A Prophet Like Moses (Lent 29, 2025)

Jesus stepped into a Jewish world full of expectations about who He should be and then displayed how He fulfilled everything.  He was the prophet like Moses,

“And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.” (Luke 24:27)

Why did He begin with Moses?  Because that’s where the prophets began to give words about the Messiah that became expectations:

Moses said, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.” The LORD said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.”   (Deuteronomy 18:15-18)

Principle: A prophet “like Moses” who would speak to the people for God as a mediator … is the Messiah.

Questions for further thought:

The people feared God’s wrath and wanted a mediator.  How did Jesus speak for God but in a non-scary way?  How did the Son of God, Son of Man (adding humanity to His divinity) accomplish that? 

How was Peter a beneficiary of the teachings the two men on the Road to Emmaus received, correcting the record about the necessity of the Messiah’s suffering?
See Acts 3:17-26 in which Peter preached: Acts 3:17 “Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. 18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.” 

What does it mean in verse “21 Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.”? 

How are we today, heirs of the promise?  

Likewise Stephen repeated it: “This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’  38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us. 39 “But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. (Acts 7:37-39).

Finally, the author of Hebrews (which had yet to be written in the days of the two men on the Road to Emmaus) acknowledges it in Hebrews 3:1-19.  “1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.  5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.  6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house.” 

Reading the full Hebrews passage, one can see how Jesus might have displayed His presence throughout the Scriptures.  Identify all the ways in which Jesus fulfilled this truth.

Prayer: Thank you, Lord Jesus, for speaking God’s Word, His Truth into our lives. You are indeed worthy of honor and glory and worship for Your faithfulness all the way to the Cross. We love You, Lord. Amen.

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Lent began Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and will continue until Resurrection Sunday, Easter (April 20, 2025). I hope you’ll join me and be prepared to have your eyes opened. I know mine have been in writing this series, “The Way it Had to Be.”

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