August 24, 2025 • 30 mins
The Battle for Moses’ Body: Michael vs. Satan in Jude 1:9 Buried deep in the book of Jude is one of the Bible’s strangest and most overlooked mysteries: Michael the Archangel disputing with Satan over the body of Moses. Why would the enemy want a prophet’s corpse so badly? Was it about idolatry, desecration, or something darker like a counterfeit resurrection? In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, host Bennett Tanton breaks down the supernatural warfare hidden in Jude 1:9. From the risk of Moses’ grave becoming an idol, to the enemy’s attempt to corrupt symbols of God’s covenant, to the larger battle over resurrection itself — this single verse opens the door to one of the most fascinating spiritual conflicts in Scripture. We’ll uncover:
✅ Why God buried Moses in secret
✅ The possible reasons Satan wanted Moses’ body
✅ How Michael the Archangel invoked God’s authority against the enemy
✅ What this cosmic showdown reveals about the war over death, resurrection, and even our own bodies
This isn’t Sunday school flannelgraph. This is raw supernatural warfare in plain text. If Satan will fight over bones, how much more will he fight over your life?
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✅ Why God buried Moses in secret
✅ The possible reasons Satan wanted Moses’ body
✅ How Michael the Archangel invoked God’s authority against the enemy
✅ What this cosmic showdown reveals about the war over death, resurrection, and even our own bodies
This isn’t Sunday school flannelgraph. This is raw supernatural warfare in plain text. If Satan will fight over bones, how much more will he fight over your life?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the static.
This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic encrypt
the signals from the saddles of the party, we did
where the trop got secret, snow parted, microphone alchemists scriptures
with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the midst
We dropped fast like plagues revelations in the catus, broadcasting
(00:24):
truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a watchman's blade,
forth whatt sound, while your whole system fade blood moons
that for love echoes in the pond sas cross sompen
through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, We
ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code the dreams,
so with you throw them in better guards to mind
is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design design Yeah,
(00:49):
yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Benettantan, and
today we're not just scratching the surface of the Bible.
We're diving headfirst into one of the strangest, most overlooked mysteries.
Tucked away in a single verse in the book of Jude,
there's this bizarre scene where the archangel Michael and Satan
(01:22):
himself are going at it, not over a nation, and
not over a soul, but over a corpse, the body
of Moses. Now, think about that for a second. Moses
isn't just anybody. He's the lawgiver, the prophet who split sees,
(01:46):
called down plagues, and walked face to face with God.
And yet when he dies, God personally buries him in secret,
no gravesite, no memorial, just hidden. And then suddenly in
Jude we get this cosmic showdown between Michael and Satan
(02:10):
over those bones, no context, no explanation, just tossed at
us like a spiritual grenade. So why did the enemy
want Moses Moses's body so bad? Was it about sparking idolatry,
(02:30):
turning his grave into a shrine? Maybe? Was it about corruption, desecration,
or maybe even staging a counterfeit resurrection to deceive Israel.
Whatever it was, it was important enough for Satan to
show up himself and for Michael to step in with
(02:51):
divine authority. This episode is going to be called the
Battle for Moses's Body. What the Bible doesn't tell us
about the war over the dead. We're going to explore
the hidden war over the body of a prophet, what
that reveals about the unseen battle over death itself, and
(03:15):
why even our bones might be part of the battleground
between heaven and hell. So grab your Bible, grab your coffee,
or maybe just grab a hold of the edge of
your seat, because this one's going to push you to
rethink how you see death, resurrection, and the invisible war
(03:38):
raging just below the veil. And before we dig in,
don't forget. If you enjoy these deep dives into the
strange corners of scripture, cryptids, conspiracies, and everything else we
cover here, hit that like button, share the show with
a friend, and drop a review wherever you listen. That's
(04:00):
how the show grows and how we keep planting seeds together.
