Who Is the Prophet Like Moses?
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 20/07/2015

Who Is the Prophet Like Moses?
An interpretation of the Holy Bible

In the 15th century B.C.E., the Hebrew Prophet Moses proved, in several ways, that he was a real prophet:
● Yahweh the LORD gave to Moses authority to perform miracles, such as providing water in a wilderness and bread that came down from heaven.
● While Moses was alive, Yahweh would speak with him, as one man speaks with another.
● Moses wrote the divinely-revealed, five books called the Holy Torah or Pentateuch.

Yahweh once spoke to the prophet Moses regarding Israel:
“I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.”
Yet for fourteen hundred years, no such prophet appeared.
● Has that prophet come? 
● If so, who is he? 
● How can we know?
Torah, Deuteronomy 18:18

In the first century C.E., when a Hebrew baptizer, the Prophet John came, he confessed to the Jews:
“I am not the Christ.” They asked him, “What then? … Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
Gospel of John 1:20-21

The prophet John said of Jesus, “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” 
When John baptized Jesus, “he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.’”
Matthew 3:11


Some of Jesus’ followers once saw him “transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them (the Hebrew prophets) Moses and Elijah, talking with him.” 
After some minutes, “behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my beloved Son… Listen to him.’ … When they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.”
Gospel of Matthew 17:1-8

Jesus said of the Hebrew prophet John, “The testimony that I have is greater than that of John. ... The very works that I am doing bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
Jesus said of the Hebrew prophet Moses, “Moses, on whom you have set your hope … wrote of me.”
Gospel of John 5:36, 45-47

After multiplying bread for a crowd, Jesus said of himself, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. … This is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
Gospel of John 6:35, 40

After Jesus ascended into heaven, his apostle Peter cited Deuteronomy 18:18 when he proclaimed:
“Repent … that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus.”
“Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.’ … 
“God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
Acts 3:19–26

Thus, the New Testament Scriptures affirm that:
● The “prophet like Moses” has come. 
● He is Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God.
Listen to him!
Neither the ancient prophets nor Jesus the Messiah ever announced another prophet in whom we should believe.
● Repent of your unbelief! 
● Put your faith in Jesus! 
● Obey his commandments!