Week 28/2024
A word fitly spoken is like APPLES OF GOLD in a setting of silver [Proverbs 25v11]
We continue our series of Christ in every book of the Old Testament and today we see how in the Book of Deuteronomy chapter 18v18, Moses is told by God that the promised Messiah will be a special and unique prophet: “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name”.
Nobody fulfilled this promise not even Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah or John the Baptist who when asked: “Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No” (John 1v21). The only prophet who met these requirements was Jesus Christ as recorded in John 6v14: “After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, ‘Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world”. The Lord authenticated that He was the Prophet referred to in Deuteronomy by the signs He performed and prophecies concerning His death and resurrection. He even prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70. This gives us confidence in His other prophecies such as John chapter 14v1: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am”.
Friends because Jesus Christ the great prophet has always fulfilled His prophecies, we can be confident that our eternal future is assured in heaven. There is just one condition – we have to believe in Jesus Christ and put our trust in His saving work on the cross, as we read in Romans 10v9: “if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved”.
Amen
Graeme Greenwood