Sunday, 10 August 2008

The Prohecy of The Final Prophet

Moses was different from all other prophets the Bible says. God did not speak to him through dreams and vision like to other prophets but the Lord spoke to him face to face (Numbers 12:6-8). However this does not mean Moses actually saw the physical face of the Lord for the Lord does not have any body but he saw the theophany form of God in which the Lord actually talked to Moses (ref. Exodus 19:19-25). The Lord has given Moses many of His revelations.

One of the revelations of God which was given to Moses just before he died was concerning the final Prophet that will come. This amazing Word of God came to him by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Deuteronomy 18:15 “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.” In Deuteronomy 18:18-19 further said, “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.” There is no doubt that a Prophet that mentioned here is referring to the final Prophet namely Jesus Christ and not the rests of prophets that came after Moses.

To contrast the final Prophet as Moses has said in verses 15, 18-19, he further describe the details of being the true and false prophet. This account was recorded in Deuteronomy 18:20-22 “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”

In the New Testament Peter made it clear that ‘a Prophet’ mentioned by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15 was referring to the Lord Jesus Christ. As Peter quoted this verse in his preaching in Acts 3:22-23 “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. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” It was “in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth” Peter asked the cripple man to “rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). Though the Old Testament prophets also spoke with authority but Jesus Christ is the final Prophet, the Prophet of all prophets. Thus Deuteronomy 18:15 is the messianic prophesy that is fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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