Reading:
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken; According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God
in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I die not. And the LORD said unto me, They have well
spoken
that
which they have spoken. 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. 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. But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou
say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath
not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the
thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is
the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but
the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid
of him.
Commentary:
The future Prophet which Moses here refers to is none other
than Christ, who here is called "a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren". Jesus was a Jew by race, a descendant
of Abraham, "unto Him ye shall hearken." As both God and
man in one person, Christ would speak all the words of God the
Father, and "whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He
shall speak in My name, I will require it of him." This agrees
perfectly with the words of Jesus in John 12, "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. 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. And I know
that His commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak
therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." No man
on earth then should ever dare to teach anything contrary to the
sacred Scriptures, for God will require payment for this
transgression. Nor should we listen to or follow any prophet whose
word contradicts God's Word. "The prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."
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