The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5,
may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Funeral and
Resurrection of Moses for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson On Death Dying and the Future Hope. The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit
of the Living God" The Sabbath School Quarterly,
downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 58 and for the
laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 39. The SSnet.org site allows anyone,
anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to
see God speaking also to your heart. Why don’t you click on this link right
now: https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_05.pdf ---Origen
and the two Moseses of soul and body: The
Greek Church Fathers from Alexandria argued that, when Moses died, two Moseses
were seen: one alive in the spirit, another dead in the body; one Moses
ascending to heaven with angels, the other buried in the earth. (See Origen, Homilies on Joshua 2.1; Clement of
Alexandria, Stromata 6.15.) Both were
church fathers from Alexandria. Alexandria librarians corrupted the Septuagint
so that the form of the Septuagint that Constantine ordered 50 “speedy” copies
in 350 AD was not the pure original Septuagint more literal in 287 BC but the
corrupted one after Antiochus Epiphanes in 130 BC! How do we know? They did it
with the classical works of Homer the Iliad! ---Alexandria
is the method of interpretation that has infiltrated Adventism by men like
Stefanovich and Paulien who tried to interpret the Book of Revelation not the
pioneer way or Adventist way, but the worldly view of allegorizing everything,
thus the Origen Alexandrian way. See their treatment of Revelation and vicarius filii dei as 600+60+6 as an
imperfect 7 as Calvinism suggested since long ago! ---In
Biblical Hermeneutics Symposium and
also Gerhard Hasel’s Understanding the
Word of God it is explained that there are two interpretation models in the
Ancient world represented by the city of Alexandria (allegorizing everything, focusing
on meaning rather that forms of the letters, reading between the lines instead
of reading the text, making everything metaphors) and also the Antiochian
school (take the text fundamentally as it is literal for literal and figurative
for figurative when so suggested, the grammatical-historical method of
interpretation). Heresies were from Alexandria and biblical truth from Antioch.
When our pastors and scholars plays with idealistic models, bringing in the
influences of Plato or neo-Platonism, or Stoicism in the New Testament, then
they are Alexandrian and not Antiochian, which is the Adventist way. ---This
distinction between the assumption of the soul and the burial of the body might
make sense to those who believe in the Greek concept of the immortal soul, but
the idea is not in the Bible. It is coming from the 12th chapter of Plato’s
book Republic which he wrote after
his trip to the mystery religions of the Egyptians. ---Jude
9 confirms the biblical teaching of the resurrection of Moses’ body, because
the dispute was “about the body of Moses” and not about any supposed surviving
soul. A very good proof. ---Death
of Moses: Deuteronomy 34:5–7 tells us that Moses died at 120 years of age in 1410
BC because the Exodus was in 1450 BC the year that Thutmosis III, the Napoleon
of Egypt died in the sea and was never found. ---God’s
Funeral for Moses: The Lord buried him in a hidden place in a valley in the
land of Moab. But Moses did not remain for very long in the grave. “Christ
Himself, with the angels who had buried Moses, came down from heaven to call
forth the sleeping saint. . . . For the first time Christ was about
to give life to the dead. As the Prince of life and the shining ones approached
the grave, Satan was alarmed for his supremacy. . . . Christ did
not stoop to enter into controversy with Satan. . . . But Christ
referred all to His Father, saying, ‘The Lord rebuke thee.’ Jude 9.
. . . The resurrection was forever made certain. Satan was despoiled
of his prey; the righteous dead would live again.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 478, 479. ---A
clear evidence of Moses’ resurrection is found at the Transfiguration. There
Moses appeared with the prophet Elijah, who had been translated without seeing
death (2 Kings 2:1–11). Moses and Elijah even dialogued with Jesus (see
Luke 9:28–36). “And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah,
who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish
at Jerusalem” (Luke 9:30, 31, NKJV). ---Moses’
appearance, proof of Christ’s coming victory over sin and death, is depicted
here in unmistakable terms. It was Moses and Elijah, not their “spirits” (after
all, Elijah hadn’t died), who had appeared to Jesus there.