YAHSHUA WAS A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES (MUHAMMAD WAS NEVER) For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he wrote of me - John 5:46 Joh 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 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; 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_7:37 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. when Philip encountered Nathanael, he said, We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote - YaHshua minetzaret ben Yosef (Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph) (John 1:45). After YaHshua fed the five thousand, the people began to ask if this was the Prophet who is to come into the world (John 6:14). Peter identified YaHshua as the Prophet (Acts 3:22-23), and in his apologetic before the Sanhedrin, Stephen the martyr declared that YaHshua was the promised Messiah: This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, The lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear. (Acts 7:37-38). YaHshua is the Prophet Like Unto Moses In light of these passages of Scripture, here are thirty (30) ways in which YaHshua minetzeret ben Yosef indeed resembled Moses: 1. Just as there were 400 years of silence before Adonai sent Moses to deliver Israel from her bondage to Pharaoh, so there were 400 of years of silence before Adonai sent His own Son, YaHshua the Messiah, to utterly deliver Israel from her ultimate bondage to sin and death. 2. Both Moses and YaHshua were sent from God (Exod. 3:1-10; John 8:42). 3. Both Moses and YaHshua were Jews (Exod. 2:1-2; Matt. 1:1-16; Luke 1-2; Heb. 7:14). (Note: This is no small thing, since Muslims claim that Muhammad is the prophet Moses referred to here; which is obviously incorrect, since the Mashiach must be a Jew - see John 4:24). 4. Both had faithful Jewish parents (Exod. 2:2; Heb. 11:23; Matt. 2:13-14). 5. Both were born under foreign rule (Exod. 1:8-14; Luke 2:1). 6. Both were threatened by wicked kings (Exod. 1:15-16; Matt. 2:16). 7. Both Moses and YaHshua spent their early years in Egypt, miraculously protected from those who sought their lives (Exod. 2:10; Matt. 2:14-15). 8. Both rejected the possibility to become rulers in this age. Moses was raised as a son in the royal family and could have enjoyed a lavish lifestyle as a powerful ruler, but he chose differently (Heb. 11:24); Satan offered YaHshua the rule over the kingdoms of this world (Matt. 4:8-9), but rejected that offer and chose to suffer and die for the sake of the people of Israel. 9. Both Moses and YaHshua were sent from a mountain of God to free Israel. Moses was sent from (physical) Mount Sinai in Midian, Arabia; YaHshua was sent from a spiritual Mount Zion in Heaven (Heb. 12:22). 10. Both were initially rejected by the Jews (Exod. 32:1; Isa. 53: 3; Matt. 27:21-2; Rom. 11:25). 11. Both were accepted by Gentiles (Moses by the Midianites (Exod. 2:14-22); YaHshua by the world (Acts 10:45; 1 Tim. 3:16)). 12. Both were criticized by their families (Num. 12:1; Mark 3:20-21). 13. Both knew God panim lpanim (face to face). God spoke directly to both Moses and YaHshua (Exod. 3:1-10; Deut. 34:10; Luke 9:34-36). All other prophets received their revelation by visions or dreams (Deut. 34:10; John 1:18). Both were authoritative spokesmen for God (Matt. 17:5; John 3:34). 14. Both were teachers (Deut. 4:1-5; Matt. 22:16; John 3:2). 15. Both revealed Gods Name (Exod. 3:13-14; John 17:6, 11-12). 16. Both were faithful to God (Num. 12:5-7; Heb. 3:1-2). 17. Both gave the people bread from Heaven (Exod. 16:14-15; Matt. 14:19-20) and performed various miracles (Exod. 4:21-8; Deut. 34:10-12; John 5:36; 12:37-8). 18. Both were appointed as saviors of Israel (Moses as Israels deliverer from the bondage to Pharaoh; YaHshua as Israels deliverer from the bondage to Satan). 19. Both were shepherds of Israel (Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness (Exod. 3:1; Numbers), YaHshua led His followers as the Good Shepherd (John 10:10-11; Matt. 9:36)). 20. Both were humble servants of the LORD (Num. 12:3; Luke 2:46-7; Phil. 2:8-9). 21. Both fasted for forty days in the wilderness (Exod. 34:28; Matt. 4:2). 22. Both were Mediators of a covenant of blood: Moses of the older covenant (Exod. 24:7-8) and YaHshua of the new covenant (Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; Heb. 9:11-15; 1 Cor. 11:25; 2 Cor. 3:6). 23. Both offered to die on behalf of the peoples sins (Exod. 32:30-33; John 17). 24. Just as Moses instituted the LORDs Passover on Nisan 14 as the means by which the Angel of death would pass over those Israelites who trusted in Gods promise regarding the blood of the lamb (Exod. 12:11-12), so YaHshua offered Himself as the sacrificial Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). 25. Just as Moses brought about the resurrection of the children of Israel as they passed through the Red Sea; so YaHshua became the Firstfruits of resurrection as He rose from the dead. 26. Just as the Torah was given to Israel fifty days after the Exodus from Egypt (on Pentecost or Shavuot), so YaHshua sent the Holy Spirit to form the Church fifty days after His resurrection. 27. Both of their faces shone with the glory of heaven - Moses on Mount Sinai (Exod. 34:34-5) and YaHshua on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:2). 28. As Moses lifted up the brazen serpent in the wilderness to heal his people (Num. 21:8-9); so YaHshua was lifted up on the cross to heal all believers from their sin (John 12:32). 29. As Moses conquered the great enemy of Israel, the Amalekites with his upraised arms (Exod. 17:11), so YaHshua conquered our ultimate enemy of sin and death by His upraised arms on the cross (John 19:18). 30. As Moses sent twelve spies to explore Canaan (Num. 13), so YaHshua sent twelve apostles to reach the world (Matt. 10:1); and as Moses appointed seventy rulers over Israel (Num. 11:16-7), so YaHshua anointed seventy disciples to teach the nations (Luke 10:1). How, then, was YaHshua a Prophet like Moses? Well, like Moses, he was a Jew, a Leader, a Prophet, a Lawgiver, a Savior, a Teacher, a Priest, a Healer, an Anointed One, a Mediator between God and man -- speaking the words of God -- and like Moses, He offered himself to die for the sins of the people.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:00:16 +0000
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