The Nugget:
Deuteronomy 18:15 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;
My Comment:
Some Muslims deny that Jesus is like Moses. They deny that Jesus is “that prophet, like unto thee” that God promised Moses should come.
Instead, Muslims claim that Jesus is unlike Moses in various aspects, including His miraculous birth, His death and resurrection, and so forth.
Rather, some Muslims seek to establish that there are predictions in the Old Testament and the New Testament that a prophet should arise who is greater than Jesus Christ, and that Prophet, whom they claim is the promised Comforter, is Muhammed.
My Response to the Muslim Claim that Jesus is not like Moses:
To say that Jesus is not like Moses is contrary to what the Bible itself teaches.
(1) Christ was like Moses as a Prophet.
10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
(2) Christ was like Moses as a Mediator.
5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
(3) Christ was like Moses in Excellency.
Moses excelled all the prophets in speaking to God mouth to mouth (Numbers 12:6-8); Christ excelled Moses and all men in that being in the bosom of the Father, He has come down from heaven and declared God to us (John 1:18; John 3:13).
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
(4) Christ was like to Moses in Faithfulness.
Christ excelled Moses in faithfulness, for Moses was faithful in God’s house as a servant, but Christ as the son over his own house.
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
(5) Christ was like to Moses in signs and wonders, wherein he also excelled Moses.
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Act 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
(6) As Moses was king among his people, Christ in this respect is like Moses, but infinitely greater, for Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
(7) Christ was like Moses as a legislator. Moses gave Israel the Law of God. Christ gave a new law, the Gospel, and a new commandment, the Law of Love. Furthermore, God never commissioned any human beings to give laws to mankind but Moses and Christ; and therefore, as a lawgiver, Christ alone resembles Moses, for none but themselves have given laws in the name of God, which He has ratified and confirmed by the most certain and infallible signs, proofs, and miracles.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.