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"HASHEM your G-D shall establish for you a Prophet from your midst, from your brothers, like me -- and to him shall you listen."  (Deuteronomy 18:15)

The word "qereb" is used as that which "is within", "among", "in the midst of".  Its use in the Old Testament pertains to describing the location of the heart, mind, and soul within the body of man.  It is used of describing the body of a man as being "within", "amongst", "in the midst of" a tomb or sepulchre.  

In the description of the prophet, as being from "within" Israel, there is a "spiritual" connotation as well as a physical implied.  

This points us to Malachi 3:1's Messenger, John the Baptist, who goes before the Angel of HASHEM who spoke to Moses.  Malachi reveals that John, from the Torah's perspective,  is the Messenger of the coming Prophet like unto Moses.  That Prophet like unto Moses who is really HASHEM.  

Exodus 23:20-21, which reads:
"Behold! I am sending a Messenger [i.e., a forerunner to John the Baptist's wilderness ministry] before you to guard you in the wide course {the Wilderness}, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.  You are obligated to be on guard to heed and observe as a watchman before him, and listen to His voice.  Do not be rebellious against Him, for He will not lift up your transgressions, for My NAME is in him."

And what did John do?  He acted as a witness to people who baptized themselves before him, giving heed and observing as watchmen, exercising individual repentences.  And who did John precede?  Jesus...Yeshua.  

As a Prophet like unto Moses...Jesus gathered Israel and watched over them in word and doctrine.  He was likened to a shepherd (John 10:11) of men, whereas Moses was a shepherd of sheep (Exodus 3:1).  And what was the role of a shepherd?  He was a greater overseer of sacrifice moreso than the priests.  

Moses gave witness as to what G-D told him of the written Torah...but as the author, Jesus went and taught as the Torah's author...taking greater final authority, like unto THE LAWGIVER, or Moses.  

Moses was both accepted and despised in his time, as if on a pendulum of popularity...as was Jesus / Yeshua.  Moses was meek, as was Jesus.  And on and on we could go.

If we really look close...we can really see the envy of rabbis in Yeshua, because from Him flow the Spirit of HASHEM.  The same holy presence Israel's soldiers felt at the Western Wall in 1967 at the moment they regained the Temple Mount, was ever present with Yeshua.  How can a rabbi compete with that? Shalo.

P.S.,
Any one else wish to add parallels between Moses and Jesus/Yeshua?

As a Shepherd, both Moses and Yeshua had greater authority than any "nasi" or prince...including the High Priest of Israel.

Both were overseen at their birth and infancy by women named Miriam.  And it was women named Miriam who had a profound participation in each of their ministries.  

Any one else?  Similarities only please....

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I wish to now address one issue: Mariology.

The worship of Mary is simply the same idolatry of Baal and Asherah of the Old Testament, dressed in new clothes.  In the Old Testament, there were those who poured out wine oblations to Asherah, the Queen of Heaven, the mistress prostitute of Baal.  Through phonetics, some thought Ba'al as Ba El, the way of G-D, and incorporated pagan deity into the worship of Elohim.  This led to the destruction of Israel, and then of Judah (when Jerusalem fell in 587/586 B.C.).  

G-D repeatedly says that He is alone, and there is no one beside Him.  He also uses language that Messhiach is beside Him, but that He is also that Messhiach...HASHEM and HASHEM Messhiach (such as the language employed in passages I have discussed at length elsewhere).  There is no room...none...for an alien to move in and take up what position that only G-D alone assumes...mediation between Himself and man.  

What role the Holy Spirit performs as a person has been usurped by Mariology.  What authority Christ has, has been warped and usurped by Mariology.  Thus, Mariology blasphemes both Christ and the Holy Spirit, taking...thereby...the office of two persons of the Trinity, and making Mary into the harlot mistress of the Father.  Another Ba'al and his Asherah mythology / idiocy, conveniently updated.  

