In the Old Testament, Why was Moses not allowed to set foot in the Promised Land?

Answer 1

The Torah teaches us about leadership. Leaders must put the welfare of their people ahead of themselves. The Torah also teaches us that leaders must step down and pass their power on to new leaders. Another lesson we learn from Moses is that he was a righteous leader, but he was human just the same as everyone else. He had to have his shortcomings so that his followers would not make him into a god. They had just escaped from Egypt where the pharoahs were considered to be gods and lived on in the afterlife. God's chosen people had to learn new lessons -- they had to be holy (separate/apart) from the practices of the cultures that surrounded them.
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Answer 2

because of the fact God advised him to talk to a rock to make water come out and Moses, in his anger, struck the rock two times. God advised Moses he had dishonored His holiness in front of the folk, for this reason Moses replaced into no longer allowed into the land, yet would desire to purely look at it. yet, Moses did set foot contained in the land after his loss of existence - during the Transfiguration.

Answer 3

Moses disobeyed G-d. G-d told him to tell the rock to give water from it. Instead, Moses struck the rock. Then, Moses told the people that the water was from him, whereas the water was from G-d.

Answer 4

From what I recall he got ticked off with the stiff-necked Israelites and disobeyed a direct command from God, and instead of speaking to the rock to bring forth water he struck it twice with his staff. Because he failed to give God due reverence in the matter God's judgment was that he should see the promised land from afar, but not enter in. There is a further significance to this though, in that Moses represented the Law, and it was not through the Law that the people of God were to enter into their inheritance, but through faith. Joshua (Hebrew equivalent of the Greek name Jesus) was to be God's chosen instrument to bring His people into their inheritance, which for the Jews was the land of Canaan; but for believers is the Kingdom of God.

Answer 5

Numbers 20:7 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and bspeak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.


Verse 12 spells out the reason as that Moses didn't sanctify the Lord in the eyes of the Israelites....I believe this refers to Moses misrepresenting the Lord's attitude towards the Israelites at that particular time.

I believe the Israelites were doing right and showing faith in asking the Lord to provide for them what they needed (water)(through His prophet)...and therefore this was right in the eyes of the Lord and He was willing to freely give...BUT Moses ended up sounding angry...calling them rebels (verse 10) which I believe is what was offensive to the Lord.


In defense of Moses:
Moses was a great prophet (but not 100% perfect at that time)... I imagine he probably only had a handful of small sins. Also remember that MOSES was the AUTHOR of the book of Numbers...he wrote about his OWN faults in this thing --- which was to be preserved in the sight of the people for a very long time! (= He was very humble and meek to do that)

Answer 6

He smote The Rock three times and He was told to do it only once. The Rock, Jesus, only had to die once for our sins. He paid the price for our etenal lives in full with one sacrifice. Moses smote The Rock three times because of his unbelief in that it only needed to be hit once.

Answer 7

Pride, not fully relying on God.
God told him to speak to the rock, and instead of just doing what God said, Moses decided that he needed to make a show out of it, bring attention to himself, and show his personal "might" by striking the rock.

Answer 8

I think it was because he claimed responsibility for getting water out of a rock when it was God that gave him the power to do it.

Answer 9

He smote the Rock twice.

His rage or lack of patience.