Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

Deuteronomy 34:1-6 says: " 1Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, 3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.” [This was to fulfill the judgment that God had previously pronounced against Moses because of the presumption that Moses had exhibited by claiming the ability to bring water out of a rock for the Israelites, when it was entirely God's doing (and also in Moses' striking the rock with his staff, rather than merely speaking to the rock, as God had commanded him to do (Numbers 20:1-13)].)

5 "And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. 6 He buried him[a] in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is."

(Although Moses subsequently appeared (along with Elijah) at Jesus' transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36), Jesus Himself subsequently referred to the experience as a "vision" in Matthew 17:9, casting doubt as to whether Moses was resurrected bodily, since the Bible elsewhere specifically calls Jesus "the firstborn from the dead" (Colossians 1:18).)

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