Thursday Evening Blog With Pastor Williams (March 2009)
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by TADCCBLOG
Pastor Williams will be active on this blog site Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30 pm. Please suggests topics or questions for discussion.
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KB, on March 4th, 2009 at 8:19 pm Said:
I find myself, at times, trying to “prove” my christian walk to other Christians simply because they are looking to see my “good fruit / manifestations of God’s blessings” as evidence of His presence / favor in my life.
Then, I think about His goodness and all He has done for me and realize that He is the One that I owe an account of my christian walk .
It is because of His mercy,grace, love and forgiveness that I am saved and not anything that I have done. Moreover, I can not save myself; lest any man can boast, it truly is a gift of God. The most wonderous gift of Father God, which is Christ Jesus, our Lord and King.
Sometimes we can become so wrapped up in gaining the acceptance of other Christians that we lose sight of God’s purpose for our lives; to bring the lost to Christ by living our lives according to His will and way.
It is good to be accepted by others because we need one another for support, fellowship and companionship. Yet, we must never lose sight of the fact that “Only what we do for Christ Jesus will last and lead to an everlasting reward.”
There are times when I feel so alone. Surrounding myself with others oftentimes makes me feel even more lonely. It is when I turn to the written Word of God that the lonliness subsides. God’s words automatically lead me into a state of praise and worship. The Holy Spirit brings a song to my remembrance and I’m having a wonderful time in the presence of the Lord. The Creator of the universe is fellowshipping with me!
I thank Almighty God, my Heavenly Father, for my family and friends; but I thank Him most of all for my JESUS, my one true friend.
I LOVE YOU JESUS. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND!
KB
Oh how wonderful it is to be in right relationship with the Heavenly Father through His Son Christ Jesus our Lord. It is wonderful to hear that you know how to withdraw to yourself to get in the presence of our God.
However, it is through interaction with others that our Love for God is perfected as it says in I John
4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
It is through trying to win others to Christ Jesus that we discover our own weaknesses. But it is through those weaknesses that we learn that we are that much more in need of the Heavenly Father. And it is through that need that grows us more in love with the Heavenly Father through His Son Christ Jesus our Lord.
It is is good to withdraw and spend time with our Lord in prayer. It is those times that should give us strength to go out and face those, especially our brothers in Christ, that may not understand or even agree with us.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL
It is generally known that the nation of Israel began with the call of God to Abraham in Genesis Chapter 12.
1 And the LORD said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you. 2 And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. 3 And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Abram was a Hebrew (Gen 14:13 ). He belonged to Eber line. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, show the line that God would use to bring his only begotten son Jesus Christ into the world. But where did we get the name Jews. A name applied first to the people living in Judah after the Babylonian Captivity, all these descendants of Abraham were called Jews. The northing tribes were called Israel and the southing tribes were called Jews (compose of Judah and Benjamin tribes).
Where did we get the name Israel from, it can be found in Genesis 32:28 and he (man in verse 24, or an angle Hosea I2:40) said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel (that mean ruling with God). Israel is the only group of people that can trace their line or beginning from Abram’s call by God, about 2090 B.C. till now.
What is the rest of Israel history, (1) the bible, (2) the people, (3) the land, (4) the temple?
The Bible
Israel gave• us The bible by the Holy Spirit 2 Tim 3; 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God., 2 Pet 1 :21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy man of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The Bible was written by some forty different authors, on three continents, over a period of 1600 years. These men came from all walks of life. The Old Testament is based on the Masoretic Hebrew text that underlines the King James Bible, the Daniel Bomberg edition, edited by Ben Chayyim the 2nd Rabbinic Bible of 1524-25. The Priests were to make copies of the law every seven years, Deut 31: 10¬,12. A copy of the law for the king Deut 17: 18 and the priests were to put a copy of the law in the side of the Ark Deuteronomy ‘31 :24-26. It was mandatory that the Levities keep the law Ezra 7:10, Mal 2:7.
