Moses Dies on Mount Nebo

As promised, just before Moses died, God led him up to Mount Nebo to show Moses the Promised Land. God reminded Moses that this was the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, many generataions ago and God is a faithful God who fulfills His promise.

The death of Moses is remarkable and perhaps something all believers should look forward to. Firstly, Moses knew when he will die because God told him so. Secondly, although Moses was old, 120 years, he did not die of old age because "his eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished", it was simply God's time to call him from the Earth. Thirdly if Moses had any fear of death it would be at the absolute minimum, it seemed that Moses obediently and perhaps looking forward to answer God's call to let his life end here with greater expectation to finally be with God.

One of the highest praises God gave any humans, was to Moses when it is written, "since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face".



Deuteronomy 34

Moses Dies on Mount Nebo

 1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,[a] 3 the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day. 7 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.
9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
10 But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 in all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land, 12 and by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.