Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. Deuteronomy 34:10.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I know the people I chose and what is in their hearts. I do not look at outward appearance but at the heart to find out who you really are and the level of trust I can place in you.
God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7.
I chose Moses to bring My people out of slavery in Egypt and following My direction and by My power he succeeded to take them out of Egypt and get them across the desert to the promised land, but they hardened their hearts against Me and would not enter. Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated. Deuteronomy 34:7.
Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, for all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land, and for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel. Deuteronomy 34:10-12.
Why Moses?
I tell you why: Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth. Numbers 12:7.
He was humble. Adam was not. Pharaoh was not. Solomon was not.
Moses, though he was raised as a son to Pharaoh’s daughter, did not seek to be identified with royalty but sought to save his people from ill treatment. This, however, led to his fleeing out of Egypt as a fugitive from justice and giving that dream up. When I appeared to Moses forty years later, Moses responded with attention and interest. He understood that I was God, the God his ancestors had worshipped, but he wanted to know more. He wanted to know Me personally and thus wanted to know My Name.
He as believed I had heard the people’s cry and came down to save them but he did not believe himself to be capable of the great work I showed him he was to perform. But once persuaded of My glorious plan and My ability to work with him, even understanding his need for a companion, which I gave him in his brother Aaron, he never turned back, but only went forward no matter what obstacles occurred.
Moses trusted Me and never gave up no matter how intense Pharaoh turned up the opposition. Moses was teachable and followed directions. And the more he followed, the more wonders he saw, and the more committed he came. He went from interest in Me to intense loyalty and love. No matter how much the Israelites complained, his heart was steadfast in Me. He was always on My side, but he was always ready to intercede for mercy for his hardhearted countrymen.
He wrote songs about Me and even now in Heaven the song of Moses is being sung.
And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are Your works, O LORD God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! Revelation 15:3.
I was and am his strength and song and became his salvation.
I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will extol Him. The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is His name. Exodus 15:1-3.
He found Me awesome.
“Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? Exodus 15:11.
I spoke with Moses face to face like a friend. I revealed to him the first five books of the Bible. I showed him My work of creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, and the call of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The lives of Leah and Rachel and the births and lives of the twelve sons of Jacob and their betrayal of their brother Joseph. The move to Egypt and the dream of Pharaoh and the life of Joseph. Moses was fascinated and overwhelmed with the revelations I entrusted to him. He cut two stone tablets at My direction and watched Me write on them with My own finger as My Words appeared chiseled clearly on the stone.
He watched Me part the Red Sea as he raised his staff and take two million people across with wagons filled with silver, gold, jewels and fabrics that I had given them through the favor of their slave masters. And I had told this to him ahead of time. Just as I had to Abraham. He saw Me save the people from destruction by the army of Egypt in signs, wonders and miracles like no one else has ever seen.
He saw the ten plagues I visited on Egypt as justice for all the afflictions they had heaped upon My people as Pharaoh refused to release them. With Me partnering with him, he took down an entire nation with just his shepherd’s rod and My Words.
Fearless in Me, he went to Pharaoh and said that I, the LORD, had a message for Pharaoh, and that message was simple, “Let My people go.” But Pharaoh had no respect for Me and was not about to let their work force of slaves go. But that did not stop Moses or Me.
Initially on his first meeting with Me, Moses reaction was that he could not do this deliverance and that he would not go. Do not miss your visitation. When I open the door to you to work with Me for a glorious result that would otherwise be impossible, take it.
Moses wrote Psalm 90 after his disappointment that the vast majority of those he led out of the slavery of Egypt would not enter the promised land to claim their inheritance. And he wrote it about Jesus, that is, Adonai. He did not use My Name that I revealed to him but the name that meant a Lord who is God and man.
Lord (Adonai), You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Psalm 90:1-2.
He had found that in the cleft of the rock at My side was My secret place where he could rest secure. And he understood what that was. And My Son told you why:
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. John 5:46.
When he longed to see My glory, I told him I would pass all My goodness before him but he could not gaze upon My face and live. So, it was then that I told of the secret place of being in Christ.
“You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!” Then the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand there on the rock; and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.” Exodus 33:20-23.
Why was Moses so chosen? Why Moses over two million people?
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth. Numbers 12:7.
