Neither of these instances were of an NDE category. It might be possible that John Boanerges and Saul/Paul, like Daniel in his old age, might have been in a catatonic styate whilst receiving a vision of which special revelation used the vision as a vehicle to impartr spiritual teruth, but it was to certified prophets, not NDE experiences nor earthly manipulations of Satan giving his disobedient fallible disbelieving children fake visions.
Satan has the power to conduct lying miracles and utterances to deceive the watching world. Be wise and not misled by them, of which we seem now to be in the middle of many of these special devilish powers.
Stand fast. Keep to the scriptures. Don't ne led to misinterpret them to supprt Satan in his workings, as he did at the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, testing him by misquoting and misapplying the words of God.
Put on the spiritual armor, of which the only offensive weapon is the memorizedand coerrectly applied Spoken Words (ρημα = hrayma, Strong's Number G4487 in his Concordance's Greek dictionary) of God.
I was speaking of the spirit of Elijah not a reincarnation of him.
NDE’s came up and I was speaking more on that issue when the subject of Elijah and Enoch was brought up.
I’ll never step beyond 1 John 4 when it comes to scripture and doctrine. If speculation starts to go beyond Christ being God and the WORD made flesh...that’s where I stop and make a stand.