Here is an illustration — Biblical or non-Biblical? — to expose the evil men against whom Jude writes. Michael the archangel, in disputation with the devil about the body of Moses, is content to leave the issue in God’s hands: “The Lord rebuke thee”.
The parallel passage in Peter runs thus: “Presumptuous are they, not afraid to speak evil of dignities (glories); whereas angels which are greater (than they?) in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord” (2 Peter 2:10,11).
The modernists have a field day here. Without any evidence (in fact, against the evidence, as will be seen by and by), they assume that an apocryphal work, The Assumption of Moses, was already in existence and that Jude was alluding to it in this place.
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Author: Harry Whittaker
Keywords: Devil, Body of Moses, Satan, Assumption of Moses
Bible reference(s): Zechariah 3:2, 2 Peter 2:10-11, Jude 1:9
Source: “The Devil and the body of Moses,” Jude.
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