Deuteronomy 34:5-6 - And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.
Obviously someone other than Moses wrote the last few sentences of Deuteronomy. I wonder if it was Joshua or Caleb or one of Moses' sons. These words must have been added onto Moses' writings quite some time later, otherwise the phrase "to this day" would make no sense. You wouldn't say such a thing the day after Moses died.
Moses was buried in the valley, not on Mount Nebo, where God had miraculously showed him all the land of Canaan. I wonder how the writer knew that Moses was buried there, since no one knows where his exact grave was. Maybe Joshua or a small group or even all of the Israelites last saw him in the valley alive from a distance but then couldn't find him later. Maybe God provided a special sign that isn't recorded here. Or maybe he simply gave the writer this information by special revelation.
I wonder what it would be like to know you were going to heaven today for sure.
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