In approximately
1000BC, Moses indicated that there would be a prophet in the future that would
be sent by God who would be like Moses. Below is a comparison of the saying of
Moses and Jesus that demonstrate that their messages parallel each other. Jesus
is the only person in three thousand years who fulfilled that prophecy. There
is another group that encompasses the planet that falsely claims that their
leader was like Moses. Their leader engaged in adultery, theft, and murder and
taught people to oppress and kill their neighbor. That group is currently
engaged in warfare in over twenty nations around the globe and falsely claims
that their leader was somehow like Moses. Look at the sayings below and decide
whether the sayings of Moses and Jesus parallel each other and that Jesus
fulfilled the prophecy of the prophet promised by Moses. Jesus and Moses who
were sent by God both taught people to love their neighbors as themselves and
anyone preaching something else was not sent by God.
J. Clontz – Editor
of the Comprehensive New Testament
Matthew
4:4 ‘Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God.’” See also Luke
4:4. Deuteronomy 8:3 “And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and
fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he
might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word
that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”
Matthew 4:7 ‘You shall not
tempt the Lord your God.’” See
also Luke 4:12. Deuteronomy 6:16 “You shall not tempt the LORD your God…”
Matthew 4:10 ‘You shall worship
the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ See also Luke 4:8. Deuteronomy 6:13 “You
shall fear the LORD thy God, and serve him...”
Matthew 5:42 “Give to him who
asks you, and do not refuse him who wants to borrow from you.” Deuteronomy 15:7 “If there be among you a
poor man of one of your brethren within any of thy gates in your land which the
LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand
from your poor brother.”
John 5:37 “And
the Father who sent me; he has testified of me. You have never heard his voice,
nor seen his form.” Deuteronomy 4:12 “And the LORD spoke to you out of
the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw form; only you
heard a voice.”
Matthew 10:37 “He who loves
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And he who loves son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” See also Luke 14:26. Deuteronomy 33:9“Who said unto his
father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his
brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept
thy covenant.”
Matthew 12:41 “The
men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it.
For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than
Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this
generation and condemn it. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.” See
also Luke 11:31-32. Deuteronomy 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men
of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your
fathers.
Matthew 18:16 “But
if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every
matter may be established by the word of two or three witnesses.”
Deuteronomy 19:15 “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any
iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established.”
Matthew 19:18 …And
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall
not steal. You shall not bear false witness. 19 Honor father and mother. And,
you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” See also Mark 10:19 and Luke
18:20. Deuteronomy 5:17 You shall not kill.18 Neither shall you commit
adultery.19 Neither shalt you steal.20 Neither shall you bear false witness
against your neighbour.21 Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife,
neither shall you covet your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or
his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor's.”
Mark 12:29 Jesus
answered, “The first is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 30
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ See also Matthew
22:37 and Luke 10:27. Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And you shall love the LORD your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Luke 13:34 “O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to
you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers
her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!” Deuteronomy 32:11 “As
an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her
wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.”
Luke 14:13 “But
when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, 14 and
you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at
the resurrection of the just.” Deuteronomy 14:29 “And the Levite,
(because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come, and shall
eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of
your hand which you do.”
Matthew 24:31 “And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
See also Mark 13:27. Deuteronomy 30:4 “If any of you be driven out unto the
outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and
from thence will he fetch you.”
Luke 21:22 “For
these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.” Deuteronomy
32:35 “To me belongs vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in
due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall
come upon them make haste.”
Matthew 26:11 “For you always
have the poor with you….” See
also Mark 14:7 and John 12:8. Deuteronomy 15:11 “For the poor shall never
cease out of the land…”
John 21:22-23 If I
want him to remain until I come…” Deuteronomy 33:6 “Let Reuben live, and
not die; and let not his men be few.”
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