All right, let's get into it. So Michael versus Satan
the Forgotten Verse. Let's start with the text itself. Jude
(04:24):
one nine one verse, just a single line in a
tiny letter. Most people skip right over. It says, but
Michael the Archangel, when he disputed with the devil and
argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce
him against him A railing judgment, but said the Lord
(04:49):
rebuke you. That's it. No context, no backstory, no follow up,
just a strange scene hanging in the middle of a
letter that's already packed with warnings about false teachers and
spiritual corruption. And honestly, it feels like the biblical equivalent
(05:11):
of a found footage clip dropped in raw with no explanation.
You're left asking, wait, wait, what did I just see?
Now think about how wild this is. We're not talking
about a symbolic parable. This is an allegory, okay. Jude
(05:34):
is reporting something that happened to the unseen, happened in
the unseen reme a legal dispute between two cosmic, cosmic beings,
and the subject of their dispute is the lifeless body
of Moses. Let's pause there. Of all the things Satan
(05:55):
could concern himself with, kingdoms, soulsations, wars, why on earth
does he care about a corpse? And not just any corpse, though,
but one God himself buried in secret. Back in Deuterotomy
thirty four, it says Moses died in the land of
(06:17):
Moab and God personally buried him, with no man knowing
the location, no tomb, no shrine, no marker, just hidden away.
So picture this. Satan shows up at the burial ready
to lay claim to Moses's body. Maybe he wanted to
corrupt it, desecrate it, or use it as a leverage
(06:41):
against Israel. And Michael, the archangel, the one whose scripture
often shows as God's warrior and protector of Israel, steps in.
You'd expect a cinematic fight scene, swords clashing, lightning spilling
the sky, splitting the sky, But instead what happens Michael
(07:04):
doesn't pull rank with power. He doesn't fight in his
own strength. He simply says, the Lord rebuke you. That
phrase is loaded. It tells us a few things. First
that even Michael, one of the most powerful spiritual beings,
(07:26):
doesn't stand on his own authority when confronting Satan. He
appeals directly to God's authority. Second, it shows this wasn't
just about brute force, It was about legal standing. This
was a courtroom drama, not a battlefield brawl. Satan was
(07:49):
trying to make a case to claim rights he didn't have.
Michael counters, not with violence, but with the higher authority
of the Lord's word, and that right there opens a
window into the strange mechanics of spiritual warfare. This isn't
Marvel versus DC. It's more like comic cosmic litigation, rights, authority, jurisdiction.
(08:17):
Those things matter in the unseen world. Satan is called
the accuser after all. Okay, he thrives on loopholes and
technicalities and legal claims. The fact that he thought he
had the right to Moses' body tells us there's more
going on here than we realize. And if you zoom out,
(08:41):
this versus almost a microcosm of the bigger war, not
just the war over one body, but the war over
humanity itself. Our lives, our deaths, and our destinies. They're
all contested territory. Satan will fight over with God calls
(09:05):
Satan will fight over what God calls holy. And Moses
was one of those, one of God's holiest servants. So
this little verse in Jude it's just not a throwaway detail.
It's a crack in the curtain, all right behind the veil,
(09:25):
showing us that even death itself is a battleground. Even
a body in the grave is part of the war
between good and evil. And if that's true for Moses,
it makes you wonder what's at stake for the rest
of us, why the body mattered? Idolatry, deception, and power.
(09:54):
All right, so let's tackle the question head on. Why
did Satan want Moses's body? What could possibly be so
important about a corpse that it sparked a cosmic showdown
between the prince of darkness and one of God's mightiest archangels.
(10:14):
There's a few theories, and each one reveals something deep
about how the unseen world works. Number one the risk
of idolatry. So first up the obvious one, idolatry. The Israelites,
Blessed bless them, have had and have a long track
(10:37):
record of elevating symbols into idols. Remember the Golden Calf.
They literally turned their ear rings into a god. Within
weeks of leaving Egypt, or later in Kings two, Two
(10:58):
Kings eighteen, they were still burning incense to a bronze
serpent Moses had made centuries earlier, treating it like a
divine object until King Hezekiah destroyed it. So imagine if
they had Moses's body, the man who split the Red Sea,
(11:22):
who spoke with God on the mountain, who carried the
Ten Commandments down, in his arms. A gravesite like that
could have become a shrine, a pilgrimage site. I mean seriously,
it would have maybe even a full blown cult. Satan
(11:43):
thrives on that kind of misdirection. He doesn't have to
get you to worship him outright, He just has to
get you to worship something else. If Israel started bowing
down to the tomb of Moses, then Satan wins, right.
