Pastor and 1st Lady Mims

Mims Chapel Church

Week 1, June 7, 2026

LESSON 1

A Prophet Like Moses

Lesson Text:

Numbers 12:1-8; Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 34:9,10;
John 1:21; 5:45-47; 6:14

Memory Verse
"And there arose not a prophet since in /srael like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face..."
Deuteronomy 34:10

Key Terms
covenant • a formal, solemn, and binding agreement; a sacred relationship, involving promises from God and required conduct or faith from people.

mediator • the administrator of a covenant; a go-between seeking to resolve a dispute.
prophet • an inspired discerner or proclaimer of the will of God.

Suggested Emphasis

The prophetic ministry in the Old Testament was covenantal. The prophets were defenders of the relationship between God and His people. They routinely referred the Israelites back to the Mosaic Law as a standard and guide for their lives. In doing so, all true prophets have matched the pattern left by Moses. However, in a concrete sense, no other prophet was comparable to Moses, since the latter was also a mediator of the agreement between God and Israel. The Lord unveiled the Covenant through him, which makes him unlike any other historic figure except Jesus Christ.

Emphasis 1:

God's Special Regard for Moses

Our greatest revelation about Moses comes as result of a controversy about what appears to be his second marriage, this time to a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). The priest Aaron and the prophetess Miriam confronted their brother about what they considered an unsanctioned union, and while doing so they posed the rhetorical argument, "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Hasn't he spoken through us, too?" God was then offended on Moses' behalf. He called the three of them to the Tent of Meeting and explained how He distinguished Moses from all other prophets. "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" (Num. 12:6-8).

Emphasis 2:

The Prophecy of Another
Prophet Like Moses

At the end of Moses' life, this unique standing of his was reinforced. Moses had laid hands on his successor Joshua and had imparted to him "the spirit of wisdom" to empower his leadership over the nation (Deut. 34:9). Nonetheless, "there has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face" (Deut. 34:10, NLT). The preeminence of Moses among the prophets stemmed from his intimacy with the Lord. Moses enjoyed a closeness and familiarity with God that no other Israelite shared.

Yet God communicated a promise that there would ultimately arise another prophet, from the nation of Israel, that would be comparable to Moses. This is the prophecy from Deuteronomy 18: "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; according to all that thou de-siredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not" (Deut. 18:15-19). Moses argued that a mediator was the answer to what the children of Israel asked for at the foot of the holy mountain, when they were terrified by the voice of the Lord (Ex. 20:18-21). When the people begged for an intermediary to bring the Word of God to them instead, God said they had "well-spoken that which they have spoken" (Deut. 18:17); it aligned with His divine plan that Moses serve as mediator of the covenant. But it was also the Lord's intent that He would one day institute a second or revised covenant with the elect. "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that

I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD" (Jer. 31:31,32). Of course, a new covenant would necessitate there being a new mediator of said covenant (Heb. 9:15); that is the role the coming Prophet was to play.

Emphasis 3:

The Identity of That Prophet

For hundreds of years the nation nurtured a messianic expectation, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Prophet. That is why, when John the Baptist burst upon the scene, the priests and Levites asked, "Art thou that prophet?" (John 1:21b). Similarly, when some witnessed Jesus' feeding of the five thousand, they speculated, "This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world." The children of Israel had never forgotten this promised figure, this second Moses. Jesus supported the notion that he was the Prophet when he asserted that Moses had referenced him in the Torah. He told the Jewish leaders, "Yet it isn't I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes. If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But since you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?" (John 5:45-47, NLT).

Missions Application Questions

How was Moses distinct from every other prophet in Israel?
What characteristics would Moses share with the coming Prophet that was prophesied to be like him?
Is there ever a time you were unable to accept the word of the prophet? Explain.

World Missions Prayer Points

Let us pray for the servants of God to be uplifted in their arduous task of speaking to God's people.
Let us pray that the relationship between God and the prophet remains pure
Let us thank God for the Mediator of the New Covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ.