Respected sir: This email is regarding the information you have displayed in the following link https://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2000/jul/page7.shtml regarding prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) like Prophet Moses (peace be upon him). What you have mentioned is wrong the prophet like unto Moses is prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Please consider the following with an aspect in search of the truth and leave all rational differences behind. The following is the reasoning and matter: – this is an article by Mr. Ahmad Deedat please read it and I am sure it will spread some knowledge: WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT MUHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) THE PROPHET OF ISLAM, A lecture by Ahmed Deedat ~ email from mohammed akbar ali khan
The petitioner above and the article he submitted propose that Deuteronomy Eighteen’s prophecy about God raising up a prophet like unto Moses refers not to Jesus Christ but to Muhammad. How can one tell whether the prophecy refers to Muhammad or Jesus Christ? The Scripture reads:
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken…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” (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18).
First, the New Testament, possessing the same divine inspiration with which the Old Testament was penned, tells precisely who fulfilled this prophecy. There is no doubt regarding the identity of the prophet like unto Moses!
“For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people” (Acts 3:22-23).
The context in which this appears applies the fulfillment of Moses’ prophecy (through the apostle Peter’s sermon) to Jesus Christ (verses 20, 26). The following Scripture narrates a sermon by Stephen before the Jewish Sanhedrin, in which he applied the Old Testament prophecy under review to Jesus Christ (Acts 6:8-15; 7:51-58).
“This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear” (Acts 7:37)
The apostle Philip also stated that Moses’ prophecy (Deuteronomy 18) as well as the hundreds of Old Testament Messianic prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He avowed this to be so based on the evidence of the same demonstrated to him by Jesus Christ himself, before and after his affirmation.
Second, notice that in the prophecy contained in Deuteronomy 18:15 that the prophet under consideration was to arise from among the Jews: “…raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren…” The original recipients of the prophecy in Deuteronomy were only: (1) the offspring of Abraham through his son, Isaac and his grandson, Jacob; and (2) the Israelites who Moses by the power of God had led in the great Exodus from Egyptian slavery. Mohammed, though, claimed descent from Abraham through his son, Ishmael.
Third, Jesus, who Moslems recognize as a prophet of God, would hardly be worthy of that esteem if he claimed to be the Son of God and the Messiah if such were lies. Jesus definitively and without doubt acknowledged himself to be the Son of God and the Messiah. “…the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am…” (Mark 14:61-62). (See also John 8:25; 5:18-25; 6:69; 10:36; 19:7).
Fourth, the similarity between Moses and the prophet like unto Moses, Jesus, is that they were respectively the lawgivers for the Old and New testaments. “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). Contrasts between Moses and Jesus, though, include the superiority of Jesus to Moses and the superiority of the New Testament to the Old Testament. The Book of Hebrews demonstrates those contrasts throughout its volume (to persuade first century Jewish Christians not to abandon Christianity and return to Judaism).
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end” (Hebrews 3:1-6).
The passage above contrasts Moses and Jesus, not Moses and Mohammed! The Book of Hebrews and the whole New Testament is silent regarding Mohammed. Anyone professing to have the least regard for the Old Testament, the New Testament or “prophet Jesus” must be struck with the fact that Jesus rather than Mohammed is the prophet like unto Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18).
Last, the true identity of the prophet like unto Moses of Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 is no matter of idle amusement. Rather, it is the most serious topic mankind could possibly ponder. The who of Deuteronomy Eighteen is of eternal significance. “I [Jesus] said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:24).