The Bible is the best selling book. Since 1611 it has sold 800,000,000 copies. Over 2,000,000 per year and over 5000 per day.
The People
39 B.C.-325 A.D.
Rome, the dreadful and terrible beast of Daniel 7, decided to lord over the promise land and God covenant people. During these centuries, Rome laid siege to Jerusalem three times (39 B.C., and 135 A.D.). Over 1,000,000 Jews were killed when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., and an estimated 97,000 were taken into slavery and captivity.
Then it:lto slavery and captivity.
Then Hadrian established Jerusalem as a pagan city in 135 A.D. by erecting a temple for Jupiter at Mt. Mariah (where God’s temple belongs) and a temple for Venus at Golgotha. The Jewish worship was abolished, and the Jews were banned from the city for the next two hundred years. In 315 A.D. Constantine declared Roman Catholicism the state religion of the Roman Empire and passed numerous laws against the Jews. Within another 150 years, Vandals and other factors contributed to the fall of Rome’s imperial power, but to pretend that her treatment of the Jews was not a factor is to deny the accuracy of Genesis 12:1-3. It may very well be that Rome could have continued as an imperial power had she blessed the Jews rather than cursed them.
500-400 A.D. Known as the Dark Ages (improperly termed the Middle Ages in government schools), this is the period when the Roman Catholic Church ruled Europe and inflicted much persecution against Christians and Jews. The Jews were labeled Christ killers and often forced into servitude, other hardships, or just plain murdered. Payday came on October 31, 1517, when a German by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. This began the Protestant Reformation, a movement from which Rome would never fully recover.
613 A.D. Roman Catholic Spain Jumped in on the act of Jewish persecution by forcing all Jews to either submit to pagan baptism (sprinkling). This mode arose because people came to feel there was something magical about baptism and that it brought salvation to the recipient. The first record of the use for this purpose first use of sprinkling was record in A.D.250 when Novatian lay sick in bed and thought he was to die. lIe had water poured all over him on the bed as an act of baptism. If Jews did not submit they would have to leave the country. Not understanding that baptism was a part of the ritual purification that Jews did often. Women were required to be purified or baptized after their monthly cycle. A Mikveh or baptismal pool was required for every synagogue, especially for cleansing of the women and the men serving in the priesthood.
In less than 100 years, Muslims would take the country and,rule it for over 700 years.
1391-1497 Spain persecuted Jews again with murder slavery and forced baptism. Then, in 1588, God sank the Spanish Armada Gust as He promised in Psalm 48:& Tarshish is believed to be Spain). This allowed England to produce the King James Bible only twenty -three years later while stopping the spread of the Catholic idolatry throughout the growing Empire.
King James was a scholar, and king. He wanted a Bible for the common people. It was translated by 48-52 men. Some of them died before it was completed. It took seven years to complete.
From1605-1611. These men spoke a minimal of four to fifteen languages. The world knew the King James Committee was translating the Bible, Some of the other Bible versions were done in secret.
The Roman Catholic in 1911 said they would not use The King James Bible. In the other versions read I Cor 1: 18, Heb 10: 14 and they read I am being saved. They are not saved only being saved. This act is not complete this is a Roman Catholic saying for they need Purgatory to purify them, and the prayer of the Pope to get them to heaven. The New American Standard Bible has you are a chosen race mean first in this text that there is only one holy race, which race, Black, Caucasian, Asian , This mean only one group will go to heaven The word race became popular with Darwin.
The Caucasian the superior race, and all other race inferior. See this reference 1 Pet 2:9.
Catholic idolatry , as you likely know, is forbidden in the second commandment, written by a Jew.
The Roman Catholic in 600 A.D. started praying to Mary, dead saint, angle, and use image of Mary and Jesus to ask for intersection in their life. The Bible or Sola Scriptural as the Roman Catholic say. In John 14 chapter to come through Jesus to the Father God. The Christian use faith as found in John 4:24, not sight.
