He hasn't been anyone else.
Floo: Square sausages are much more credible than your 'science', NM!
You are not a lorne voice in your opinion.
Nicholas, I have a problem with the idea that we (or some of us) will be given overseer-type positions in the next life. Please explain where you got that from. Thanks.
Jesus tells is in Revelation and in other places Brownie...Those that overcome I will give a crown of life.
THE ETERNAL PROMISE FOR THOSE WHO OVERCOME – CROWNS & REWARDS
(Eternity: Revelation 21, 22:1 – 7)
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him (/she) who overcomes I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, (eternal life) which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Rev 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death (Lake of Fire – Rev 20:14). Rev 2:11
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives it. Rev 2:17
And he who overcomes and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations. And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father. And I will give him the Morning Star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Rev 2:26 – 29
The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Rev 3: 5 -6
Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Rev 3:12 – 13
To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Rev 3:21 – 22
CROWNS AND REWARDS
A Crown of Life ~ for those who endure (overcome) temptation & TRIALS and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jam 1:12 … Blessed is the man who endures temptation (also adversity in Greek), because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Rev 2:10 … Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
An Incorruptible Crown ~ for those who are temperate in all things.
1 Cor 9:25 … And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible (crown).
A Crown of Rejoicing ~ for those winning souls.
1 Thes 2:19, 20 … For what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are you not even to be in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For you are our glory and joy.
A Crown of Righteousness ~ for all those who love His appearing.
2 Tim 4:8 … Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.
A Never-Fading Crown of Glory ~ for those who willingly feed the flock of God allotted to them by God.
1 Pet 5:2-4 … Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily; nor as lording it over did those allot you by God, but becoming examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory.
If the meek will inherit the Earth then it is here on planet Earth where these supervisors in righteousness will live, in the flesh...that is the power of everlasting life...they will never die again...after God's Final Judgement.