"A Prophet Like Unto Moses"

by James Jacob Prasch

The Scriptural similarities which point to Moses as a type of the Messiah to come.

  1. Introduction
  2. False Prophets
  3. A Prophet Like Moses
  4. Born Under an Oppressive Foreign Rule
  5. Threatened by a Wicked King
  6. The Faith of the Parents
  7. Protected in Egypt
  8. His Wisdom Not Surpassed
  9. Rejected by the Jews
  10. Accepted by the Gentiles
  11. Criticized by His Family
  12. Willing to Bear Their Sin
  13. Fasted Forty Days and Nights
  14. Face to Face with God
  15. His Face Shone
  16. A Voice was Heard
  17. Tomb Guarded by an Angel
  18. Revealed God's Name
  19. Fed the People
  20. Showed Signs and Wonders
  21. Made a Covenant with Blood
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False Prophets

It does not matter if people predict something in the Name of the Lord because they are inspired by a demon, or if they do it by the futility of their own mind. Either way, a false prophet is a false prophet.

And you may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the Name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing, which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. (Dt.18:21-22)

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am about to remove you from the face of the earth…’” (Jer. 28:15-16)

Hananiah predicted things that did not happen.

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in my Name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.” (Jer. 14:14)

These false prophets were deceived by what was in their own mind.

There were a lot of false prophets running around in Jeremiah's day, but even after their prophecies were proven to be false, people continued to follow them:

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule on their own authority; and my people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it? (Jer.5:31)

It does not say they are not His people, nor that they are not prophets, but He does say that they prophesy falsely and the people love it so.

Now, when Jesus warned about false prophets in the Last Days, many people think He was talking about the Jehovah Witnesses, the Mormons, the Hare Krishnas, etc. There is no doubt in my mind that the proliferation of these cults is of some prophetic significance, and they are certainly false prophets. But those are not the false prophets Jesus was warning about. He said:

For false christs and false prophets will be raised, and they will give signs and wonders in order to lead astray, if possible even the elect. (Mk.13:22)

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