Moses Wrote of Me

                         "…[Moses] wrote of Me” –John 5:46

How Moses wrote of Christ?

1. By enumerating the promises which had respect to the Messiah.

    " In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12: 3)

"A star shall  rise out of Jacob .." (Deuteronomy 10:150) 

"The scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come.." (Numbers 24:17; Genesis 49:10) 

2. He restricted these promises to a certain family from which the Messiah was to be born; and to which the promise was afterwards more frequently referred, and spoken of. 

3. The whole Levitical priesthood, and ceremonial worship, sacrifices, oblations, the altar, the temple, and other things which Moses described, all looked forward to Christ. The kings and kingdom of the Jewish nation were types of Christ, and of his kingdom. 


Hence, Moses wrote many things of Christ.

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Excerpted from the Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism, translated from the original Latin,by the Rev. G. W. Williard, A. M. , Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Com.Grand Rapids, Michigan,  1956, Q&A 19, p.102-13.