I was just reading over the Epistle of Jude, the one-chapter, short epistle, and I went to a verse that says, "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." ...which teaches us not to speak evil of dignities...to speak evil of the false teachers and their false doctrines or bring slander or accusation against those that despitefully use the members of the body of Christ... and I don't think I need to mention who they are.
So, I tried to find where that is in the Old Testament, because the old testament conceals what Christ revealed under the new testament, and if you know Christ you know everything else. So I searched and found a verse in Zecharaiah. Chapter 3,
"And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him."
The angel of the Lord would be Michael. The angels have special duties and purposes that the Lord chooses for them, like how Gabriel always announces, just like he announced to Mary how she'd bear the Lord's Son in her womb, according to the prophecies in Daniel...Isaiah...so on and so forth.
"And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?"
But I can't find where it talks about the body of Moses. There's a hint that it could be in Zechariah Chapter 2, the end of, where it talks about Jesus Christ dwelling among Jerusalem, prophecying His first coming, and joining them to the Lord (the body of Christ), and that could be that way because Jerusalem was under the law until Jesus fulfilled them by grace and fulfilled the law, and the law was given by Moses, as if the law was the body of Moses, but where was Satan to dispute him?
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