Why did Moses' bones need to be hidden from Satan?
2007-05-22 03:23:07 · 18 answers · asked by Suz 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The death and burial of Moses is recorded in:
Deuteronomy 35:5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. (KJV)
God hid Mose's body because of the propensity to the Israelites towards idolatry. If the Israelites had access to his body they would have made it an object of worship, like they did the staff with the snakes (Numbers 21:6-9; 2 Kings 18:1-4)
The only scripture I can find that remotely comes close to what you are talking about is:
Jude 1:9 Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge. (BBE)
You need to read the verse in context with the surrounding verses to get the right sense of what this passage is teaching.
The location of the body of Moses is not really the point.
Again, Satan would have wanted to set the body of Moses up to be worshiped. However, I am not aware of any verse that says the Satan does not know where Moses is buried.
2007-05-22 03:47:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because satan would have used his bones to bring Israel into idolotry by the worship of Moses' bones. Remember in Numbers 21, the brazen serpent was put on a pole and those that looked were delivered from death? Later, in the book of Kings, King Hezekiah had to destroy that object because what once had been used by God to deliver a people was now being worshiped and taken the place of the Lord God through idolatry. This is probably the same principle. Moses' bones would have been used to distract Israel from a right focus on the living God. How much more was the possiblity offered to worship the man who, by God's grace, had delivered a people out of Israel and led them for years.
The same issue is in the church today. The church will idolize a preacher or put a singer in the limelight or any number of other things rather than worship the Lord Jesus Christ and not man.
2007-05-22 03:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are misunderstanding the connection between the burial of moses by the Lord and the dispute between michael and satan over the body of moses...the body of moses had more to do with the correct descendant to be high priest after the return from exile.
2007-05-22 03:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by Greg 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has never sent "angles" to hide anyone's bones. And why would the bones be hidden from Satan anyway?
2007-05-22 03:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
as a results of fact the Bible would not say, all we can do is make our terrific wager. perhaps it had to do with desiring the Israelites to head on and concentration on God's plan for them to flow into the promised land. consistent with possibility He did no longer prefer them making a shrine to Moses or something like that considering the fact that in an prolonged time in the Bible we come across that Hezekiah had to destroy the bronze serpent that Moses made as a results of fact it had become an idol. As to the dispute over Moses' physique, that's an excellent extra imprecise passage. We in uncomplicated terms study it in the epistle of Jude who quotes non-canonical books like the e book of Enoch. Who is familiar with what the dispute replaced into approximately? consistent with possibility devil wanted to defile the physique and throw it on the floor in front of the Israelites so as that they could come across it and be discouraged from trusting in the Lord and following Joshua.
2016-11-26 00:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by woomer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not given a reason for this, perhaps satan wanted to possess the body of Moses for sinister purposes.
2007-05-22 03:31:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Back that up with some Bible scripture...
This is what is said in the bible about bones and Moses.
Exodus 13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
2007-05-22 03:29:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Satan can't find the bones of a dead man? What a croak of **** your Bible is!
2014-11-29 16:32:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan always had a crush on moses & god didn't want satan defiling the remains of moses...... (Satan was a necrophiliac)
2007-05-22 03:29:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
So Satan wouldn't eat them
Duuh
2007-05-22 03:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