For those of you without Advent calendars, I will give you a virtual calendar. We begin in the Old Testament, of course, with the stone tablets. It is curious that God listened to the people when they said to Moses, "Make sure that we don't have to hear the voice of the Lord; make sure that God keeps sending us people who will speak for him, so we don't have to listen to him directly." And then God says, "OK. I will." (What's up with that? Is God really that scary that the people don't want him to talk directly to them?)
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
And Jesus enters the long line of prophets who speak for God. Yet Jesus was different, as we'll see in the coming days.
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Moses really said that?
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