And maybe that's why God himself buried Moses in secret,
(12:06):
to cut the legs out from under that temptation before
it could even begin, all right. Number two, desecration and corruption.
This is another angle. So corruption. Moses was more than
just a man. He was a symbol of the Covenant,
the lawgiver right. His life embodied God's promises to Israel.
(12:33):
If Satan could get his hands on Moses's body, he
could desecrate it, mock it, or turn it into a
weapon of shame. Imagine the propaganda value. Desecrating the body
of God's prophet would be like a spiritual trophy. Kill seriously,
and this isn't without precedent. Ancient cultures often desecrated enemies
(12:59):
bodies to show dominance, cutting off the heads, hanging corpses
on city walls, or scattering bones to humiliate people. Satan
could have been aiming for something like that, turning Moses's
death into a tool for dishonor Number three, and this
(13:22):
is a crazy one, but a counterfeit resurrection. Now here's
where things get a little stranger, right. Some scholars and
traditions suggest Satan may have wanted to stage a counterfeit resurrection.
Think about it. Moses was deeply loved, a towering figure
(13:45):
of Israel's faith, And what if Satan had animated or
reanimated his body not to bring him back to life,
but to create a puppet, a counterfeit savior. We already
know deception in Satan's favorite We already know it's his
(14:05):
favorite play, right, and scripture hints that he will one
day empower a figure the Antichrist, with lying signs and wonders,
even imitating resurrection. So perhaps this fight wasn't over Moses's body.
(14:25):
Wasn't this just about Israel's past, but about a dark
foreshadowing of Satan's future tactics. A fake Moses could have
led Israel straight into spiritual ruin for sure. Now, Number
(14:46):
four Moses and the prophetic future. So finally there's the
angle of prophecy. And remember, Moses showed up again in
the New Testament the Transconfiguration, standing besides Elijah with Jesus.
And that's huge. It suggests Moses had a role to
(15:10):
play beyond his death, and his body wasn't just in
the dust ground. It was preserved for God's purposes. Now,
if Satan knew that, he may have been trying to
cut off God's plan to hijack Moses, Moses's prophetic future,
(15:33):
to derail his reappearance as a witness in Christ's glory.
In other words, the enemy wasn't just after a corpse.
He was trying to tamper with the timeline. So why
did Satan want Moses's body? Maybe it was for idolatry,
maybe for desecration, maybe for a counterfeit resurrection, or maybe
(15:57):
for some prophetic sabotage we still don't fully understand. But
whatever the reason, it was big enough that Michael the
Archangel had to step in and settle the matter. And
here's the takeaway. This wasn't just about Moses. It was
about the principle Satan will fight tooth and nail to
(16:19):
corrupt anything that carries the image of God, even bones
in the ground that tells us something sobering. Our lives,
our deaths our very bodies are not just off limits
in the spiritual war number three, the War over the dead,
(16:43):
resurrection prophecy and you. So far we've zoomed in on
the strange cosmic tug of war over Moses's body. But
let's zoom in because this isn't just a story of
about an old prophet buried in secret. It's about something
(17:04):
far bigger, the war over death itself and the way
our very bodies are contested ground in the spiritual conflict.
The grave is a battleground. Scripture makes it clear that
death isn't the end of the story. It's a transition.
(17:25):
That's why the Bible calls death the last enemy. That's
one Corinthians, fifteen twenty six. And if death is an enemy,
then the grave is a battlefield. Satan doesn't just want
to take souls down with him. He wants to mar corrupt,
(17:46):
or lay claim to what belongs to God. Think about that.
From Genesis on we see graves, bones, and burial places
treated as sacred. Jacob wanted his bones carried back to Canaan.
Joseph made his family swear they'd take his bones out
(18:08):
of Egypt when God delivered them. Why because even in death,
God's promises matter. The body wasn't disposable. It was tied
to destiny and tied to resurrection. Now fast forward to Moses.
