3834-Moses and Paul by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 20, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 32.

3834—Moses and Paul

By Editor

How can you say Moses was in the kingdom, when Paul says plainly that we have not received the promises yet? Heb. 11:13. A. J. F.

We have not said that Moses was in the kingdom. No one will be in the kingdom as promised to Abraham until the earth is restored, because that kingdom is constituted of the earth, with the new Jerusalem as its capital. Being in the kingdom as promised to Abraham, of which Hebrews 11 speaks, is one thing; having a part with God in glory is another. That Moses was translated is clearly evident, because he was with Christ on the holy mount, when a vision of the future kingdom was seen. See Matt. 17: 1-9, and elsewhere. The kingdom to which Abraham looked, according to Rom. 4:13, embraced the whole world—not this world in its present condition, but this world redeemed from the curse. We do not know of any one who has spoken of Moses as being in the kingdom. Just where he is—that is another thing. He is with God and His angels somewhere. Those things need not worry us.