This is just for sake of clarity, and not being "critical", but being a critical thinker when reading words and terms that we used to communicate to one-another. {MY ANSWERS ARE WITHIN THIS TEXT. WILLA
1Sa 16:16
Let our lord now command thy servants,
which are before thee, to seek out a man,
who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass,
when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. { 16: 14 "But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul (to bless him, because of his misdeeds and yet it says...) an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him." {A sense that the Lord was against him. Evil in this instance is God's judgement bringing condemnation, consequences to him, a sense of foreboding. Again, in this case NO harper is going to make him feel any better, he knows he is guilty. "Let our lord (speaking of Saul as our lord, King, now command thy -- (Saul's) servants. Also it could be said in the manner of speaking of that date in time that you had an evil shower if you slipped on the soap. I on the other hand might say you had a funny day, that kind of stuff makes me laugh. Can't help it. Either way it is not evil as in the satanic sense of the word, unless the devil tripped you.
Mat 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. { Luke explains Mat 1:18 "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee;" The Holy Spirit is a facilitator, through him we are healed, and miracles are wrought. So here is a description that through the Holy Spirit, Mary is protected from the burnings of Glory and Heavenly Father's Son is conceived through spirit science better than a petri tray.
Luk 1:11
And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. { Okay, Gabriel, an open vision to Zacharias to inform him his prayers are going to be granted for a son. What is the issue?
Act 11:5
I was in the city of Joppa praying:
and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: The sheet is a tablecloth set with forbidden foods. It is a message to Peter that he is to go to the gentiles to preach as, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life" Acts 10: 18
Act 16:9
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Visions are still available to the faithful who who follow Christ. Or who are called to serve God at times.
Moses and Elias (Elijah) had disappeared and been missing (dead?) for hundreds of years
{Maybe, but the power and spirit of Ellias is missionary and
baptism throughout the ages.
- Moses "died" in 1513 BCE which was 1511 years before Jesus was born in 2 BCE. {And yet, Moses knew and taught of Jesus Christ."All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Christ" 1 Corinth 10: 1-6
Mat 17:1
And after six days
Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, {Going to be transfigured to see in the Holy Spirit the mysteries of God
Mat 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. {Residue Glory.
Mat 17:3
And,
behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. In an open vision
Mat 17:5
While he yet spake,
behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. The Cloud is a description of bright Glory as if a cloud.
If "God" can use a burning bush, why wouldn't it use "visions" and "apparitions"?
For all we know, the "burning bush" could have been a "vision" or "apparition". { The burning bush was Jehovah's Glory. He was protecting a mortal from the power of too much glory for our bodies as He stood behind it in person