Messiah Prophecy Deuteronomy 18 part 3

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;"

v19 "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."

Here is a prophecy of the coming of Jesus. It is not the first one but perhaps the plainest. Abraham received a prophecy of Jesus coming. We call it the promise of Abraham.

We can find these promises repeated in Acts.

Peter was preaching:

Acts 3:22 "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever be shall say unto you. v24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after as many as have spoken have like wise foretold of these days. v25...And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed (to Abraham)."

So, the prophecy of Jesus coming is not isolated or hard to understand. It is all through the scripture. Psalm 22 gives a vivid description of his sufferings.

We can see in Jesus prayer to the Father the reflection of this passage.

John 17:8 "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me."

From our chapter v19 "...my words which he shall speak in my name, ..."

Jesus was like Moses in that the children of Israel did not want to hear the Lord speak directly because they were afraid of the burning fire of the mount. They asked Moses to hear the Lord then tell them what he said. Jesus came and told Israel the words of God not as a burning fire but as one of them.

Psalms 52:1 "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually."