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Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers and I will put my

words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

This is a promise from God through Moses that God would raise up a prophet greater than Moses

who would have the words of God in his mouth and would speak all exactly as God

commanded him. Now this is the picture that we see of prophets throughout the Old

Testament. The whole responsibility of a prophet was to speak for God, to say thus says the Lord and then relay exactly what God had said.

And we see faithful prophets like Moses and others who come after him

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, we can go on and on and on with different prophets.

But we know none of those prophets were perfect.

All of those prophets struggled with sin in their own lives.

The picture here in Deuteronomy 18 though is a greater perfect

prophet who is to come, who would have no sin sin who would speak God's word perfectly reveal God's truth

perfectly this is Jesus.

Deuteronomy chapter 18 is pointing us,

ultimately, to Jesus, to the coming of a perfect prophet who would speak the words of God, perfectly reveal the truth of God without any hint of error, sin, or impurity.

And so as we think about Advent, as we think about the coming of Jesus, let us realize that

this is who we need.

We need a perfect prophet.

Not someone who will claim to speak for God

and then speak contrary to God.

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