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Adventistische Schriften über: "Did Moses die and then rise again, or did the Lord take him alive into heaven? (According to Adventist doctrine, Moses died, was buried in Moab, and God took him into heaven after his death; he did not rise from the dead.)"
Answer
According to Adventist doctrine, Moses actually died and was buried by God in the land of Moab, but he did not remain in the grave. The provided documents clearly confirm that Christ (Michael) descended to the grave, overcame Satan's resistance, and raised Moses from the dead.
Moses was taken up to heaven with a glorified body and later appeared as a representative of the resurrected at the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mountain. Thus he was not taken alive as Elijah was, but is the “firstfruits” of Christ’s power over death.
Moses was raised from the dead
»Moses died and was buried by the Lord, from whom he was later raised from the dead. That he was raised is proven by two things: 1. Christ and Satan contended over Moses’ body. ... Therefore we know that when Moses appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration, he did not appear as an angel or as the spirit of a dead man, but as a man who had been dead and was brought to life.«
Christ defeated death at Moses’ grave
»Satan claimed that the body was his property, but Michael raised Moses up and took him into heaven. ... Here Christ exercised His power for the first time to break Satan’s power and give life to the dead. By this He testified that He truly is the resurrection and the life and has the power to redeem those whom Satan had captured.«
Moses as a representative of the resurrected
»Moses passed through death, but Michael came down and gave him life before his body saw decay. ... Moses was present [at the Transfiguration] to represent those who will be raised from the dead at the second coming of Jesus. And Elijah, who was transformed without seeing death, represented those who will be transformed to immortality at Christ’s second coming and taken up to heaven without seeing death.«
The certainty of the resurrection
»As a result of sin, Moses fell under Satan’s power. By his own merits he was a rightful prisoner of death; but he was raised to immortal life, maintaining his claim in the name of the Redeemer. Moses emerged gloriously from the grave and ascended with his Deliverer to the city of God.«
Satan was dismayed over the resurrection
»Satan had not expected that the body would be brought back to life after death. He had concluded that the judgment “Dust you are, and to dust you shall return” gave him undisputed ownership of the bodies of the dead. Now he saw that he would be deprived of his prey, that man would live again after death.«
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