In 1492 Spain drives out its Jewish population, and take their property. Christopher Columbus a Jew left for his safety and he had read in Isaiah 40:22 that the world ‘was round not flat.
The Mameluke Period, the word means slave the Mamelukees were Turkish slaves in Egypt. They took over the throne of Egypt. After this they overran Palestine or Israel the true name as we shall see when we get to the land. The Jews and Christians Law, Jews had to wear yellow turbans and Christian).s blue turbans to distinguish them from the first class Moslem citizens. There was a prolonged droughts and food disappeared. People ate cats, dogs, vermin, and occasion even little children. This is known as cannibalism and can affect the brain. The symptoms are trembling, laughing,
These are some of the symptom of Kuru disease that result from cannibalism, other are headache, and joint pains.
1517 -1917 The Ottoman Turkish Period
In 1517 Selim I of Turkey defeated the Mamelukes and took over Palestine for 400 year the Turkish occupation of Palestine. Among other achievements, he rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.
In 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte entered the Middle East. During that year he captured Egypt with 30,000 troops and a large fleet of ships. He then announced his intention to conquer Palestine and restore to the Jews. Because of this ,m many Jews looked upon him as their true Messiah, an honor they had last paid some 665 years prior to Bar Cochba.
In 1838 The British Consulate opened in Jerusalem, the first of its kind. Protestants, Catholic, and Jews also founded missions during this time. By 1914 there were 90,000 Jews
1791-1917 Persecution arose in Russia as many Jewish men were required to serve up to twenty-five years in the military, Jewish children were deprived of a proper education m and frequent massacres occurred in an effort to thin out the population . Payday came in 1917 when Russia fell from the hands of the Czars into the hands Of Communism.
1917 a British General name Allenby, who just happened to be a Bible believing Christians , Knowing that they were being invaded by a prophet from God in the sky, the Turks became terrified and gave up the city without Allenby firing a single shot.
In World War I, Chaim Weizmann was Russia born Jew; he was credited with developing a method of producing acetone from maize. Which was needed for the production of artillery shells, and in 1917 he was credited with securing a promise from the British to build a Jewish National Home in Palestine, better known as the Balfour Declaration.
Later the British Government announces a White Paper which virtually abrogates the Balfour Declaration . The Yishuv is restricted to a status if of permanent minority.
In 1922 Britain and League of Nation grants mandate, a homeland to the Jews for Israel based on the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
1948 The rebirth of the State Israel.
1967 the six day war when Israel with the help of God defeated the surrounding nation and recapture Jerulesalm as the capital and worship center.
1906 David Ben-Gurion, born David YosefGryn in Poland (1886-1973), as a teen becomes a
Zionist, and moves to Haifa. In 1918, he co-publishes Eretz- Yisrael in Yiddish.
1903 A follow-up conference proposes to organize a Hebrew Christian Alliance of America
(HCAA)
1912 Resnick, John was ordained as pastor and labored under the Swedish Mission to the Jews in
Jassy, Rumania. In 1912 his work became affiliated with the Chicago Hebrew Mission to free him from governmental restrictions.
1915 First Jewish Prophetic Conference sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Mission.
1915 Arthur Kuldell founds the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America (HCAA)
1917 British Mandate of Palestine begins as Ottoman Empire collapses. The Balfour Declaration
promises Palestine as a homeland for the Jews in return for their help in the war.
1917 The HCAA begins publishing the HCA Quarterly with a Yiddish supplement with Dr.
Emmanuel Greenbaum as its full-time worker.
1917 Second Jewish Prophetic Conference sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Mission.
1917 The British Government announces a “White Paper” which virtually abrogates the Balfour
Declaration. The Yishuv is thereby restricted to a status of permanent minority. The Arabs are given the right to veto Jewish immigration. Further Jewish settlement is also strangled by land purchase restrictions. In his “Book of Betrayal” Ben-Gurion outrightly rejects these measures and henceforth leads the Zionist movement in its endeavors, irrespective of the British policy.
