In this post I want to return to Deuteronomy 18 and verses 15-22 and Acts 3 verses 17 through 26 where Peter speaks of this passage of Deuteronomy 18. Then to what Jesus is said to have stated by Matthew in chapter 25. I will allow only the word to speak for the word as best I can.
Moses writes: A New Prophet like Moses
Deuteronomy 18:15-22 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to Him you shall listen—just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, "Let us not hear again the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any more, lest we die." And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. 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. And whoever will not listen to My words that He shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, "How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?"—when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.'"
Now for what Peter states: Act 3:17-26 "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. For what GOD foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the LORD, and that HE may send the Christ appointed for you, even Jesus, Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which GOD had spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets long ago. Moses said, "The LORD God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him in whatever He tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people." And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that GOD made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' GOD, having raised up His servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness."
Now hear what Jesus stated as recorded by Matthew in chapter 25 beginning with verse 31 through 46:
The Final Judgment
Matthew 25:31-33, 34-40, 41-46 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. And before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep (the righteous) from the goats (those of the left, the unrighteous, this gotten from the two thieves who were hung with Jesus in His execution and herein as well.). And He will place the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.'
Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed Me, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.' Then the unrighteous will ask of Him, saying, "LORD, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? And when did we see You a stranger and welcome You, or naked and clothe You? And when did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?" To this the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.'
Then He will say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.' Then they also will answer, saying, "LORD, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?" He will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.'"
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