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Scott's Reference Library
Deuteronomy 18:15 through Deuteronomy 18:20 (NIV)
15The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your
own brothers. You must listen to him. 16For this is what you asked of the LORD
your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the
voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”
17The LORD said to me: “What they say is good. 18I will raise up for them a
prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth,
and he will tell them everything I command him. 19If anyone does not listen to
my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
20But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded
him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to
death.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 15-22
It is here promised concerning Christ, that there should come a Prophet, great
above all the prophets; by whom God would make known himself and his will to the
children of men, more fully and clearly than he had ever done before. He is the
Light of the world, John 8:12. He is the World by whom God speaks to us, John
1:1; Hebrews 1:2. In his birth he should be one of their nation. In his
resurrection he should be raised up at Jerusalem, and from thence his doctrine
should go forth to all the world. Thus God, having raised up his Son Christ
Jesus, sent him to bless us. He should be like unto Moses, only above him. This
prophet is come, even JESUS; and is “He that should come,” and we are to look
for no other. The view of God which he gives, will not terrify or overwhelm, but
encourages us. He speaks with fatherly affection and Divine authority united.
Whoever refuses to listen to Jesus Christ, shall find it is at his peril; the
same that is the Prophet is to be his Judge, John 12:48. Woe then to those who
refuse to hearken to His voice, to accept His salvation, or yield obedience to
His sway! But happy they who trust in Him, and obey Him. He will lead them in
the paths of safety and peace, until He brings them to the land of perfect
light, purity, and happiness. Here is a caution against false prophets. It
highly concerns us to have a right touchstone wherewith to try the word we hear,
that we may know what that word is which the Lord has not spoken. Whatever is
against the plain sense of the written word, or which gives countenance or
encouragement to sin, we may be sure is not that which the Lord has spoken.