1919 Third Jewish Prophetic Conference sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Mission.
1920 The HCAA sends two workers in Palestine to enlist the Zionist cause
1920 Fourth Jewish Prophetic Conference sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Mission.
1920 Giovanni Baptista Jonas translates New Testament into Hebrew
1921 David Ben-Gurion, as Secretary of the Histadrut (1921-1935), becomes the dominant figure of the political and public life of the Yishuv (Jewish settlement in Palestine)
1922 John Zacker, Russian Jew, forms the Hebrew Christian Synagogue of Philadelphia,
recognized as “the first distinct Jewish Christian house of worship in the United States
2000 By the turn of the millennium the IMJA claims 18 national affiliations, such as the
Messianic Jewish Alliance of Mexico (AJMM), or the British Messianic Jewish Alliance (BMJA). One is transnational, the Association of Messianic Believers (AMB) created as a non-denominational umbrella uniting both Jewish and Gentile believers with a Messianic vision emphasizing on outreach, education, and disaster relief.
2000 Facts & Myths about Messianic Congregations in Israel, 1998-1999 reports the existence of
about 80 such congregations. The estimate of Messianic Jews worldwide is around 100,000. The first Messianic Lebanese-Arab congregation is planted in Nahariya, Israel, a fruit of the Messianic Jewish movement. Joint friendly meetings between Christian Arabs and Messianic Jews are held regularly. Efforts are also made to unify the branches within the Messianic Jewish movement in Israel and those in the Diaspora through conferences, sharing, education and support.
The MJBI links with Har Zion Messianic Congregation in Brazil and Netiviyah Ministries in Jerusalem, Israel, to form the fourth school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in February of 2000. By the turn ofthe millennium the IMJA claims 18 national affiliations, such as the Messianic Jewish Alliance of Mexico (AJMM), or the British Messianic Jewish Alliance (BMJA). One is transnational, the Association of Messianic Believers (AMB) created as a non-denominational umbrella uniting both Jewish and Gentile believers with a Messianic vision emphasizing on outreach, education, and disaster relief.
2000 Mark Kinzer & Stuart Dauermann (Hashiveinu) in an effort to develop a more “mature
Judaism” come up with the idea of a Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTl) on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary. John Fisher also offers on the campus of St. Petersburg Theological Seminary operates Netzer David International yeshiva autonomously as a separate school.
2001 The Israel College of the Bible gains additional European accreditation with the EEAA and
moves to a larger campus on the streets of the Prophets in the heart of Jerusalem.
In February of2001, following a successful Hear 0 Israel festival, another MJBI school begins for Spanish-speakers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Israel College of the Bible gains additional European accreditation with the EEAA and moves to a larger campus on the streets of the Prophets in the heart of Jerusalem.
2002 Messianic Times becomes bimonthly. Times of the Messiah Ministries begins publishing a
four-page news version of The Messianic Times, called Zmanim, meaning The Times for Israel. It launches a supplement In’Response that looks at issues of Jewish faith, culture and politics, translated in Russian and distributed in Israel, Eastern Europe, Canada and the United States. The Hebrew version is called BaZman, meaning On Time.
2002 The UMJC establishes this Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTI) to provide
advance education and training for those seeking ordination in the Messianic congregations with two programs, School of Jewish Studies (SJS) and Rabbinic Ordination Institute (RO’I) with a faculty of seven. Mark Kinzer is the first appointed President. Lacking a cenjrallocation, it operates from satellite locations, in Michigan, California & Florida.
2000-2003 A controversial brand of Messianic Judaism the Union of Two House Messianic Congregations formed by Marshall Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky of Your Arms to Israel (YATl), changes its name to the Union Of Nazarene Yisraelite Congregations (UONYC). The same trend is evident in James Trimm ofthe Society of the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism (SANJ), representing his Union of Nazarene Jewish Synagogues (UNJS).’ James of
The Land
What most people do not know is that there are two Old Testament covenants pertaining to the land of Israel. The Abrahamic Covenant gives the title of the land to the Jews an in perpetuity. A later covenant, the Mosaic Land covenant or Canaan covenant – of Deuteronomy 28-30 defines the conditions for possession and enjoyment of the land.
