This is the great and first commandment” (Matt 22:37-38), so our first devotion is to God, but then Jesus said that “a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matt 22: 39). “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law” (Matt 22:35-36)? Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. In an unsuccessful attempt to test or trap Jesus, “a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. Either way, the best summary of the Law and the Prophets comes from Jesus. Maybe it was because he was so involved in recording the Old Testament laws that they thought of those laws as his, or it could be that since Moses personally received the Law from God Himself, they connected him with God’s Law. Moses didn’t come down off the Mountain with his own law, but God’s. There is no doubt that Moses is associated with the Law, even though it is actually the Law of God. “The law was given through Moses grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). God will require it of all who reject Christ someday (Rev 20:12-15). Of course, many did listen to Him (Jesus Christ), but many others didn’t (John 6:66).
And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him” (Deut 18:18-19).
And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. Jesus was actually prophesied to come as far back as Genesis 3:15, right after the Fall, but also in Deuteronomy 18 where Moses wrote, “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” (Duet 18:15), so God “will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. Philip told Nathaniel, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph” (John 1:45). In reality, the Law and the Prophets all pointed to Jesus. The Lord says, He “spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled” (Luke 24:44, and they were. The Apostle John wrote “the law was given through Moses grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). Even during Jesus’ earthly ministry, Moses and the Law were usually connected. Moses and the Law are mentioned frequently together in the Old Testament and the New Testament. If there was anyone in the Bible that we associate with the Law of God, it is Moses. Have you ever wondered why Moses and Elijah were with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration? Why wasn’t David, Abraham, or someone else? The Law and the Prophets
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