His body mattered in ways we may not fully understand,
(18:31):
and Satan knew it. The fact that the devil would
contest a burial shows us this. The war doesn't stop
at the grave, so resurrection power. But here's the flip side,
the hope embodied in all this. If Satan fights over bodies,
(18:55):
it's because he knows that God intends. He knows what
God intends to do with them, Resurrection, restoration, the renewal
of all things. Paul says it in Philistinees three twenty
one that Jesus will transform our lowly bodies to be
(19:18):
like his glorious body. That's not poetic fluff. It's a
promise of physical resurrection. So of course the enemy hates that.
Of course he wants to tamper with it. If he
can desecrate, corrupt, or counterfeit the resurrection, he can muddy
(19:40):
the waters. Of God's greatest victory. The fight over Moses's
body was really about the bigger fight over resurrection itself
and in many and it makes sense why Moses shows
up at the transconfiguration. His presence wasn't random. It was
(20:02):
a statement God's promises extend beyond the grave, and no
power of Hell can stop it. So what's this mean
for you? Let's bring it down from cosmic court room
battles to your everyday life. What does this mean for us?
(20:25):
It means your body matters, not just your soul, not
just your spirit, Your flesh and blood body is part
of God's plan, and the enemy wants to convince us otherwise.
It wants us to abuse our bodies, despise them, treat
them like garbage, and see them as meaningless shells. But
(20:47):
that's not how God sees it. He calls our bodies
temples of the Holy Spirit. He calls them instruments for
his glory, and ultimately he promises to raise them up.
It also means we shouldn't be surprised when the fight
feels personal, because it is. If Satan fought over Moses's bones,
(21:11):
don't you think he won't try to fight over you your health,
your mind, your identity, your legacy. But here's the good news.
Just like Michael didn't fight on his own strength, but
said the Lord rebuke you, we don't fight alone either.
(21:32):
The same authority that backed Michael is available to us
through Christ. The bigger seed planting the battle for Moses's
body is more than a weird footnote in the Bible.
It's a seed planted in the text to remind us
that there's a war raging just beyond the veil, over life,
(21:59):
over death, over resurrection. The enemy wants what God calls holy,
but in the end, the Lord, the Lord's authority wins always.
And maybe that's the real lesson. If even the bones
of a prophet are worth fighting over, then your life,
(22:23):
your whole being, must be worth infinitely more so. There
it is one verse tucked away in Jude that cracks
open a mystery. Most pulpits won't even touch. Michael the
archangel Satan himself, and a fight over the bones of Moses,
(22:48):
not a metaphor not a parable, a glimpse behind the
curtain at the kind of war that rages in places
that we can't see. If we learn anything today, it's
this death doesn't mean the battle is over your body,
your soul, your destiny. They matter so much that even
(23:11):
the enemy is willing to contend for them. Moses's body
wasn't just a corpse in the ground. It represented covenant,
prophecy and resurrection, and Satan knew it. But God's authority
won that day, just like it always will. That's the
takeaway I want you to sit with. If the devil
(23:36):
will fight over bones, how much more will he fight
over your life? And Yet, just like Michael stood his
ground with the authority of the Lord, you and I
don't have to fight this battle alone. The same God
who buried Moses in secret and raised him to stand
against beside Christ in the mountain on the mountain is
(24:01):
the same God who will fight for you, raise you,
and bring you into His glory. This is kind of strange,
powerful truth. We plant here at Broadcasting Seeds not to
scare you, but to wake you up, to remind you
there's more going on than what you see. That behind
(24:25):
the headlines, behind the everyday grind, there's an invisible war raging,
and you're right in the middle of it. So if
this episode stirred something in you, if it made you
think a little, even a little differently, about scripture, about
the supernatural, about your own worth in God's eyes, than
(24:48):
do me a favor like this podcast, share it with
a friend who needs to hear it, and leave a
review wherever you listen. That's how the show grows, and
how together we can keep planting seeds that just might
change how people see the world. Until next time. I'm benettantin,
(25:12):
Stay sharp, stay awake, and never forget. Even the bones
are a battle ground.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I'm married in the desert, the solids in the crown,
and the enemies whisper star.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Down in the flame. The Devil's claw take it, Clive.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Cry, the Lord revealed you why.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
The devil dog shot?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Ain't straight? Brow? Don set that ride? Still a battle
f the war? Her child left a jot sad we
(26:21):
are child.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I don't see the making. Who tries to still your sight?
