Let’s talk about Moses……just think about it. He wrote the first 5 books of the Bible giving details that happened 2;500 years prior to his birth……just amazing considering his nomadic life…….carefully revealing specific conversations of the ancients. By contrast the era that the New Testament covers is minuscule in comparison. We have unending debates about the New Testament but little about the Old Testament……think about this. It really seems like too much information produces less understanding, agreement or consensus. Realizing this I must suspect that looking within ourselves is perhaps where the ultimate answer lies…..and that this looking within means activating the Spirit. We demonstrate every day that denominations are not the answer and that Scripture is subject to interpretation……and literal understanding bears little fruit…..
Moses, speaking of a coming one like unto him is very interesting:
(Deu 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;
(Deu 18:16) According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
(Deu 18:17) And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
(Deu 18:18) 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.
(Deu 18:19) 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.
The miracle of the five barley loaves and two small fish is where the people saw that Jesus is this coming prophet:
(Joh 6:14) Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
Then the words of Jesus confirms it:
(Joh 7:16) Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
(Joh 8:28) Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
(Joh 12:49) For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
(Joh 12:50) And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
(Joh 14:24) He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Peter on the Day of Pentecost:
(Act 3:22) 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.
(Act 3:23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Truly Jesus is the prophet like unto Moses, miraculously conceived in the womb of Mary, born a man like unto us, as prophesied, who came being sent by God, for God gave him command what to speak, confirmed by Jesus himself and the apostles. This Prophet is the Christ, the Son of the living God.