MOSES AND CHRIST ARE PARALLEL

 

Moses the Greatest Prophet               Part One      the Early Years                Sept. 4, 2015

MOSES AND CHRIST ARE PARALLEL

God considered Moses as being so special that He sent His own Son as another Moses.  See Deut 18:15.  Peter, in the first New Testament sermon at Pentecost, told the people of Israel that Jesus came in the same mode as Moses.  He told them that Moses prophesied about Jesus as one like Moses.  See Acts 3:22-23.  Moses said a prophet like me will come that you must follow referring to Jesus.

The birth of both Moses and Jesus are parallel in that the Devil tried to kill them both as infants.   Secondly, Moses and Jesus were both saved in Egypt.  Pharaoh fearing a deliverer and the growing population of Israelites, had all infant boys murdered from birth thru age 2.  Moses’ parents like Joseph and Mary, put the baby Moses in a water proof basket to float on the Nile.  Praying that God would have the baby saved.  God rewarded their faith by having Pharaohs’ daughter rescue Moses.  Then they were paid to raise their own son to the point where Pharaoh’s Daughter took over.   See Exodus 2:4-10.

The angel instructed Joseph to take baby Jesus and Mary to Egypt for baby Jesus’ safety.

God made the Egyptians perceive Moses as a god.   See Exodus 7:1-2.  Jesus was really God, of course.   Moses was a law giver as the physical scribe and administrator of the law for the physical nation of Israel.  Jesus is the spiritual law giver who clarified and expanded the law in its pure spiritual depth.   See Matt 5.

The plan of salvation began with the historic example led by God and Moses.  Moses presided over the first Passover where the blood of a physical lamb saved Israel.  Spiritual Israel the Church of God is being saved by the blood of the spiritual Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.  Thereby Moses helped craft the physical model which Jesus spiritually fulfilled.  See Hebrews 3:1-6.  Christ as the Son of God clearly is far greater than Moses. Yet Moses is compared and contrasted with Jesus in these deep scriptures.  The Passover is the most vital and sacred period for all Christianity.  It is the only ceremony one must make up if missed. Numbers 9:11

MOSES GAVE UP BEING A MIGHTY PRINCE IN EGYPT TO SAVE ISRAEL

Moses again had a physical parallel similar to what Christ is doing for spiritual Israel.  Moses had to leave the kingdom of Pharaoh and all its luxury and power to lead Israel.  Jesus gave up temporarily, the Kingdom of God in heaven to come and save mankind.  See Heb 11: 24-29.  Moses at the age of 40 tried to rescue Israel prematurely on his own.  Then later, at age 80 he was commissioned by God.  Moses killed a guard in Egypt using probably hand to hand combat or a sword.  He was, as secular history says, a mighty general for Pharaoh.  He was at this point strong rich and confident.  See Exodus 2:11-12, 16-18.

MOSES LIKE MOST PROPHETS IS RELUCTANT TO TAKE THE COMMISSION

Most prophets in the Bible are reluctant when first called.  They often say things such as I am unworthy or I am too young or just a not a priest but a working man to avoid the calling.  However often you will meet people who claim that God has called them to be prophets and they are clearly unbalanced mentally.  Moses gives God quite a bit of resistance to the calling on the mountain.  See Exodus 3:11, 4:1-2, 10-14.  Moses is assured that the warrant for his arrest is no longer valid yet he is still reluctant.  He believes he is not a good enough speaker regarding both the language of the Hebrews and any longer, the Egyptian language.   God gives him Aaron as his executive and spokesperson.  He then reluctantly accepts this dangerous mission.

 

 

 

 

 

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