He was going to stick with Me no matter what. When I wanted a tabernacle and told Moses just how to fund it and gave him the plans for it, Moses did not know how to build it but he was determined to do so according to the plan and I gave him the help he needed and Moses made sure it got done as I had planned it and Moses erected it with his own hands when it was made.
I told Moses to do things that looked impossible, but he had learned from his first encounter with Me that I could make his staff into a snake and turn it back into a staff and that I could have him perform what I told him to do and make it happen. I only needed to show him that once and he never questioned Me again as to his ability through Me to do whatever I told him to do.
Moses saw My works, but contrary to the majority of those he brought out of Egypt, he also understood My ways. And from that came his great love and zeal for Me.
He understood that everything he did depended on Me and My power and will. And he loved that and did not desire to take things over. You see that when he came to Me and told Me if I would not be personally with him and the people he would not go anywhere but just stay right where he was.
Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people!’ But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, ‘I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?” Exodus 33:12-16.
There was none other like Moses under the Old Covenant but Moses foretold that in the future I would raise up a prophet like him and if the people did not believe His words they would be cut off from the covenant.
The LORD said to me, ‘They have spoken well. I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.” Deuteronomy 18:17-19.
A prophet like him. One who was meek and humble of heart. One who did great signs and wonders. One who knew My works and My ways. Adonai.
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned. Hebrews 11:23-29.
Whatever I told Moses to do, he trusted Me and did it. He did not question why I told him to turn all the people in another direction that seemed to box them he with Pharaoh’s attacking army, he did not think he knew better and try to take the reins into his own hands. He turned and found out later he had set the people up for the biggest miracle of escape there ever was.
Though he was willing to step out with Me and do amazing things, Moses was humble. He knew he could not do things on his own without Me and he had no desire to do so. If I would not go with him, he would not go. That was not Adam’s attitude. He was going to do everything himself without Me.
And that was not the attitude of Jesus. Jesus, like Moses, did nothing without Me. Unless I told Him what to say and showed Him the works I planned for Him to do, He would not do them.
Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. John 5:19.
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. John 14:10.
For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:49-50.
Moses was not God but Jesus is and always was and will be God, but Jesus was the most humble man that ever lived for He set aside His powers as God and became one just like you in all things but sin. He was the humblest man on earth and was also the greatest worker of miracles of any man on earth. Moses prophecy of one like him from his own people who was the only way to Me had come true.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30.
A greater than Moses has come, a man even more humble than Moses. Moses had been adopted into royalty and set apart from his people but he chose to humble himself as a servant to Me and My people Israel, but Jesus is the King of kings and the Lord of lords from everlasting and He chose to humble himself as My servant and yours, He came to serve and not to be served, to give His life as a ransom for the many.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11.
Jesus came to do My Will, it was His delight. And while Moses was a servant in My house, a good and faithful one, Jesus is My Son. A Son’s place is forever. And you are in My Son so your have His place, in fact, I have seated you there with Him, and your place in the house is forever. Jesus called His disciples His friends for they had continued in His Word, become His disciples, and knew the truth and the truth had set them free. So they knew My ways from My Son who is the way, the truth and the life. He called them friends as I called Moses for Jesus had made know to them what I am about. But in Jesus I do not only call you friends, but I call you My beloved children, for you are in My beloved Son.
So why pursue humility? For the same reason Moses pursued it. For the same reason Jesus was it. So that you can know Me, speak with Me intimately and do fruitful works that endure and bring miracles to pass. Humility brings Me down to make you great. As you humble yourself beneath My mighty hand, I exalt you with Me forever. I can trust you with great and mighty revelations and works and have no fear you will become proud and resist Me and turn the world around you hostile to Me as Adam did. Jesus never attributed anything He did to Himself but only to Me. Humility shows honor. And I honor those who honor Me.
Humility is not a coward. Humility is fearless for humility is not dependent on itself but on the one whom it exalts. Moses never took any credit for the great miracles that I worked at his hands but gave Me all the glory.
I love you. I resist the proud (for they resist Me) but I give grace (My divine life and nature) to the humble. It is only the humble I can raise up to greatness with no fear of losing their souls. Imitate Jesus as My dear children and walk in love, for love is humble and willing to be the servant of all.