Are you saying that Elijah or Joshua was resent after each died? Or just that a prophet can finish one message/mission and be given a second?
By the scene where mentions how the Pharisees questioned John, they seem to believe that even Messiah can be someone re
Are you saying that Elijah or Joshua was resent after each died? Or just that a prophet can finish one message/mission and be given a second?
Conceptually, it is delivered from
Malachi 4:5
See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.
John 1:24-25
Now the Pharisees who had been sent
questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
Not necessarily after a true death, as Elijah is not considered formally dead. It is just a re-sending of specific prophets, mainly Elijah because he's not dead but picked up by God, and may be resent as described in Malachi 4:5. I believe that I read somewhere else (not Bible) that Joshua was also expected to come as the Messiah (in Hebrew Joshua is a name very similar to Jesus). This however is very different from the reincarnation concept which states more on everyone instead of someone specific.
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