This latter covenant is often referred as the Palestinian Covenant, but that is a misnomer, for the land was never called Palestine until after the second Jewish revolt in 132-135 A.D. At that time the Romans dubbed it Palestine to erase the memory of its Jewish heritage and to insult the Jews, for Palestine is the Latin word for Philistine, the ancient enemy of Israel.
Israel was promise by God to own about 300,000 sq miles see Genesis 15:18, Ezekiel 47:13-21.
The Jews now own about 33,000 sq miles. After the Six Day war the Jews gave most of the land back, but let the Muslim worship in Jerusalem; at the Doom of the Rock. This is the site of the Temple. The Muslim built in 691 A.D. The Muslim say any land conquers for Allah is always for Allah, but did they stop to think that the Jews defeated them in 1967 and did not have to let them on the land. The Muslim got the land from the Roman in 638 A.D. In 1004 B.C. Davie conquer the land from the Jebusite (2 Samuel 5:6¬9, I Chron 11:5-7) and before that Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and win and blessed Abraham. Abraham latter returned to offer Isaac as a sacrifice to God (Gen22:2.).
Palestinian never existed prior to this century. So they do not have any rights to the land. I will now discuses some myths.
1) Palestinian has always been there. False they follow the Jews hoping to Reap from the benefits that belong to the Jews
2) Palestinian is refugee from the land. False Ottoman Turkeys changed Meaning of a refugee form a person who once lives there, and who made Their living there and was force to move by the Roman or Hitler. To any One Living on the land two years before 1948.
3) The Ottoman Turkeys charged the Jews 100-120% interest to rent the Land, the Palestinian could not stay for long because of the rough land That had been flooded by the Mediterranean Sea in the past.
4) The Peel Committee says there have always been a Jews present Israel.
The Temple
Israel is God time piece, and we can see it clearly in the temple. First the Tabernacle that moved when Israel was not stable , in unbelief for forty years. From 1446-1406 B.C. This continue with them even after they or more correctly God defeated the city Jericho. The time of the Judges lasted about 363 years. God had Promise Abraham that he would make him a great Nation. To be a nation there are three things needed I) land, 2) law) and 3)People . This was all fulfill in Davie the King, and he was a man after God own heart. He obtain the land ,and money to built the Temple but God would not let him built the Temple because he had blood on his hand .King Solomon built the Temple, he even said in I king 8:27 but will God indeed dwell in the earth? Behold, the heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have built.
During Ezekiel time the priest, was not studying the law, the people wear worshiping Tammuz the goddess of love, Sumerian myths, and according to Babylon myths he was Nimrod reborn who gives life in the spring. In the celebration of the east sun or as we say Easter. Constantine let the people worship.
God said for seventy years you will be in bondage to the Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11-12).This happen in 605 B.C. and in 586 B.C. the Temple was burned. Seventy years later they enter the completed temple.
The next temple will be King Herod’s temple. That He build, Partly to be accepted by the Jews since he was part Hebrew from Esau line, and because he was a great builder. He started to rebuild the temple about 20A.D.
When you read Malachi you will know that God said he will turn to the Gentile because of the life style of the Priests not keeping the law on their lips, offering unclean animals, people not bring their tithes, and devoice. God is a God of order. (I Cor 14;30-35).And because he had the church in mind from the foundation of the world (Eph 1;4; Matt 25:34)
God did not speak for about 400 years ; till it was time for the for runner John the Baptist (Mal 3:1) not Isaiah that founded in the NlV (Mark 1 :2) The Temple is a pattern of heaven Hebrew 5-1 Oth chapter.