G-D never claims to have one face, nor to be one sole (yachid) person...hence, Elohim, and not El and Eloah most of the thousands of times "G-D" is translated from the Hebrew in the Old Testament. He is not a "council of gods", He is one being in three persons with seven unifying spirits that bind Him as that one Being.  This is not my concept, but G-D's own testimony in His Book, the Ol and New Testament Bible.  I suggest that we stick to His Testimony, and discard  man's additions and commentary whenever it seeks to over-ride Scripture, or speak with greater authority than G-D Himself.  Shalom.

Both had the spirit of G-d. Moses had a portion, Jesus without measure.
Both received witness from G-d in audible voice to the congregation.
Both were mediators of a covenant with Israel.
G-d worked miracles through both of them.
Both delivered on Pentecost a gift. Moses the law; Jesus the Holy Spirit.
Moses was raised as a Prince and became poor, Jesus was born poor from a forgotten kingly line and inherited all things through his obedience to G-d.
Moses anointed and washed Aaron and his sons, Jesus washed and anointed his disciples with the word and Holy Spirit.
Both were fathers of the church, authors of faith.
Both were children of Israel.
Moses attempted before his time to reconcile brothers and they rejected his mediation, Jesus refused to mediate between brothers when they sought him because it was not his time yet.
As Israel rebelled after Moses' death, so did the church after Jesus was taken up to sit at the right hand of G-d.
As Moses was faithful in his house, so was Jesus faithful to G-d.
Moses did not commit idolotry, neither did Jesus.
Moses was a military leader, Jesus is G-d's Captain of Hosts.
Moses spoke to Pharoh on behalf of G-d, Jesus spoke to Israel on behalf of G-d.
Moses built a wall with the law, separating the Israelites from the gentiles, Jesus broke and pulled down the wall between Jew and Gentile so they might serve G-d together according to truth and spirit.
There are many parallels between these Messiahs, but of course Jesus was the Messiah that Moses would point to.

Shalom,
Chris

Like unto Moses the Lawgiver (received from the LORD), Y'shua, teaching that which He received from the Father (John 8:28), gave the Law of the Kingdom (Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on the Mount).

Amen Chris!

In a sense, Moses coming to the Door of the Tabernacle is both a type of righteous Abel and a prefigurement of Messhiach, as a study in Genesis 49:10 would reveal.

"Not shall depart the scepter from Judah nor a law-maker between his feet until comes Shiloh, and to him the obedience of the peoples (shall be)."

For example,

Shiloh: the coming "Burnt Sacrifice": "Until comes Shiloh"
“UNTIL”   - AD  "as far as", “even to”, "until"

[cf. Harris, Archer, Waltke  “Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament”, Chicago:Moody, © 1980, Vol. 2, pp. 645-646, lists examples of Genesis 12:6 "as far as" Bethel; and Psalm 118:27  "even to" the horns of the altar.  “AD” also holds eternal consequence (p. 647, Theological Wordbook), and therefore, when applied to Messiah, we should think in terms of eternal origins, even as stated in Micah 5:2.  The translation “until”, therefore, carries that heaviness and weight of that which “has already and has always been of old, even to everlasting”.]


“COMES”      -    BaY - Y'BA'ah  

Bay -- : to entreat, to ask politely and earnestly, and to make supplication
Yod --: abbreviation for YHVeH, the LORD; i.e., GOD.
BA'ah -- :  Door, or door-way; inclusive of the immediate path leading up to.

"at YH's Door, supplication is made"
alternately:  " at YH's door, supplication comes"


“SHILOH” -  Shiloh

Interpreted generally: "to whom it belongs".

Shiloh is considered as being related to the Akkadian word for "Counselor" -- selu.  (Cf. Isaiah 9:6).


ShaY, the first half of the word means "a gift" or "offering"

LaH, the second half of Shiloh, means "to burn, flames,  the flashing (of a blade, for example)."

Thus, in this verse of Genesis 49:10, Shiloh must be rendered as Shaylah: the burnt sacrifice.  This is seen in the context of the “mighty GOD” who is both our counselor / advocate / high priest, and our propitiation / sacrifice.


