Jesus-is-GOD wrote:
I believe it may have gotten unto "Heaven / Salvation" by this post of yours earlier re Moses - which would also forfeit one's standing as a son & joint heir ---
[i]""For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. Hebrews 6:4-6 (NASB)
The rock Moses struck twice represented Jesus. Jesus even testifies of this in John. Jesus will never be crucified-struck, twice. Now, can there be any question as to why Moses missed out on the promise land?"[/i]
And why I replied with these vs.s -
Mat 17:1-3 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him.
As with Moses so with Jesus. Both were human who had intense intimacy with the Father, chosen of Him to represent him in the Earth. Jesus, of course, being of Him. Now, having said that, can we have an understanding of the severity of obeying God regardless of our relationship with Him, regardless of Him "knowing" us and us "knowing" Him? He is no respecter of persons when His holiness demands perfection-holiness. Moses missed it and paid the consequence, not unto death or loss of justification mind you, but God's best in this life and all that it could be, given the time Moses lived and governed, i.e., the physical Promised land. With Jesus, had He failed in the slightest, the Spiritual Promised land not only would have been forfeited but human life as we know it would have forever been damned, wandering, tormented by Satan and his legions, eternally separated from God. For this I praise God for the man Jesus who did not fail and who now sits at the right hand of God making intercession in our behalf. Can you see that?