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.

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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.