Moses was the first and greatest of the prophets, but God promised that someday in the future (14 centuries later), He would introduce to them another Prophet. A Prophet who would have the same access to God as Moses. Moses said He would be “a Prophet like me” who meets with God face-to-face, a Jew “from among their brethren.” This Prophet would be careful to speak only what God had given Him to say, acting as a mediator (a go-between). He would be an advocate (on behalf of man to God) and an intercessor (between sinful man and holy God). He would be a spokesman for the eternal God.<\/p>\n
Of course, looking at this from a New Testament perspective, we clearly see that Jesus is the Prophet foretold of way back in Deuteronomy. The Apostle John tells us that very thing in John 6:14: “Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, ‘This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.’\u201d Acts 7:37 also agrees: “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.'” Notice the authority this Prophet holds. Anyone who did not listen to and obey this Prophet would answer to God.<\/p>\n
As believers we have heard Him in the sense that we have heard and obeyed the good news. And as Acts 7:37 says, we still have the daily responsibility and privilege of listening to Jesus. We hear His voice in the Word, and He speaks back to us in prayer. Of course His voice is a “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12) and is easily drowned out by the “tyranny of the urgent” as author Charles E. Hummel calls the many daily things of life that must be done. Jesus does not shout over the noise of the business and distractions that try to crowd out His voice. We must take time daily to sit at His feet, and listen for what He would speak to us.<\/p>\n
“LORD, today we give You our undivided attention and ask that You would break through the roar with Your quiet voice. We desire to follow Your way. Speak to our hearts we ask in Jesus’ name.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deuteronomy 18 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0The priests the Levites,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0made by fire, and his inheritance.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the\u00a0LORD\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3<\/sup> And this shall be the priest\u2019s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether\u00a0it be\u00a0<\/em>ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0The firstfruit\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0For the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the\u00a0LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6<\/sup>\u00a0And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0shall choose;\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Then he shall minister in the name of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0his God, as all his brethren the Levites\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>, which stand there before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.\u00a0 9<\/sup>\u00a0When thou art come into the land which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0There shall not be found among you\u00a0any one\u00a0<\/em>that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>that useth divination,\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0For all that do these things\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>an abomination unto the\u00a0LORD: and because of these abominations the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God doth drive them out from before thee.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt be perfect with the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God.\u00a0\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God hath not suffered thee so\u00a0to do\u00a0<\/em>.\u00a0 15<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0According to all that thou desiredst of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORDsaid unto me, They have well\u00a0spoken that\u00a0<\/em>which they have spoken.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And it shall come to pass,\u00a0that<\/em>whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require\u00a0it<\/em>of him.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath not spoken?\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0When a prophet speaketh in the name of the\u00a0LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the thing which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath not spoken,\u00a0but\u00a0<\/em>the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moses was the first and greatest of the prophets, but God promised that someday in the future (14 centuries later), He would introduce to them another Prophet. 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