[Isaiah 9:6-7.  Messiah is both the eternal Father, and a son of David.  Messiah is both a son of man, and the mighty GOD.  He is both Counselor, i.e. the High Priest who seeks to create Peace from one greater, and the Ruler who dispenses that very same Peace.  He is beyond awesome to behold or describe, and yet wears the descriptiveness and identity of government upon his shoulder.  In effect, the biblical concept of a YHVeH Messiah is a contradiction in terms, until one accepts that GOD is capable even of donning a suit of flesh, like one of us, and doing exactly what Jesus Christ did; and speaking exactly what Jesus Christ said.  In fact, it takes more faith to not believe that any Being who could create the entire Cosmos, including us, is somehow incapable of a miniscule feat such as that.]



Therefore, “until comes Shiloh” is alternately rendered: [From before the beginning of time] - “As far as YHVeH’s Door (is) supplication of the burnt sacrifice made.”

Isaiah chapter 53 reveals that burnt sacrifice as not being a lamb, but a person: “the Arm of YHVeH”; whom the Song of Moses identifies to us as being the “Right Hand of YHVeH” (Exodus 15:6), whose blood on the door’s side posts and lintel is in the form of the Cross (Exodus 12:21-22).

Totally man. Moses only wrote down stuff that G-d said, whereas Jesus actually was the SON of G-d. I am so glad I found Jesus as my savior in the year 2006 and set my family straight after thousands of years.

Alkan,




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As we examine the prophecy of Genesis 49:10, we should ask ourselves 4 primary questions:

1) From whom must the lineage be traceable, and is it traceable anymore?
2) What is the deadline posed in the prophecy, and what were the circumstances of that deadline?
3) Who -- is Shiloh?
4) Who are the peoples that will gather unto him?
When we can answer these questions, we have solved the mystery of the prophecy.



Genesis 49:10 -- 'From whom must the lineage be traceable?'
-- 'Is that lineage traceable anymore?'

1) The lineage must be traceable through Judah. With the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, the lineages were lost. The book of Days, that is the name of the ‘Jewish Ancestral library of genealogical records,’ was destroyed. What was easily traceable for Luke (in 50 A.D.) and Matthew (in 55 A.D.) to look up is no longer available for us today. * Nor was that task in existence / available even 20 years after the writing of their Gospels in Corinth of Achaia and in Jerusalem itself (A.D. 70 and 75, respectively). Therefore, the identity of Shiloh must precede 70 A.D. The only one able to make this claim is Jesus Christ, Yeshua of Nazareth: born in Bethlehem of Judea; reared in Galilee, Israel.

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Genesis 49:10 -- 'What is the deadline posed in the prophecy?'
-- 'What circumstance will cause the deadline to occur?'

2) The deadline posed is to arrival of the staff or lawgiver between the feet. That is, one who is NOT of the line of Judah, who takes control as if he were (a Judean heir to the Throne of Israel). Herod I is the only one who can fill this deadline, coining money which shows himself as a Judean messiah, and as the fulfillment of Genesis 49:10. Shiloh must come no later and no sooner than the reign of Herod I. After whom, briefly, the Romans seized and redistributed Herod's kingdom (ca. 4 B.C. ff.), and the prophecy of Genesis 49:10 passed its deadline. Again, only Jesus Christ fulfills this requirement of a Messianic deadline given by Genesis 49:10, just making the deadline with weeks (no more than months) to spare.**


Genesis 49:10 -- 'Who is Shiloh?'
3) Shiloh must be offered up as "Shay-Lah", as a "burnt sacrifice". Again, this is fulfilled only by one man in the relevant time period, who offered himself as the "Lamb that takest away the sins of the world". The Passover lamb is burnt upright, on a spit in a manner that is akin to being crucified on a "†" shaped cross. That is, he must be crucified and offered as a "living testament of what Passover would come to mean". Had we used the Yom Kippur way of signification, we would also say that this Shiloh must, like the escape goat, be cast out of the city of Jerusalem in abhorrence, and offered up for the sins of the entire nation of Israel. This very wording was cited by the high priest to the Sanhedrin in A.D. 30, saying,

"ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us,
that one man should die for the people,
and that the whole nation perish not.” (John 11:50-51)

4Q521 of the Dead Sea Scrolls tells us that: the Messiah will not turn aside from the measure and splendor of the commands (He has) given to His Holy Ones. The mission of the Messiah is to: restore the pious; seek out the righteous and call these ones by name; to be compassionate to the poor; release captives; make the blind to see; heal the sick; resurrect the dead; and announce good tidings to the poor.***

Who else but Jesus -- within this ancient deadline -- ever fitted this above description?

