Deut 18:18

[Jerrysch]

DEUTERONOMY 18:18
To whom is Moses refering to in Deut. 18:18, and why do you support this position?

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.

 

[johnd]

Moses was the founding prophet of the Old Covenant. Jesus is the founding prophet of the New.

 

[talitha]

wow, that is a complex question, actually...... I'm sure I won't do it justice, but I would like to comment anyway.....

The immediate fulfillment of this prophecy was Joshua. He led the people as Moses had, and he was for all intents and purposes God's spokesperson. He had learned from Moses's conversations with God in the Tent of Meeting, and he had served Moses and believed God when he was a spy sent in to the Promised Land. A series of great prophets were given to the people of Israel over the years, notably Elijah, Elisha, Samuel, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, among (of course) others.

I believe this parable to be related: from Luke 20: ... "A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. 10 "At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 "And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed. 12 "And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out. 13 "The owner of the vineyard said, `What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' 14 "But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, `This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.' 15 "So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 "He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!" 17 But Jesus looked at them and said, "What then is this that is written: `THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone'?

Jesus is the ULTIMATE fulfillment of Deuteronomy 18, as He is the ultimate fulfillment of the entire old covenant.

Interesting: in Deuteronomy 18:16 it says: "This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, `Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.'" and then in 1 Timothy 2:5 it says that "there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." so Jesus becomes once and for all THE mediator, THE prophet, THE intercessor....

....and we can all enter into this ministry of Christ Jesus -- see Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 -- not to supercede Him of course, nor to replace Him (God forbid!) but because He deigns to allow us to participate! PTL!

blessings
tal

 

[TrevorL]

Howdy Jerrysch,

Greetings. One method is to let the NT interpret the OT by looking for direct quotations or allusions.

Deuteronomy 18:18-19 (KJV): "18 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. 19 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."

Jesus applies the terms of Deuteronomy 18:18,19 to his preaching as a prophet to his contemporaries:
John 12:48-49 (KJV): "48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak."

Peter also applies Deuteronomy 18:18,19 to Jesus.
Acts 3:22-24 (KJV): "22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days."

Kind regards
Trevor

 

[HomeBound]

Acts 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Acts 3:22-24 (KJV): "22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days."

Just to add the key verses from Acts