Jesus in the Old Testament 2

Luke 24:25-27

Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!  ²⁶Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"  ²⁷ And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

See Jesus through Prophecies, Types & Shadows, and Actual Appearances

Moses, the most important person in Judaism: prophet, leader & deliverer of Israel

          Writer & teacher of the Torah

                    Intermediary between God & man

Moses is a Type of Christ – What Christ will do, or how He will function

Prophet (Deut 18:15), leader, deliverer, the Word, teacher, mediator (Titus 2:5)

Killing of the innocents

Exodus, Ecclesia

Moses & the Actual Appearance of Christ

Ex 33:11.  So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.

Num 12:6-8

"Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you,

I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.

⁷ Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house.

⁸ I speak with him face to face,

Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; and he sees the form of the Lord.

John 5:37.  You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. 

John 6:45-46

It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.  ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.

How do we know it was Jesus that Moses saw?

John 14:7-9

"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."

⁸ Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."

⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 

Ex 3:2.  And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.

When Moses asked His name, He answered Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."  (3:14)

Abraham saw the Angel of the Lord Gen 22:11

Jesus makes it clear that Moses & Abraham saw Him, & that He is the I AM 

John 8:56-59

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad."

⁵⁷ Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"  

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."  

⁵⁹ Then they took up stones to throw at Him (Lev 24:16); but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

The Passover Lamb is a Shadow of  Christ – Col 2:16-17

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

Manna in the Wilderness – Ex 16; John 6:49-51

John 6:49-51

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  ⁵⁰ This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.  ⁵¹ I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever."

The Rock in the Wilderness is a Type – Ex 17:5-6; 1 Cor 10:4 Ex 17:5-6

The Lord said to Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. ⁶ Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink."

1 Cor 10:4.  All drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

John 7:37.  On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

Cloud & Pillar of Fire – Ex 23:20-23

The Bronze Serpent is a Shadow – Num 21:4-9; John 3:14 (2 Kings 18:4)

Num 21:5-9

The people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread." ⁶ So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

⁷ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

⁸ Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." ⁹ So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

John 3:14-15

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

The High Priest & the perfect sacrifice – Leviticus

Prophecy of Jesus in the Wilderness

King Balak of Moab hired Balaam to curse the people of God

Num 24:17.  I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near;

A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel.

Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree – Deut 21:23

1 Cor 15:21.

For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

• One tree brought death, one tree brought life

The cleft of the rock – Ex 33:18-23

[Moses] said, "Please, show me Your glory."

¹⁹ Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

²⁰ But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live."

²¹ And the Lord said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.

²² So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.

²³ Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen."

Moses said “Show me Your Glory”

God says “I will show you my back”

I will put you in a place by Me; you shall stand on the rock

Jesus is that rock (1 Cor 10:4)

He didn’t just put Moses on Jesus

• He put him in the cleft of the rock

    To bore or pierce

• He put Moses in Jesus’ pierced hand – then covered him with the other hand

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