{"id":1331,"date":"2020-11-29T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2020-11-29T21:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T20:37:27","slug":"jesus-the-prophet-like-moses-deuteronomy-1815-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Jesus the Prophet like Moses  Deuteronomy 18:15-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<span itemprop=\"description\"><p>This message is on video on YouTube here<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jesus the prophet like Moses  Deuteronomy 18 15 to 19\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AVM8yji0P54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These are the words on the slides.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus \u2013 the prophet like Moses<\/p>\n<p>17 The LORD said to me: \u2018What they say is good. 18 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.<br \/>\n(Deuteronomy 18:17-18)<\/p>\n<p>Jewish expectations about the Messiah \u2013 God\u2019s end-time redeemer<\/p>\n<p>A Messiah like David (Isaiah 9:2-7) \u2013 the most popular expectation<\/p>\n<p>A figure like Elijah (from Ecclesiasticus)<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Servant (Isaiah 42:1-7)<\/p>\n<p>Melchizedek (Qumran community)<\/p>\n<p>A prophet like Moses<br \/>\n(The Eschatological Prophet)<\/p>\n<p>Deuteronomy 18:15-18<br \/>\n15 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. 16 For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, \u2018Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire any more, or we will die.\u2019<br \/>\n17 The LORD said to me: \u2018What they say is good. 18 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. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.<\/p>\n<p>Jews were expecting God to send<br \/>\n\u201ca Prophet\u201d<br \/>\nJohn 1:20 He (John the Baptist) did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, \u2018I am not the Messiah.\u2019<br \/>\n21 They asked him, \u2018Then who are you? Are you Elijah?\u2019 He said, \u2018I am not.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Are you the Prophet?\u2019 He answered, \u2018No.\u2019 \u2026..<br \/>\n24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent 25 questioned him, \u2018Why then do you baptise if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?\u2019<br \/>\n26 \u2018I baptise with water,\u2019 John replied, \u2018but among you stands one you do not know. 27 He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In what ways did Jesus fit the pattern of an Old Testament prophet?<br \/>\n\u2022\tProphetic words \u2013 messages demonstrating divine knowledge<br \/>\n\u2022\tWarnings of impending judgment<br \/>\n\u2022\tCalls for justice and righteousness<br \/>\n\u2022\tCalls to repentance<br \/>\n\u2022\tParables and especially allegories were in \u201cthe prophetic tradition\u201d<br \/>\ne.g. Parables of the Tenants in the Vineyard (Matthew 21:33ff) like Isaiah 5 parable of the vineyard.<br \/>\nJeremiah, the potter and the clay<br \/>\nNathan\u2019s parable to David of the little lamb.<br \/>\n\u2022\tMiracles revealing God\u2019s love and power c.f. Elijah and Elisha<br \/>\n\u2022\tRejected as all the prophets were<\/p>\n<p>How Jesus described himself<\/p>\n<p>Mark 6:4,  Jesus said to them, \u2018A prophet is not without honour except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Luke 13:33 \u201cIn any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day\u2014for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What other people said about Jesus<\/p>\n<p>John 4:19 \u2018Sir,\u2019 the woman said, \u2018I can see that you are a prophet.<\/p>\n<p>Luke 7:14  He said, \u2018Young man, I say to you, get up!\u2019 15 The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.<br \/>\n16 They were all filled with awe and praised God. \u2018A great prophet has appeared among us,\u2019 they said. \u2018God has come to help his people.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Luke 7:19 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, \u2018If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is\u2014that she is a sinner.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 16:13  When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, \u2018Who do people say the Son of Man is?\u2019<br \/>\n14 They replied, \u2018Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 21:10  When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, \u2018Who is this?\u2019<br \/>\n11 The crowds answered, \u2018This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 21:46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.<\/p>\n<p>Luke 22:63 The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. 64 They blindfolded him and demanded, \u2018Prophesy! Who hit you?<\/p>\n<p>The disciples on the road to Emmaeus<\/p>\n<p>Luke 24:19 \u2018About Jesus of Nazareth,\u2019 they replied. \u2018He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.<\/p>\n<p>The preaching of the Early Church<\/p>\n<p>Acts 3:21  Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. 22 For Moses said, \u201cThe Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. 23 Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the Jews were expecting the Messiah to be a great warrior king like David. But the Messiah God sent turned out to be more like \u201ca Prophet like Moses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  (John 1:10-11)<\/p>\n<p>SEE N.T.Wright<br \/>\nJesus and the Victory of God (1996)<\/p>\n<p>The promise also carries a warning<br \/>\n18 \u2026. I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.<br \/>\n(Deuteronomy 18:17-19)<\/p>\n<span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\"><span itemprop=\"description\">This message is on video on YouTube here These are the words on the slides. Jesus \u2013 the prophet like Moses 17 The LORD&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p btn-align-left\"><a class=\"blue zoom-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=1331\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}