He Wrote of Me by Francis Monroe Burg

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 30, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 50.

“He Wrote of Me”

By Francis Monroe Burg

THE INTIMACY OF MOSES AND CHRIST

OFTENTIMES to-day we hear men who purport to be preaching the gospel of Christ, heaping stigma and reproach upon Moses, leaving the impression that there exists a diametrical antagonism between his teachings and the message of salvation as brought to us by the great Teacher who was “sent from God.” This is a serious misrepresentation of the relationship that exists between the leader of ancient Israel and the One who is now riding forth to conquer in the world-wide gospel campaign.

Moses wrote of Christ. The office and ministry of Christ was his theme. It was the subject toward which all that he wrote converged. Not merely that he occasionally and incidentally mentioned Christ in his writings. No, he wrote of Him, just as the writer of a book intended to set forth the religion and propaganda of Mohammed, showing the character and aims of that religious system of the Orient, may be said to have written of Mohammed.

The great system of types and ceremonies with which Moses was so closely connected, and of which he wrote so fully, is the clearest and most effective foreshadowing of the work of Christ as man’s Mediator and Redeemer that is presented by any of the Bible writers. Of all the Messianic references in the writings of the Old Testament, none deal so directly with the fundamentals of the great plan in which man’s hope of salvation centers as do the writings of this man of whom the Saviour Himself said, “He wrote of Me.” John 5: 46.

When Christ, in all the glory and majesty of the Deity, came down upon the mountain and delivered His holy law to Moses for the people, the grandeur of the scene, the thunder and the lightning, the fire and the smoke, the voice that shook the mountain, caused them to fear and tremble. They requested that the voice of the Deity should not be heard any more, and requested Moses to speak to them. This request was respected, and the promise was made that a Prophet from among them should be raised up, in whose mouth the words of God should be put, and the people would hear Him.

The very words which Christ, as God, in the power and glory of the Deity, spoke upon the mountain, He came to speak in the words of man. He, the God-man, walked among us, the great Teacher sent from above. Thus was fulfilled the promise by Moses that a Prophet was to be raised up among men, like him, who would make known the way of salvation and teach the words of life. See Acts 7: 37, 38.

Let us have due respect for him whom God so honored as to place him in the very lead of all the men in the Bible record who wrote of Christ.

When redemption is completed for the human race, and the redeemed sing the everlasting

song, the name of Moses will be freed from the stigma that men have heaped upon it. May we all be permitted to unite, in that glad day, in singing “the song of Moses and the Lamb.”

FRANCIS MONROE BURG.