"The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear… I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19

We don’t really have to defend the notion that Jesus is the subject of the NT, but we are considering Jesus’ claim that He is the subject of the Old Testament. We have considered Jesus before creation, in Creation, in the Fall, and in the Flood. We have considered Jesus and the Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Let’s begin in this post considering Jesus and Moses.

First, Moses the Man: Moses is not the first man of the Jewish race, but he is arguably the most important man in the history of the Jewish religion. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. God used Moses to lead His people, Israel (as many as 2.5 million of them!), out of a 400-year bondage in Egypt. He led them (again, as many as 2.5 million of them!) in the wilderness for 40 years, during which they received the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Law—the law that governed all Jewish life for the next several thousand years. But what has that to do with Jesus?

Moses and the Greater Prophet. In Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19, God promised Moses and the people that He was going to raise up another Prophet, similar to Moses, but even greater than Moses—and Moses was a hard act to follow!

God told Moses and the people that they were to listen to the words of the promised Prophet to come, and that if they didn’t (v.19) God would require it of them—JUDGMENT. Who is that Prophet? That Prophet is none other than JESUS.

John 6:14 records, “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.” The people who saw Jesus knew it!

In Acts 3:20, Stephen, speaking of Jesus said: “that He [God] may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before…” Then Stephen quoted Deuteronomy 18 (in Acts 3:22) saying, “For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘the Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me [Moses] from your brethren. Him [the Prophet] you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.’”

Jesus was and is the promised Prophet who is like Moses, but so much greater!