Deuteronomy 18:14-22
Moses Writes about a Prophet to Come
14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so.15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17 The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18 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. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name. 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
Jeremiah 23:1-8
The Righteous Branch
1 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the Lord. 3 “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.
5 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,
a King who will reign wisely
and do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he will be called:
The Lord Our Righteous Savior.
7 “So then, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ 8 but they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”
John 1:44-45
The Disciples Found the One Moses Wrote About
44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
John 5:45-46
Moses Wrote About Jesus
45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”
Isaiah 55:8
God's Thoughts are Not My Thoughts
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
It was written in the Old Testament about One who was to come...Moses wrote about a Prophet that would come to Israel, and lead Israel...This Prophet would be from God...God would put His words into this Prophet's mouth, and He would tell them everything that God would command Him...Also, the Prophet Jeremiah also wrote about a Messiah who was to come to Israel...A Righteous Branch from the lineage of David, who would be a King and would reign wisely..His name will be the LORD Our Righteous Savior...
The people were expecting a Messiah and Moses did write about a Prophet who was to come...We are told that the Disciple Philip told Nathaniel, they had found the One who Moses wrote about...And Jesus tells us that Moses did, in fact, write about Him...The people were expecting Someone that Moses, as well as the prophets, had written about...
But people's expectations many times are not God's expectations...What were the people expecting a Messiah to do and be?...As you read the Old Testament, we do not get much on what our Messiah will do...The people were guided by their own personal thoughts of their Messiah and what He would do and what He would be like...I think God caught people off guard with who He would send, and how He was send...
So there was this expectation by the people of Israel to one day see the Messiah that God would send...And God sent a Messiah...One who would speak the very words of God on the earth and in Israel...God knew who He would send and who He wanted on earth and what He wanted Him to be like...God sent us a Messiah in those areas of mankind where we needed Him most...This Man might not be what we expected...He would be exactly like the Man, He would send...A Man named Jesus...