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The death experience:
2Co 5:8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
This suggests that Stephen's experience was similar to a rapture experience where we die, in the illusion of dying at various times. But since there is no time. We arrive simultaneously (in timeless eternity) with all who have died or will die. The hosts that he saw were you and me, in the same timeless eternity. Note that when two are in the field and one is taketaken; no one suggests that 50 percent are saved. Perhaps our goat (old man) is being separated from our sheep (new man) (Mt 25:32).
We have two options. Stephen saw a vision which was an impression on his mind, a correlation of what he knew of scripture and of Christ; as with Peter's revelation that Jesus was the Messiah and Son of God, or he saw the reality of the rapture.
Standing has the idea of righteousness being revealed. Justice, the law, and judgement are all a part of the attribute of righteousness. In this, I agree that standing has a notion of judgement.
But look at the tsadiצ. It has conveys the notion of his righteousness being traded for our sin. We know that the saints under the alter crying for vengeance are not the souls of New Testament saints. We pray The New Testament saint prays for and love our loves their enemies(Mt 5:44). Likewise, standing has the hint of the cross ''buried '' in the words. Stephen was not pronouncing a curse on his murderers, but forgiving them even as Jesus had done.
Ac 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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