High Priest (Heb 9:6-10) Jesus Christ
Incense (Rev 5:8) Prayer
Throne (Rev 7:9) Mercy of God
Furniture (Heb 8.2; 9: 1-5) Ministries of Christ Sanctuary (Heb 9:23-24) Heaven
Veil (Heb 10:19-22) Flesh of Christ
Jesus Christ is the temple (John 2:19,21), the fulness of the Godhead (CoI2:9). There are basically two things that are done in the temple, worship, and serve.
A) Worship, because he is worthy to be worship above all other gods.
B) Serve, that God can see righteousness in believers.
Tribulation Temple that is found in 2 Th 2:4; Rev 11: 1-2. This temple is desecrated by Antichrist and sacrifices cease (Da 9:27 ; Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14) This temple shall be in Jerusalem ( Rev 11:8; H eb 13:12 ) This is the temple that unbelievers shall come to worship, thinking that are worship God, but the two witness cause fire to kill unbelievers, not rain for forty two months and, plagues.
Millennial Temple that is found in ( Eze 40-48; Hag 2:6-9) … the place of my throne. In the midst of the children of Israel for ever. The restoration of National Israel, The reign of Jesus Christ on earth. Millennial Kingdom resumption of animal sacrifices and festival worship schedule.
New Jerusalem comes down from heaven (Rev 21:2, 10) but not touching the earth. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it (Rev 21 :22). And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
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In a world where God-fearing, sanctified and Holy Spirit filled Christians are in the minority; it is good to know that in the end, WE WIN!!!
Serving the True and Living God is the least road taken today, with the majority of mankind choosing to take the broad and crooked road of the world. Self-indulgence, immorality and a total disregard for the ways of our Lord will lead many down that road of destruction. PRAISE BE TO GOD, our HEAVENLY FATHER, through CHRIST JESUS our SAVIOR and REDEEMER, that we as believers do not have to suffer the same fate.
It is by the precious, shed blood of Christ Jesus that we are cleansed from all unrighteousness, forgiven of our sins, born again unto Almighty God our Heavenly Father, and having our names written in The Lamb’s Book of Life that we CAN rejoice and be exceedingly glad about the future.
Be ye prayerful, be ye watchful, be ye always ready for the soon return of Jesus. Regardless of the turmoiluous days ahead, remember that our hope and salvation is in the LORD.
Is it wrong for Christians to watch horror movies? I watched them as a child and was frightened by them, but as an adult I am not fearful because I realize that they are fictional.
BBB,
Christ Jesus our Lord said as a man thinketh so is he. Everything that we take in, whether consciously or subconsciously, affects our behavior.
Continuing to watch things that are horrific will desensitize us to true tragedies. That is why it no longer bothers you as an adult. This is why people are so indifferent when there is murder in a high crime neighborhood. They have seen and heard so much about murder that it no longer bothers them. This is what watching such horrific things can do to you.
You must also be aware that everything you take in affect your future actions. Do you find yourself going to new places looking over your shoulder. Are there certain neighborhoods you are afraid to enter. Do you find yourself saying things that you thought you would never say. All these actions or reactions are caused by experiences you had in life either through viewing or hearing or participating.
We as believers must be careful to guard the entry ways into our hearts. If you do view these things, think about what the response of a Christian should be in such situations. This way it will prepare you to behave as a Christian should something tragic happen.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things
On Mt Transfiguration, where Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus,what was the significance/symbolism of this event? Also, did Moses experience physical death or was he translated/”walked with God” as did Enoch and Elijah?
Moses and Elijah represented the law and the prophets which were fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The Law and the Prophets represented all of the Old Testament scriptures. But the key verse is Matthew 17:5. In this the Heavenly Father said to hear Jesus, because Jesus the Christ was the fulfillment of the Law and Prophets. Therefore if you listened to Christ you will understand the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Moses died a physical death. His appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration shows that God is the God of the living and not the dead. In other words there is no such thing as soul sleep. Soul sleep means that you rest in the earth until the resurrection. Once we die we now go into the presence of God or we enter into hell. Moses as alluded to in the Book of Jude went to be with God the Father.
Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.