Welcome and thank you for taking a bible break to test your knowledge of God's word. This week's question:

Moses, the Hebrew child who was raised by Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:1-10) and at age forty he tried to help his own brethren and killed an Egyptian who was beating one of his own and when it was found out he escaped Pharaoh's hand by fleeing to Midian where he married Zipporah and became a shepherd (Exodus 2:11-22).

Forty years later God hears the groaning of the Israelites in Egypt and requests Moses to help release the people from the hand of Pharaoh and the plagues are sent upon them to help them know that God is with them and with the final plague of the death of the firstborn the people were released (Exodus 11 & 12:1-33). When they reached the promise land twelve spies (Numbers 13:& 14:1-10) were sent into the land for forty days to look it over and when they reported back, ten of them thought it would be too difficult to take the land, but Caleb and Joshua thought that with the hand of God with them they could take the land, but the people would not listen and wanted to stone Caleb and Joshua.

Then the glory of the Lord appeared and said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with a pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater than they." (Numbers 14:11-12). Moses then interceded for the people of Israel and said to the Lord, "Now if you slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say, 'Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'" (Numbers 14:15-16). And with the request of Moses, the Lord pardoned the people of their sin, but they were to wander in the wilderness for forty years until all those who were of the age of accountability were to fall in death in the wilderness for each day the spies spent in the land of milk and honey (Numbers 14:20-35).

Moses was not allowed to enter the land of promise because of his sin of not listening to the Lord when He asked Moses to speak to the rock and Moses said, "Listen now you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?" (Numbers 20:10) and the Lord then told Moses he would not be able to enter the promised land for not belie being Him that he was just to speak top the rock versus striking the rock with his rod and then Moses did not give full glory to God for the water that poured forth from the rock, but said, "shall we" as he included himself and Aaron "…speaking rashly with his lips" (Psalms 106:33). But God did show him the land of promise from the top of Pisgah and then in death, the Lord buried him in the valley of Moab where no man would know where his burial place was to this day and "Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated." (Deuteronomy 34:7). "Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face," (Deuteronomy 34:10.)

And so that leads us to our question, "Who met Moses at his death?". To find the answer to our question, we turn to the book of Jude where God reminds us of the people of Israel who were brought up out of Egypt, but after the many miracles wrought by the Lord they still did not believe they could take the promised land because of the great nations that were there and they were punished by wandering for forty years until they perished in the wilderness and did not enter the land of promise (Verse 5). "But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'" (Verse 9). And so there we have the answer to our question, as Satan was waiting for the Moses at his death, the very one who spoke to the Lord as a friend face to face (Exodus 33:8-11) and Michael the Archangel disputed with Satan about the body of Moses.

What about us at our death? Moses was the greatest prophet in Israel from that time as we've seen, and yet there is Satan waiting for him at death's door! May these words be thought provoking enough for us to think a little more about our walk of life and the decision's we make for our desire for life everlasting so that Michael the archangel is ready to defend us in our last day.