If one believe the dead able to hear, ask apostle Paul to preach in my church.
well, that would be
speaking
not
hearing,
wouldn't it?
someone from heaven did already come and speak
66. At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, `You don`t also want to go away, do you?`
68. Simon Peter answered him, `Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
(John, 6)
25. But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
26. Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27. There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.`
28. They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
29. They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
(Luke, 4)
we all like to think that if we have been alive when Jesus was on Earth we would have been one of his followers.
but, by the end of his ministry, he was left with just a handful.
I think another reason that Paul doesn't come speak here to churches today is that
now is the time that we live out the Christian Life while seeing through a glass darkly, with incomplete knowledge.
the things that Paul has heard in heaven and now understands are probably not things intended to be heard on Earth.
12. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
(1 Corinthians, 13)
2. I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don`t know, or whether out of the body, I don`t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
3. I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don`t know; God knows),
4. how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
(2 Corinthians, 12)
finally, is the Revelation already given through Jesus not enough for us?
1. God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
2. has at the end of these days spoken to us
by his Son,
whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
3. His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
(Hebrews, 1)