Further, the saying of 4Q521 saying that “He will exalt and make glorious the righteous on the Eternal Throne of His Kingdom”, is only fulfilled in Revelation 3:21. Since this Scroll Fragment predates 70 A.D., he demonstrates that the Christianity of the New Testament is indeed, a continuation of Judaism. It also opens the possibility of the scribe of 4Q521 having either heard or read the Christian work of the Apocalypse, for himself.

The "Scepter" of Genesis 49:10 is thought by some to have been viewed by the Dead Sea Scroll scribe of 4Q252 as being a politically structured. The manner in which Genesis 49:10 describes the “Scepter”, and the discussion by the scribes on the "star" that rises out of Jacob of Numbers 24:17, are viewed by some scholars to be equivalent terms of reference that this “Shiloh” is of a Davidic descent, and that of a Law-giving Messiah.
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Genesis 49:10 -- 'Who are the peoples that will gather unto Shiloh?'
4) The peoples are found in the Hebraic plural of "im" (םי. This means not just one ethnicity, such as the Jews only, but of many peoples -- hence many nations. More properly, for whosever will of all humankind, of any and every nation, tribe, clan, or family -- may come and gather unto Shiloh.

This word for “peoples” is preceded in the Hebrew, by the word: "obedience". We, in our current day, like to interject the words "Faith" and "Trust" and "Belief". Again, the only one fulfilling this prophecy, is YHVeH Messiah, Jesus Christ; because we are called to trust into Him personally, not simply as just a great messenger. And as you may know, peoples from every nation have those who are obedient unto this ONE, who exclusively fulfills this prophecy's requirements.

In Joshua chapter 5, the children of Israel enter into the Land of Israel as being uncircumcised. They offer up the foreskins of all males at the hill of foreskins. When the males have all healed, they are given the sign of the New Covenant, in which the reproach of Egypt is rolled off the Children of Israel. The name of the place is called: Gilgal. Its New Testament synonym is Galilee, the region of rolling, and the habitation of liberty. At the Resurrection of Messiah, the reproach of death and sin was cast off and rolled away; even as the stone of Christ’s sepulcher was cast off quite a distance, and rolled away uphill. Therefore, the circumcision of the flesh, is an outward act of an inward activity of faith which has already taken place. Circumcision was of no effect in entering Israel by GOD’s power or promise. The inward action of trust, manifest by an outward compliance, brought about another opportunity to trust, and outwardly comply yet again. Therefore, a trust and living faith in YHVeH, is the key to entering to GOD’s Promised Land: whether it be Israel, Paradise, Heaven, or the New Jerusalem. The Law profits us nothing, other than being our tutor. The Law teaches us about YHVeH and what He is and is not like. The Law instructs and aids in trust. The activity of trust, which then becomes a circumcision of the heart, is up to the free will of each individual to experience and go through. It may involve temporary pain, but the long lasting benefits far outweigh the initial discomfort.
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* The lack of criticism from the post 70 A.D. Jewish sources of any Christian lineage also proves that the Gospels were written and widely published prior to the Jewish War of 66-70 A.D. Luke wrote the lineage of Mary (Miriam), the mother of Messiah. The “Book of Days” was there for all to see, that indeed, Mary descended from the lineage that Luke cites. And that in regards to her firstborn son, no father was listed for Yeshua; but rather, the space was left blank. The fact that this tradition is retained by the sages, points to a working knowledge and investigation that was concluded and announced well before the Jewish War. In regards to Matthew’s genealogy of the stepfather Joseph, this second record is given, so that it too might be examined. It in no way contradicts Mary’s family records, and the specific details, which support along with Mary’s records were an embarrassment to Christ’s harshest critics, who left the issue of Joseph’s records silent. Members of the immediate and extended family (nephews and others through half-brother Judas) still lived and worked a 39 acre plot of land in Israel as late as Domitian’s reign (81-96 A.D.); and were on hand to rebuff any false allegations. Cf. Eusebius, History of the Church, 3.20.

