Moses said that after his ministry was over, God would raise up (or appoint) another prophet. As it is written:
“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 whosoever will not hearken unto my words,
which he shall speak in my Name, I will require it of him” (Deuteronomy 18:18-19).
Notice that the promise was that the prophet would be “like Moses”. This means that that prophet would do
the same things (and have the same attributes) as Moses did. What were such things and attributes? Well,
they were the following:
(1) Moses wrote laws and statutes for all Israel with his own fingers (Deut. 31:24)
(2) Like everyone who is completely human, Moses had
two biological parents
(3) Moses publicly divided the waters (Exodus 14:21)
(4) Moses defeated Israel’s physical enemies. In other words, Pharaoh and his army (Exodus 15:1)
(5) God granted Moses the power to designate the place that each tribe would occupy during their march
towards Canaan (Numbers 2:1-34)
(6) God immediately punished [with capital punishment] any Israelite who had the audacity to publicly
disobey Moses (Numbers 16:32-35)
(7) Moses [correctly] prophesied that if an Israelite ever tried to override Moses' orders, he would do so at
the cost of his children's lives (Leviticus 26:29, & 2 Kings 6: 24-29)
(8) All Israel believed and/or feared Moses (Exodus 14:31)
(9)
During his earthly ministry, Moses allowed non Israelite people to enter into the Israelite assembly
(Exodus 12:38).
Reformed Samaritanism teaches that the prophet who was to come after Moses was none other than Joshua,
the son of Nun. Why? Did Joshua have the same works and attributes as Moses? Of course he did!:
(1) Joshua wrote laws and statutes for all Israel with his own fingers (Joshua 24:25)
(2) Like everyone who is completely human, Joshua had two biological parents
(3) Joshua publicly divided the waters (Joshua 3:7, & 14-16)
(4) Joshua defeated Israel’s physical enemies, conquering both Jericho and the nations of Canaan (Joshua
12:7)
(5) Joshua was the supreme leader and leader of the Israelites, since he designated
the place that each tribe
would occupy during their stay in the land of Canaan (Joshua 14:1, & 23:4)
(6) God publicly punished those who disobeyed Joshua; for example, Achan and his family (Joshua 7:19-26)
(7) Joshua [correctly] prophesied that if an Israelite ever tried to override his orders concerning Jericho, he
would do so at the cost of his children's lives (Joshua 6:26, & 1 Kings 16:34)
(8) All Israel believed and/or feared Joshua (Joshua 4:14)
(9) During his earthly ministry, Moses allowed non Israelite people to enter into the Israelite assembly
(Joshua 9:27).
In conclusion, Joshua was that prophet who would be "like Moses". And it goes without saying that, only a
deranged person would be so brazen as to claim to be "a prophet like Moses" while promulgating the
doctrine of “salvation by faith, and without the need of the Law”.
Why? Simply because the latter is an open denial of Moses core message. And
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message?-- That the believer must never abandon God’s Divine Law-- the supreme truth summarized in the
Ten Laws (or “commandments”) written upon the two stone tablets by the very finger of God. And this is the
reason why Moses exhorts us saying:
“And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt rehearse them
continually
unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou tarriest in thine house, and as thou walkest by
the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up: And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Also thou shalt write them upon
the posts of thine
house, and upon thy gates”- Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (1599 Geneva Bible).
And, in perfect agreement with Moses original message, prophet Joshua exhorts us to do likewise, when he
goes on to say:
“Only be thou strong, and of a most valiant courage, that thou mayest observe and do according to all the
Law which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: thou shalt not turn away
from it to the right hand, nor
to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. Let not this book of the Law depart out of thy
mouth, but meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe and do according to all that is written
therein: for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou have good success”- Joshua 1:7-8
(1599 Geneva Bible)
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