Acuna it save your dress up in the night. But
I haven't got the promise that the dupe it s dance,
not even the grid but flaps advertisers.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Michael cries, the Lord Rabojo, who light a kiss a
josh shot ain't straight?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Brow don't set that ride still a battle feet the
war right lest that what God.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Said, even tho roes are represhed for the thief.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
But the power of Jod, there's a shadow dies who
has a rap said fire, We all like your blood.
Whoever drops that drop but black?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Where's that blood?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Hiel cried?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
The Lord revealed Joe.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Jack the lost for you. I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The lady b
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Assass
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the static.
This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic encrypt
the signals from the saddles of the party, we did
where the trop got secret, snow parted, microphone alchemists scriptures
with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the midst
We dropped fast like plagues revelations in the catus, broadcasting
(00:24):
truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a watchman's blade,
forth whatt sound, while your whole system fade blood moons
that for love echoes in the pond sas cross sompen
through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, We
ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code the dreams,
so with you throw them in better guards to mind
is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design design Yeah,
(00:49):
yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Benettantan, and
today we're not just scratching the surface of the Bible.
We're diving headfirst into one of the strangest, most overlooked mysteries.
Tucked away in a single verse in the book of Jude,
there's this bizarre scene where the archangel Michael and Satan
(01:22):
himself are going at it, not over a nation, and
not over a soul, but over a corpse, the body
of Moses. Now, think about that for a second. Moses
isn't just anybody. He's the lawgiver, the prophet who split sees,
(01:46):
called down plagues, and walked face to face with God.
And yet when he dies, God personally buries him in secret,
no gravesite, no memorial, just hidden. And then suddenly in
Jude we get this cosmic showdown between Michael and Satan
(02:10):
over those bones, no context, no explanation, just tossed at
us like a spiritual grenade. So why did the enemy
want Moses Moses's body so bad? Was it about sparking idolatry,
(02:30):
turning his grave into a shrine? Maybe? Was it about corruption, desecration,
or maybe even staging a counterfeit resurrection to deceive Israel.
Whatever it was, it was important enough for Satan to
show up himself and for Michael to step in with
(02:51):
divine authority. This episode is going to be called the
Battle for Moses's Body. What the Bible doesn't tell us
about the war over the dead. We're going to explore
the hidden war over the body of a prophet, what
that reveals about the unseen battle over death itself, and
(03:15):
why even our bones might be part of the battleground
between heaven and hell. So grab your Bible, grab your coffee,
or maybe just grab a hold of the edge of
your seat, because this one's going to push you to
rethink how you see death, resurrection, and the invisible war
(03:38):
raging just below the veil. And before we dig in,
don't forget. If you enjoy these deep dives into the
strange corners of scripture, cryptids, conspiracies, and everything else we
cover here, hit that like button, share the show with
a friend, and drop a review wherever you listen. That's
(04:00):
how the show grows and how we keep planting seeds together.
All right, let's get into it. So Michael versus Satan
the Forgotten Verse. Let's start with the text itself. Jude
(04:24):
one nine one verse, just a single line in a
tiny letter. Most people skip right over. It says, but
Michael the Archangel, when he disputed with the devil and
argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce
him against him A railing judgment, but said the Lord
(04:49):
rebuke you. That's it. No context, no backstory, no follow up,
just a strange scene hanging in the middle of a
letter that's already packed with warnings about false teachers and
spiritual corruption. And honestly, it feels like the biblical equivalent
(05:11):
of a found footage clip dropped in raw with no explanation.
You're left asking, wait, wait, what did I just see?
