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WHY MOSES COULDN'T ENTER PROMISED LAND "And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said." (Deu. 31:1-3)Joshua, not Moses, must lead the Israelites across Jordan and into the land of promise. The immediate reason for this is that Moses didn’t sanctify the Lord before the people at the waters of Meribah (Num. 20:12-13). But the typical reason is that Moses represents the law, and the law can save no one. Joshua, the Old Testament name for Jesus, pictures Christ who ends the law at Calvary and leads us to victory. Romans 10:4 is clear about the matter: "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." II Corinthians 2:14 is also appropriate since Joshua, not Moses, led the people of God to victory: “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”Moses SEEING the land of promise, but not possessing it pictures those under the law seeing the things of Christ IN TYPE, but not understanding them or possessing them since it was all a mystery (I Cor. 2:7-8; Col. 1:26-27).