** This timeline is NOT challenged, ever, by the harshest critics of Christ in the Sanhedrin or among the record-keeping scribes.

*** Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. 18, No.6, Nov/Dec 1992, p. 62; “4Q521 and a Line-by-Line Analysis” by Michael O. Wise and James D. Tabor.

Jesus is the saviour of the prophets.

Moses caught a glimpse of God.
Jesus said he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

Moses went up to the Mountain of the Lord.
Jesus taught in the Mountain of the Lord.

Moses turned water into blood.
Jesus turned water into wine.

Moses asked Pharoah to set Israel free.
Jesus freed us from the law of sin and death.

Moses was the lawgiver.
Jesus is the judge.

Moses was an offended ruler.
Jesus is the loving father.

Pharoah tried to bargain with Moses.
Jesus paid our debt.

Moses prophesied peace in the promised land.
Jesus is our peace.

Check out the book of Hebrews; it talks a lot about Moses and Jesus.

Avodah Zarah 8b speaks of a law concerning rabbis:

"...for the...Government of Rome issued a decree:
'that he who ordains a Rabbi shall be slain, likewise he who is ordained shall be put to death, the town in which an ordination takes place shall be destroyed and the tehum  in which the ordination is held shall be laid waste.'"

The rabbi must be one ordained by the laying on of hands (Sanhedrin 13b-14a), which was fulfilled in Jesus through the prophet kohen priest of John the Baptist.

Isn't it interesting, that this Jesus who was condemned in A.D. 30 by the Sanhedrin, also found this decree fulfilled in 70 A.D. -- in 40 years time -- within their generation?  All this whence it also says: "Forty years before the Temple was destroyed did the Sanhedrin abandon [the Temple] and held its sittings in Hanuth."

When did they condemn Jesus?  In a special year in which there would be no doubt as to their rejection even before they gave their verdict on Yeshua.  

Hence, Jesus is a prophet like unto Moses but better...for He is the Torah, the Instruction (and Instructor) as the Word of G-D made flesh.

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Of further comment on Shiloh in Genesis 49:10 -

cf. Eisenmann, R. & M. Wise, “The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered”, Rockport : Element (U.S. Edition) © 1992, p.83.

The Mehokkek, is to be interpreted as belonging to "the Covenant of the Kingdom." In 4Q252, the rank of Shiloh is greater than all these leaders and commanders for all time -- for ever. Shiloh is greater than Moses, greater than David, greater than Solomon, greater than Joseph in Egypt, and even greater than Abraham the great Patriarch.

Further, in Column 5.3-4 (on p.84 of their book), Shiloh is specifically identified as the "Messiah of Righteousness", holding greater rank, status, and so on, than any of the chief leaders or chief military commanders of Israel.

This book by Eisenmann and Wise is also recommended for those laity wishing to examine how isogetical the Dead Sea Fragmentary translations often are.

The Isaiah Scroll is not presented, to which only the slightest variations occurred in a period of over 1,000 years of scribal copying (ca. 150 B.C. - 900 A.D.). Of those 13, a few involved the words dealing with “light” and “radiance” being switched, and 3 spelling changes within the language: as if the English “Armour” were spelled in the American English “armor”, etc. Therefore, we may understand that these traditions were by demonstration of fidelity in transmission afterwards, a faithful concept of what was passed on from before -- to an unknown time in the past from there.

The concepts, to me, are indeed more Pharisaic than anything else. The Essenes were Herodian in allegiance, and with the death of the last Herod in 44 A.D., we should see the Essenes disbanded, as Josephus says, into every town. This being the case, and the fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls continuing in authorship up to the Jewish Revolt of 66 A.D., including a declaration of Jerusalem’s Temple gold: who then were the keepers of the Temple, with their scribes? Were they Essenes? Of course not! Therefore, the notion of Essene authorship to the Dead Sea Scrolls sinks, while the Pharisaic hypothesis floats.

Food for thought. Shalom.