Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

they could enter the Promised Land. His life of trial and sacrifice
seemed to have been almost to no purpose.
Yet he knew that God had given him his mission and work.
When he was first called to lead Israel from slavery, he pulled back
from the responsibility, but he had not refused the burden. Even
when the Lord had proposed to release him and destroy rebellious
Israel, Moses could not accept. He had received special evidences of
God's favor, he had obtained a rich experience in the fellowship of
God's love during the stay in the wilderness. He felt he had made a
wise decision in choosing to bear suffering with the people of God
rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a little while.
As he looked back on his experience, one wrong act spoiled the
record. If that transgression could be blotted out, he felt that he
would be ready to die. He was assured that repentance and faith in
the promised Sacrifice were all that God required, and again Moses
confessed his sin and asked earnestly for pardon in the name of
Jesus.
Now a panoramic view of the Land of Promise was shown to
him, not faint and uncertain in the dim distance but standing clear,
distinct, and beautiful to his delighted vision. In this scene he saw it
not as it then appeared but as it would become with God's blessing.
There were mountains covered with cedar trees, hills gray with
olives and fragrant with the scent of the vine, wide green plains
bright with flowers and rich in fruitfulness, palm trees, waving fields
of wheat and barley, sunny valleys musical with the ripple of brooks
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