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Lukongsimi · 22-03-2024, 06:17 PM

(22-03-2024, 06:08 PM)Ali Imran Wrote: If you can, show me any authors of the Gospels who said God inspired them to write what they wrote.

Why did Moses write the first 5 books of the Bible from the third person’s perspective, and how did he write about his own death?
First and foremost, Moses was a prophet of God (as was every single writer of Scripture). A prophet declares the divine will of God and God verifies the message is authentic by including the advanced prediction of future events. A true prophet is never wrong and the prophecies that are made are always literally fulfilled, exactly as spoken… on Earth in the sight of humanity (Deut 18:22). God chose prophecy as His proof to humanity that He is real and that He alone is God (Isa 41:21–24, 43:9-12, 44:6–8, 45:21, 46:8-10). This is both why and how Moses was able to write about his own death and what was to immediately follow it. And Moses states this very thing in “The Torah” which are the first five books that Moses wrote. Deuteronomy 31:24–27 says…
“So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of the Torah in a book when they were finished, that Moses commanded… ‘Take this Book of the Torah and put it beside the ark of the covenant… as a witness against you... If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death?”
There are three more chapters that follow this statement by Moses. Chapter 32:1–47 is “The Song of Moses” spoken by Moses to all of Israel (that he had clearly already written). On the same day (at verse 48–52), Moses records the prophecy of his ascent to Mt. Nebo. Chapter 33 prophetically records the blessing Moses was to speak before he ascended Mt. Nebo. Chapter 34 then prophetically records Moses ascent up Mt. Nebo and the general events of his death that would follow.
Now, if Moses can predict the future coming of “a prophet like me” (Deut 18:15) which was fulfilled over 1,700 later by Jesus (Yahusha)… is it beyond all reason to believe that on the day he completed the Torah he included the future event of his death that would take place later that same day and the immediate events that would take place after his death? Remember, he already spoke of his death in Chapter 31 above… and it is still the same day…being the day he died.
Some point to Moses laying his hands on Joshua in 34:9 as proof that this was added later; but, Moses did that back in Numbers 27! Verse 34:9 is restating a past event… and the purpose of his is found in what immediately follows. Following the mention of Joshua, Moses says, “that to this very day” (the day of his death) no “prophet like him” had yet come (which he had prophesied in Chapter 18:15)… which is then excluding Joshua the son of Nun from being the possible fulfillment of that prophecy… because Moses had already raised Joshua up. Due to the claim, Yahusha was “the Prophet,” modern rabbis teach that Moses' prophecy was fulfilled by Joshua the son of Nun, even though Moses made it clear Joshua was excluded. Remember, first-century Jews were still asking “Are you the Prophet” (Jn 1:21), and Scripture says He was (Jn 6:14, 7:40).
The Torah (of Moses) lays the entire foundation of all prophecy in Scripture. There are no prophecies from the books of Joshua to Revelation that do not begin and/or connect back to the Torah. Was Moses a prophet? How can we know? Well, it was Moses who first prophesied that the day would come when God would cast all of Israel out of the Promised Land (before they had even entered it), and God would scatter them among all the nations… and there they to be persecuted (in those nations). And, in this same prophecy… Moses also prophesied God would not allow them to be utterly destroyed; but, again the day would come that God would regather them back to the very same Promised Land. From A.D. 70 to 1948, the “Nation of Israel” ceased to exist with Jews literally scattered and widely persecuted in every nation. These are just the historical facts. It is also a historical fact, that when any ethnic people group has been displaced and removed from their native lands… they are assimilated and vanish as a distinct group… especially if that group is persecuted. Yet somehow, Jews remained a distinct group despite severe persecution… and after 1800 years… they not only became a nation again… they returned to the exact same land promised in Scripture by God, through Moses! Now, read what Moses prophesied in Leviticus 26… and then consider if the prophet Moses was real and able to record the events of his death.
Moses wrote from a third-person perspective because none of what he wrote was about him… and by the time he wrote the Torah, he knew it. He was born a Hebrew slave, but raised as a prince of Egypt for 40 years. Then he was exiled as a shepherd in the wilderness for 40 years. Through these circumstances, God molded Moses into a man of great humility.
“Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth” (Num 12:3).
“Humility” is often misunderstood. It is not weakness or an absence of strength, but rather… it is strength controlled born out of genuine empathy for others in a sincere desire to seek what is best for another… even if it comes at a personal loss. His lessons in humility began when he attempted to stop an Egyptian from beating a Hebrew slave and ended up killing the man and hiding his body. He then tries to stop two Hebrews from fighting and finds only resentment and a threat to expose him. His empathy for others is clear… and his unexpected personal loss is equally clear. His high status as a prince was reduced to the lowest status of a shepherd overnight and continued for the next forty years as God molded him. The result of this lesson was a man who constantly put God and the children of Israel before his own personal interest… even offering his own life for Israel (Ex 32:32).
But even Moses was human. Eighteen months before the 40-years of wandering in the wilderness was to end… Moses’ humility failed him and he lost control. The consequence was that Moses would die one year short of entering the promised land. This is why Moses wrote in the third person, it was not about him… it was about God… Israel… and a coming Messiah who would be a prophet like Moses (Deut 18:15).

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