Christ, the Prophet

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 28, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 21.

Christ, the Prophet

"HATH in these last days spoken unto us by his Son." As God spoke by the prophets, so also he hath spoken by his Son. It is altogether a wrong conception of his mission, that many now have who oppose the law of God—that he came as a lawgiver, to set up a new law and a new word in opposition to the old. He was "that Prophet," not a lawgiver. "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." Deut. 18:18, 19. When he came, he accordingly declared, "For I came down from Heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me." John 6:38. "I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak . . . Whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." John 12:49, 50. And as the mission of the prophets "in time past" was to bring the people to the law of God (Neh. 9:29); so it was pre-eminently the mission of Christ to magnify the law and bring the people to its observance.