Now think about how wild this is. We're not talking
about a symbolic parable. This is an allegory, okay. Jude
(05:34):
is reporting something that happened to the unseen, happened in
the unseen reme a legal dispute between two cosmic, cosmic beings,
and the subject of their dispute is the lifeless body
of Moses. Let's pause there. Of all the things Satan
(05:55):
could concern himself with, kingdoms, soulsations, wars, why on earth
does he care about a corpse? And not just any corpse, though,
but one God himself buried in secret. Back in Deuterotomy
thirty four, it says Moses died in the land of
(06:17):
Moab and God personally buried him, with no man knowing
the location, no tomb, no shrine, no marker, just hidden away.
So picture this. Satan shows up at the burial ready
to lay claim to Moses's body. Maybe he wanted to
corrupt it, desecrate it, or use it as a leverage
(06:41):
against Israel. And Michael, the archangel, the one whose scripture
often shows as God's warrior and protector of Israel, steps in.
You'd expect a cinematic fight scene, swords clashing, lightning spilling
the sky, splitting the sky, But instead what happens Michael
(07:04):
doesn't pull rank with power. He doesn't fight in his
own strength. He simply says, the Lord rebuke you. That
phrase is loaded. It tells us a few things. First
that even Michael, one of the most powerful spiritual beings,
(07:26):
doesn't stand on his own authority when confronting Satan. He
appeals directly to God's authority. Second, it shows this wasn't
just about brute force, It was about legal standing. This
was a courtroom drama, not a battlefield brawl. Satan was
(07:49):
trying to make a case to claim rights he didn't have.
Michael counters, not with violence, but with the higher authority
of the Lord's word, and that right there opens a
window into the strange mechanics of spiritual warfare. This isn't
Marvel versus DC. It's more like comic cosmic litigation, rights, authority, jurisdiction.
(08:17):
Those things matter in the unseen world. Satan is called
the accuser after all. Okay, he thrives on loopholes and
technicalities and legal claims. The fact that he thought he
had the right to Moses' body tells us there's more
going on here than we realize. And if you zoom out,
(08:41):
this versus almost a microcosm of the bigger war, not
just the war over one body, but the war over
humanity itself. Our lives, our deaths, and our destinies. They're
all contested territory. Satan will fight over with God calls
(09:05):
Satan will fight over what God calls holy. And Moses
was one of those, one of God's holiest servants. So
this little verse in Jude it's just not a throwaway detail.
It's a crack in the curtain, all right behind the veil,
(09:25):
showing us that even death itself is a battleground. Even
a body in the grave is part of the war
between good and evil. And if that's true for Moses,
it makes you wonder what's at stake for the rest
of us, why the body mattered? Idolatry, deception, and power.
(09:54):
All right, so let's tackle the question head on. Why
did Satan want Moses's body? What could possibly be so
important about a corpse that it sparked a cosmic showdown
between the prince of darkness and one of God's mightiest archangels.
(10:14):
There's a few theories, and each one reveals something deep
about how the unseen world works. Number one the risk
of idolatry. So first up the obvious one, idolatry. The Israelites,
Blessed bless them, have had and have a long track
(10:37):
record of elevating symbols into idols. Remember the Golden Calf.
They literally turned their ear rings into a god. Within
weeks of leaving Egypt, or later in Kings two, Two
(10:58):
Kings eighteen, they were still burning incense to a bronze
serpent Moses had made centuries earlier, treating it like a
divine object until King Hezekiah destroyed it. So imagine if
they had Moses's body, the man who split the Red Sea,
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who spoke with God on the mountain, who carried the
Ten Commandments down, in his arms. A gravesite like that
could have become a shrine, a pilgrimage site. I mean seriously,
it would have maybe even a full blown cult. Satan
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thrives on that kind of misdirection. He doesn't have to
get you to worship him outright, He just has to
get you to worship something else. If Israel started bowing
down to the tomb of Moses, then Satan wins, right.
And maybe that's why God himself buried Moses in secret,
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to cut the legs out from under that temptation before
it could even begin, all right. Number two, desecration and corruption.
This is another angle. So corruption. Moses was more than
just a man. He was a symbol of the Covenant,
the lawgiver right. His life embodied God's promises to Israel.
