Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Advent Day 17 - Jesus, A Prophet Like Moses

Prophecy:


Deuteronomy 18:17-18
And the LORD said to [Moses],"They are right in what they have spoken. 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. "

--Moses spoke God's word to the people of Israel.
Exodus 24:3 - Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, “We are willing to do  all the words that the Lord has said,”

--Moses administered the blood of the Covenant.
Exodus 24:8 - So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

--Moses interceded for God's people.

Exodus 32:30-32 -  The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the Lord – perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin.” So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written."

Exodus 33:11,13-15
Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
Moses said to the LORD . . . . If I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people." And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." And he said to him, "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.

Fulfillment:

--Jesus spoke God's word to the people of Israel.

 John 7:16 - "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me."

 John 8:28 - "When you have lifted up the son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me."

 John 12:49 - "For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment -- what to say and what to speak."

--Jesus administered the blood of the New Covenant.

Luke 22:19-20 - Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood."

--Jesus interceded for God's people.
John 17:9,11,15-17 - "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. . . . Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. . . . I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth." 


Hebrews 3:1-6
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be said in the future. But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. 

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