My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
I appeal to you that we change how we see the prophet Moses of old. The notion that Moses represents our modern day spiritual/religious leaders is absurd and not founded by the Scriptures. For there was "no prophet like him" that existed before or after except the prophet Jesus our Lord who is even greater than him.
Moses was the Law giver of the OLD COVENANT and CHRIST is The Prophet "like" unto him in the NEW COVENANT. Moses and God explicitly compared himself to the coming great Prophet Jesus Christ our Lord. So if a leader compares himself to Moses of old, it is as if he is comparing or saying that he or she is of the level like that of our Lord Jesus Christ who deserves our worship and complete submission! How simply absurd is that doctrine. Shortly put, it is equivalent to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church regarding the Pope as the Head of the Church instead of Christ Jesus Our Lord
Let's follow the words of our apostle Paul when we study the OLD TESTAMENT which says that the things in them "are a shadow of the things to come..." meaning, the Law is considered our "tutor" or "schoolmaster" teaching us about who Jesus is or about His NEW COVENANT which was then still "to be revealed" to the Israelites.
That is why the Israelites couldn't question Moses because questioning him is the same as questioning GOD. It is the same as our treatment of the perfect Lord Jesus Christ today. Now God made us like the body and Christ our head. Paul said that each member of the body including himself is in need of each others help. We can speak to each other's lives by the authority of God's Word not to destroy but to build up each other as a body. That is why when Paul saw Peter's hypocrisy among the Gentile believers, he rebuked him in public not to destroy his reputation but to teach all that we ought not to be men pleasers.
References: Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18, 34:10, John 1:17 and 45, Colossians 2:16,17, Galatians 3:23-24, Matthew 17:1-5. Rom. 12:3-4, Gal. 2:11
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