"zach"  wrote in message
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> How do _you_ mean? Did God know Jeremiah before he was born?

Jehovah chose to foreknow what Jeremiah would be like.  However, Romans 9:11
makes clear that it is impossible for humans to do anything good or evil
before birth, so it was a case of foreknowledge, not actual acquaintance.

>Was John
> The Baptist  really Elijah (as Jesus said)?

No.  Peter wasn't Satan, either, even though Jesus directly addressed him by
that name (Mt. 16:23). Jesus used it as a dramatic illustration to prove a
point.  John the Baptizer denied being Elijah at John 1:21.  The angel had
not told John's father Zechariah that John would be Elijah, but that he
would have "Elijah's spirit and power" (Luke 1:17)

>Was the transfiguration a
> hallucination, or was that really Moses and Elijah there on the Mount
> with Jesus?

Jesus himself said that it was a *vision*.  (Mt. 17:9)

>When believers die, what is it that sleeps?

It is not literal sleep, it is like a switch being in the "off" position.
Life = "on", death = "off".

Death is *likened* to sleep, in that 1) the dead are unconscious, and 2) the
dead have a hope of being reawakened, as easily as we can awaken the living,
Jesus can and WILL awaken the dead, as he demonstrated while on earth.
(Eccl. 9:5, 10; Ps 146:4; Pr 2:18; Isa 26:14; Ps 6:5; Isa 38:18, 19; John
11:11-14; 1 Cor. 15:20, 21)

Peace to you and yours.


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