Moses “the man / ish / identical one of God” had as much an exclusive relationship with God as Adam, made in the image and likeness of God. Consistent with God’s identification of himself with, by transfer of authority to, Adam and his Melchizedekian successors.
Being one with the Father and his sons means losing one’s sense of self-worth, judgment, and value in order to merge your identity with a merciful God, whose greatest defining likeness is merciful – through sacrificial – love.
- “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life…
- For as the Father hath [infinite] life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;”
- And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the [promised] Son of (hu)man / Seed of the Woman…
- For as the Father hath [infinite] life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;”
- I can of mine own self do nothing…I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness [by itself] is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me...
- ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth…
- the works which the Father hath given me to finish…bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. (Just like he sent their founder Moses, proven by the miracles – but mainly the plagues – heads up)
- And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me…Search the scriptures…they are they which testify of me....
- Moses…wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” (John 5)
God names His own policies and procedures “the law of Moses.”
“Remember ye the law of Moses my servant…For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts…
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” (Malachi 4, last chapter before Matthew 1)
What Moses taught in word and deed in the Old Testament is absolutely fundamental to understanding YHVH’s Savior in the New Testament.
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee / Moses, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.” (Deuteronomy 18:15-19)
Jesus Christ validated all his claims, including the impact of his death and resurrection, through Moses’ writings.
“Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people…the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel…Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken…And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:15-27)
Jesus Christ repeated the same instructions that Moses laid down on how to avoid righteous God’s judgment on sin.
“I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live.” (Deuteronomy 30:11-16)
“a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live…Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till ALL be fulfilled.” (Luke 10:25-28)
Moses is the role model of a Savior willing to sacrificing his life for undeserving sinners and making intercession – speaking up on our behalf – to the judge.
“And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin…Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin–[leaving unspoken the unthinkable action of a just God]; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.” (Exodus 32:31-32)
But only Jesus’ uniquely sinless death could fulfill the sacrifice required for redeeming sinful humanity.
“if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Yeshua’s Promised Savior / Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation [appeasement] for…the sins of the whole world…who also [like Moses] maketh intercession for us. (I John 2:1-2, Romans 8:33-34)
Moses was the first to survive the Glory of the LORD.
“there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly…And the LORD came down…and the LORD called Moses up…and Moses went up.” (Exodus 19:16-20)
Then secondly, Jesus the Christ:
“Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him…a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; [Stop making your own plans and] hear ye him.” (Matthew 17:1-5)
And Finally
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven…the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Matthew 24:29-31)
Moses defined who are Gods elect / chosen / Christ-like ones.
“And Moses said to the LORD…
- shew me now thy way,
- that I may know [intimately, be united with] thee.
- I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:” (Exodus 33)
The LORD can’t make it any clearer that if we are to be identified with, united with, one with YHVH. we become partners in redemption.
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve…
- the gods promising to show you how you can do whatever you want through a transactional relationship with them
- OR the LORD /BOSS. (Joshua 24:15)
The difference is huge. As in spoiled rich kids indulging themselves in a wealthy church environment vs laborers in a refugee camp exactly like Moses.
“Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people… and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies [sin and death] might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.” (Luke 1:67-77)
With this background information, we can best understand the open hostility in the exchanges between Jesus and the self-appointed humanist Supreme Court adding to and subtracting from God’s laws.
“Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat [i.e. in MY seat!]…
- they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers…
- all their works they do for to be seen of men…And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi / legal scholar.
- But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ [that’s ME, folks!]…
- Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ / ME!…
- But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in…
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation…
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves…
- Woe unto you, ye fools and blind guides…
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone…
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess…
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous…ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
- Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?…(Matthew 23)
“I [Jesus the Christ] have given unto them [the twelve disciples] the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them…As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world…them also which shall believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:” (John 17:8-21)
Kingdom Come 