Prophet Moses

Prophet like Moses

ACTS 3 COMMENTARY ◄
Acts 3:13-21 God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Acts 3:22-26 Prophet Moses

ACTS 3:22-23 22 “For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

Which Old Testament passage is Peter referring to in Acts 3:22-23?
Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19, in which Moses said, "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear," and the LORD said to Moses, "I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him, And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him."

Who quotes this passage today?
Many sects, cults and other religions that claim their "prophet" is the one foretold above.

How do we qualify their claims?
Just read the rest of the passage: "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ - when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him" (Deuteronomy 18:20-22). So, if a "prophet" speaks "in the name of other gods" or his prophecy "does not happen or come to pass," then he is a false prophet and "shall die."

Who is the "Prophet" Moses prophesied about?
See Messiah.

ACTS 3:24-26 24 “Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

What does Peter mean by "You are sons of the prophets" (Acts 3:25)?
Their ancestors included the Jewish prophets of the Old Testament.

What does "And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Acts 3:25) mean?
It's what God had said to Abraham no fewer than five times two thousand years prior in Genesis 12:3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4 and 28:14 to tell him that the Messiah who will bless all nations on earth will be born a Jew.

What is a "covenant" (Acts 3:25)?
See Genesis 15.