Divine intervention after death

[ConsoleKiddy]

While playing this game we ran into a little arguement. When a new game is started and someone draws divine intervention, everyone is allowed to become a cleric if possible (as far as i could find on the forum). Now the following situation occurs:
One player is lvl 9 and dies. He looses all items and cards. In his next turn he gets new cards and happens to get both a cleric card and a divine intervention. Is he allowed to become a cleric BEFORE showing the divine intervention? My arguement against it is that as soon as he gets the card he must play it, leaving no room for becoming a cleric. The other arguement is that this situation is the same as the start of the game in which the player is allowed to become a cleric and get that level.

As a seperate question: Is it allowed to annihilate a winning divine intervention?