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If Satan could get his hands on Moses's body, he
could desecrate it, mock it, or turn it into a
weapon of shame. Imagine the propaganda value. Desecrating the body
of God's prophet would be like a spiritual trophy. Kill seriously,
and this isn't without precedent. Ancient cultures often desecrated enemies
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bodies to show dominance, cutting off the heads, hanging corpses
on city walls, or scattering bones to humiliate people. Satan
could have been aiming for something like that, turning Moses's
death into a tool for dishonor Number three, and this
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is a crazy one, but a counterfeit resurrection. Now here's
where things get a little stranger, right. Some scholars and
traditions suggest Satan may have wanted to stage a counterfeit resurrection.
Think about it. Moses was deeply loved, a towering figure
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of Israel's faith, And what if Satan had animated or
reanimated his body not to bring him back to life,
but to create a puppet, a counterfeit savior. We already
know deception in Satan's favorite We already know it's his
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favorite play, right, and scripture hints that he will one
day empower a figure the Antichrist, with lying signs and wonders,
even imitating resurrection. So perhaps this fight wasn't over Moses's body.
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Wasn't this just about Israel's past, but about a dark
foreshadowing of Satan's future tactics. A fake Moses could have
led Israel straight into spiritual ruin for sure. Now, Number
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four Moses and the prophetic future. So finally there's the
angle of prophecy. And remember, Moses showed up again in
the New Testament the Transconfiguration, standing besides Elijah with Jesus.
And that's huge. It suggests Moses had a role to
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play beyond his death, and his body wasn't just in
the dust ground. It was preserved for God's purposes. Now,
if Satan knew that, he may have been trying to
cut off God's plan to hijack Moses, Moses's prophetic future,
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to derail his reappearance as a witness in Christ's glory.
In other words, the enemy wasn't just after a corpse.
He was trying to tamper with the timeline. So why
did Satan want Moses's body? Maybe it was for idolatry,
maybe for desecration, maybe for a counterfeit resurrection, or maybe
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for some prophetic sabotage we still don't fully understand. But
whatever the reason, it was big enough that Michael the
Archangel had to step in and settle the matter. And
here's the takeaway. This wasn't just about Moses. It was
about the principle Satan will fight tooth and nail to
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corrupt anything that carries the image of God, even bones
in the ground that tells us something sobering. Our lives,
our deaths our very bodies are not just off limits
in the spiritual war number three, the War over the dead,
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resurrection prophecy and you. So far we've zoomed in on
the strange cosmic tug of war over Moses's body. But
let's zoom in because this isn't just a story of
about an old prophet buried in secret. It's about something
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far bigger, the war over death itself and the way
our very bodies are contested ground in the spiritual conflict.
The grave is a battleground. Scripture makes it clear that
death isn't the end of the story. It's a transition.
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That's why the Bible calls death the last enemy. That's
one Corinthians, fifteen twenty six. And if death is an enemy,
then the grave is a battlefield. Satan doesn't just want
to take souls down with him. He wants to mar corrupt,
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or lay claim to what belongs to God. Think about that.
From Genesis on we see graves, bones, and burial places
treated as sacred. Jacob wanted his bones carried back to Canaan.
Joseph made his family swear they'd take his bones out
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of Egypt when God delivered them. Why because even in death,
God's promises matter. The body wasn't disposable. It was tied
to destiny and tied to resurrection. Now fast forward to Moses.
His body mattered in ways we may not fully understand,
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and Satan knew it. The fact that the devil would
contest a burial shows us this. The war doesn't stop
at the grave, so resurrection power. But here's the flip side,
the hope embodied in all this. If Satan fights over bodies,
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it's because he knows that God intends. He knows what
God intends to do with them, Resurrection, restoration, the renewal
of all things. Paul says it in Philistinees three twenty
one that Jesus will transform our lowly bodies to be
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like his glorious body. That's not poetic fluff. It's a
promise of physical resurrection. So of course the enemy hates that.
