We are now nearing the final words of Moses to the people of Israel. Moses is 120 years old. He had been just forty when he went out and killed an Egyptian man. He had hidden for forty years before he returned to rescue God's people, and now he had labored over them for another forty years. Moses' strength was not abated, and his eyesight was not impaired. But he had sinned against God, and so he would not be allowed to enter the Promised Land. But there is more to it than that; Moses had come to represent the Law. His successor, Joshua (Yeshua), would represent the work of God in that his name is the same as our Savior's name and that the name itself means "God Saves." It is fitting to our story that the Law would not lead the people into rest and salvation but that Yeshua would lead them in. Again, we are faced with the shadow of the more beautiful thing. Christ has led us into salvation and rest...