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  • Deuteronomy 18:15 (Moses said:)The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. No, we would not have a Bible if Jesus were taken out. We would only have the Tanakh, the Old testament, which predicts the Messiah. However, throughout the Tanakh, from Genesis 3 onward, the prophecies of Jesus begin: 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. In this statment by God, Satan's utter defeat is pronounced ""He will crush your head") while the wound inflicted upon Jesus ("you will strike his heel") is not a death blow- Jesus was victorious over death and sin with His resurrection.
  • In the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 18. Among divinely inspired prophecies is one the Hebrew prophet Moses recorded concerning the Messiah. Quoting Jehovah, Moses stated: “A prophet I shall raise up for them [the Israelites] from the midst of their brothers, like you [Moses]; and I shall indeed put my words in his mouth, and he will certainly speak to them all that I shall command him.”—Deuteronomy 18:17, 18. Since the fulfillment of God’s great purpose is all bound up in Jesus (compare Colossians 1:19, 20), then all prophecy, that is, all inspired messages from God proclaimed by his servants, pointed toward his Son. Thus, as Revelation 19:10 states, the entire “spirit” (the whole inclination, intent, and purpose) of prophecy was to bear witness to Jesus, the one Jehovah would make “the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:6) This would be true not only of prophecy that preceded Jesus’ earthly ministry but also of prophecy subsequent thereto. Acts 2:16-36. A primary intent of prophecy was to make known God’s purposes and the “anointed one,” or “Christ,” through whom they would be fulfilled. Since this chosen one proved to be Jesus, Jehovah’s angel said: “Worship God; for the bearing witness to Jesus is what inspires [or, is the spirit of] prophesying.” (Revelation 19:10) Two facts are made clear by this declaration. First, no agent of true prophecy will demand to be worshiped because true worship belongs only to Jehovah God. (Matthew 4:4; John 4:23, 24) Second, the ultimate aim of all true prophecy must be to reveal events and facts relating to Jesus. This recognizes the key role Jehovah assigned him in the outworking of His purpose to sanctify His name and restore earth to its proper place in His arrangement of things.—John 14:6; Colossians 1:19, 20.
  • In Deuteronomy 18 Moses said that the Messiah would be a prophet "like me." I'm nowhere near my files, but if I were I could give you an entire page of similarities between Moses and Jesus, similarities that are not true of anyone else. Such as that they both went up on a mountain to get the law, both were threatened with death as babies by a king, both were meek and humble, both of course were Hebrews, both miraculously transformed large amounts of water, both fed the thousands with bread from heaven. But Jesus was better than Moses in a lot of ways. The most outstanding is that when Moses offered to die for the people, God rejected his sacrifice--but accepted Jesus's.

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