Of course he wants to tamper with it. If he
can desecrate, corrupt, or counterfeit the resurrection, he can muddy
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the waters. Of God's greatest victory. The fight over Moses's
body was really about the bigger fight over resurrection itself
and in many and it makes sense why Moses shows
up at the transconfiguration. His presence wasn't random. It was
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a statement God's promises extend beyond the grave, and no
power of Hell can stop it. So what's this mean
for you? Let's bring it down from cosmic court room
battles to your everyday life. What does this mean for us?
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It means your body matters, not just your soul, not
just your spirit, Your flesh and blood body is part
of God's plan, and the enemy wants to convince us otherwise.
It wants us to abuse our bodies, despise them, treat
them like garbage, and see them as meaningless shells. But
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that's not how God sees it. He calls our bodies
temples of the Holy Spirit. He calls them instruments for
his glory, and ultimately he promises to raise them up.
It also means we shouldn't be surprised when the fight
feels personal, because it is. If Satan fought over Moses's bones,
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don't you think he won't try to fight over you your health,
your mind, your identity, your legacy. But here's the good news.
Just like Michael didn't fight on his own strength, but
said the Lord rebuke you, we don't fight alone either.
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The same authority that backed Michael is available to us
through Christ. The bigger seed planting the battle for Moses's
body is more than a weird footnote in the Bible.
It's a seed planted in the text to remind us
that there's a war raging just beyond the veil, over life,
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over death, over resurrection. The enemy wants what God calls holy,
but in the end, the Lord, the Lord's authority wins always.
And maybe that's the real lesson. If even the bones
of a prophet are worth fighting over, then your life,
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your whole being, must be worth infinitely more so. There
it is one verse tucked away in Jude that cracks
open a mystery. Most pulpits won't even touch. Michael the
archangel Satan himself, and a fight over the bones of Moses,
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not a metaphor not a parable, a glimpse behind the
curtain at the kind of war that rages in places
that we can't see. If we learn anything today, it's
this death doesn't mean the battle is over your body,
your soul, your destiny. They matter so much that even
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the enemy is willing to contend for them. Moses's body
wasn't just a corpse in the ground. It represented covenant,
prophecy and resurrection, and Satan knew it. But God's authority
won that day, just like it always will. That's the
takeaway I want you to sit with. If the devil
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will fight over bones, how much more will he fight
over your life? And Yet, just like Michael stood his
ground with the authority of the Lord, you and I
don't have to fight this battle alone. The same God
who buried Moses in secret and raised him to stand
against beside Christ in the mountain on the mountain is
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the same God who will fight for you, raise you,
and bring you into His glory. This is kind of strange,
powerful truth. We plant here at Broadcasting Seeds not to
scare you, but to wake you up, to remind you
there's more going on than what you see. That behind
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the headlines, behind the everyday grind, there's an invisible war raging,
and you're right in the middle of it. So if
this episode stirred something in you, if it made you
think a little, even a little differently, about scripture, about
the supernatural, about your own worth in God's eyes, than
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do me a favor like this podcast, share it with
a friend who needs to hear it, and leave a
review wherever you listen. That's how the show grows, and
how together we can keep planting seeds that just might
change how people see the world. Until next time. I'm benettantin,
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Stay sharp, stay awake, and never forget. Even the bones
are a battle ground.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I'm married in the desert, the solids in the crown,
and the enemies whisper star.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Down in the flame. The Devil's claw take it, Clive.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Cry, the Lord revealed you why.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
The devil dog shot?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Ain't straight? Brow? Don set that ride? Still a battle
f the war? Her child left a jot sad we
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are child.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I don't see the making. Who tries to still your sight?
Acuna it save your dress up in the night. But
I haven't got the promise that the dupe it s dance,
not even the grid but flaps advertisers.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Michael cries, the Lord Rabojo, who light a kiss a
josh shot ain't straight?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Brow don't set that ride still a battle feet the
war right lest that what God.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Said, even tho roes are represhed for the thief.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
But the power of Jod, there's a shadow dies who
has a rap said fire, We all like your blood.
Whoever drops that drop but black?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Where's that blood?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Hiel cried?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
The Lord revealed Joe.
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Jack the lost for you. I don't.
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