Tuesday 01Feb2022
This morning's Old Testament reading brought me to a passage in Deuteronomy chapter 18 where Moses told the children of Israel that the LORD would send to them a prophet "like me" (like Moses). Deuteronomy 18:18 tells us that this prophet would tell Israel everything that the LORD commands.
Deuteronomy 18:14 - 18 GNB Good News Bible
14Then Moses said, “In the land you are about to occupy, people follow the advice of those who practise divination and look for omens, but the LORD your God does not allow you to do this. 15Instead, he will send you a prophet like me from among your own people, and you are to obey him.
16“On the day that you were gathered at Mount Sinai, you begged not to hear the LORD speak again or to see his fiery presence any more, because you were afraid you would die. 17So the LORD said to me, ‘They have made a wise request. 18I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.
This prophecy about a prophet like Moses was subsequently fulfilled in the coming of Iesus the Anointed One, born in Bethlehem the city of David, grew up in Nazareth, baptized by John the Baptist and was filled with the Holy Spirit whom God gave to him, coming down upon him like a dove just after his baptism.
In the Acts of the Apostles chapter 3, the Apostle Peter told the people in Jerusalem after he had healed the crippled man at the Beautiful gate:
Acts 3:22 KJV King James Version
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Similarly, the disciple Stephen on the day he was martyred, told the high priest and the crowd who surrounded him:
Acts 7:37 KJV
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Brothers and Sisters in the Anointed One, let us hold fast to the words of our Lord Iesus the Anointed. He is the prophet promised by the LORD since ancient times, a prophet like Moses. "Him shall ye hear".
