Moses – not Jesus Christ – is God’s primary messenger to humanity.
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, God names His own policies and procedures “the law of Moses.”
- “I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say…
- THOU shalt speak unto him [Aaron]…he shall be thy spokesman unto the people
- THOU shalt be to him instead of God.” (Exodus 4:10-16)
After YHVH identified himself and his Redeemer so strongly with Moses, it is not blasphemy to equate the one who “sent” YHVH’s Savior as Moses, as well as YHVH.
“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.” (John 5:24)
“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… Remember ye the law of Moses my servant.” (Malachi 4, last chapter before Matthew 1)
What Moses taught in word and deed in the Old Testament is fundamental to understanding YHVH’s Savior in the New Testament.
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me / Moses; unto him ye shall hearken”;” (Deuteronomy 18:15)
“And Moses said to the LORD…
- shew me now thy way,
- that I may know [intimately, be united with] thee .
We aren’t identified with, united with, one with YHVH unless we actively participate in HIS WAY.
- 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: For thou shalt worship no other god:” (Exodus 33)
And his “way” of redemption did not change with the birth of YHVH’s Savior.
If we take at face value the word of God, we should be paying close attention to Moses’ redemptive work. Instead of blithely singing “Jesus paid it all”, we realize that we become partners in redemption as we fulfill God’s mandate to take dominion over the earth.
“Choose you this day whom ye will serve…
- the gods promising to show you how you can do whatever you want
- or the LORD / YHVH / I Am / Singularity / Creator. (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.
“I 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. 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)
- “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)
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.
- 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)
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)
Moses laid down the law 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)
Jesus Christ repeated the same instructions.
“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)
Jesus the Christ:
“when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints” (II Thessalonians 1:7-10)
“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)
“And another angel came out of he temple which is in heaven…and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And…blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.” (Revelation 14:14-20)
Kingdom Come 