While reading the Mishnah, I came across the following where it is predicted that humans will be instrumental agents in resurrecting the dead:
“Bashan” is an allusion to the prophet Elisha, who came from the Bashan. How do
we know that Elisha came from Bashan? As it is stated: “Joel the chief,
and Shafam the next, and Yanai and Shafat in the Bashan” (I Chronicles
5:12), and it is written: “Here is Elisha ben Shafat who poured water on the
hands of Elijah” (II Kings 3:11). “Gilad” is an allusion to Elijah,
as it is stated: “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilad,
said” (I Kings 17:1). Based on the similarity of the verses and the verbal
analogy between the two instances of the word “feed,” we learn that in the
future the righteous will be like Elijah and Elisha, who resurrected the dead.
This idea is derived from a different source as well. Rabbi Shmuel bar
Naḥmani said that Rabbi Yonatan said: In the future the righteous will
resurrect the dead, as it is stated: “Old men and old women shall yet again
dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for
very age” (Zechariah 8:4). And the staff will then be used as it was
used by Gehazi when Elisha sent him to bring the son of the Shunamite woman
back to life, as it is written: “And you shall lay my staff on the face of
the child” (II Kings 4:29). (Pesachim 68a)
This reminded me of the following FairMormon article:
Question:
Do Mormons believe men have the right to resurrect their spouses by a specific
ordinance?
