In Deuteronomy, chapter thirty-four, verse ten, Moses’ distinctions were his intimate fellowship with God and His understanding of the nature and person of God. The foremost desire of all believers should be to know God and experience His close association. The privilege and rights as God’s children. No person in Christ, possessing an inner life of devotion and outer life of godliness, will be denied the presence and grace of God. The fellowship of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the believer’s promise and reward.
Moses brought Israel to the borders of Canaan and then died and left them. The event signifies that the law made nothing perfect: it brings men into a wilderness of conviction but not in the Canaan of rest and settled peace. That honor was for Joshua, our Lord Jesus, of whom Joshua was a type, to do that for us, which the law could not do. Through Christ, we enter into the spiritual rest of conscience and eternal rest in heaven. Moses was not like any other prophet of the Old Testament.
But our Lord Jesus went beyond him, far more than the other prophets came short of him. And see a strong resemblance between the Redeemer of the children of Israel and the deliverer of humanity. Moses’ assignment from God was to deliver the Israelites from cruel bondage: he led them out and conquered their enemies. He became not only their deliverer but their lawgiver, not only their lawgiver but the Judge. Finally, Moses leads them to the border of the land of promise.
Our blessed Saviour came to rescue us from the slavery of the devil and to restore us to liberty and happiness. He came to confirm every moral precept of the first lawgiver; and to write them, not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. The Son of God came to be our Judge since He appointed a day when he will judge all the secrets of men and reward or punish accordingly. This greatness of Christ above Moses is why Christians should be obedient and faithful to the holy religion by which they profess to be Christ’s followers. God, by his grace, make us all so!