May 14 – Joshua 1:1; “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun…”
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Pray today your Mormon friend or relative would look in their Bible to see that Moses actually died and was buried. Share with them from the end of Deuteronomy how this happened, and that he was indeed dead, prove it to them through the Bible. Where in the Bible does it say that Moses took part in the first resurrection with Christ?
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“It is clear that he was translated and taken into heaven without tasting death so that, with Elijah, another translated being, he could return on the Mount of Transfiguration and give keys and authority to Peter, James and John. (Matt. 17:1-13;Alma45:18-19; Teachings, p. 158…) And we know that he had part with Christ in the first resurrection.” Mormon Doctrine, p. 365.
Moses and Elias – Elijah came from heaven in the same body which he had upon earth, for he was translated, and did not see death, 2 Kings 2:11 . And the body of Moses was probably raised again, as a pledge of the resurrection; and as Christ is to come to judge the quick and the dead, for we shall not all die, but all shall be changed, 1 Corinthians 15:51 , he probably gave the full representation of this in the person of Moses, who died, and was thus raised to life, (or appeared now as he shall appear when raised from the dead in the last day), and in the person of Elijah, who never tasted death. Both their bodies exhibit the same appearance, to show that the bodies of glorified saints are the same, whether the person had been translated, or whether he had died. It was a constant and prevalent tradition among the Jews, that both Moses and Elijah should appear in the times of the Messiah, and to this very tradition the disciples refer, Matthew 17:10 .
When did Elijah return?
You sure have a lot of “probably’s” in your paragraph.
2 Peter 1:19-21
King James Version (KJV)
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Amen! 🙂 Probably and ‘if’ are nothing to base truth on!