Our Lord and Moses

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 26, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 33.

Our Lord and Moses

THOSE who reject the writings of Moses must get very little satisfaction, comfort, or help from the record of our Saviour's temptation in the wilderness, and how He met successfully the prince of darkness at that time. Three times He is assaulted by the powerful tempter (Matt. 4:1-11); three times Jesus meets his assault with scriptures drawn from the great treasure-house of the writings of Moses. The first time, He uses Deut. 8: 3; the second, Deut. 6: 16; the third, Deut. 10: 20.

He in whom dwelt “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,” drew from the arsenal of God’s word His weapons of defense. If divinity veiled by humanity needed these to conquer, how much more do we! But those who reject Moses, will virtually reject the temptations of Christ, as being merely traditional or allegorical. Most truly said the Master: “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?” John 5: 46, 47. There are the same evidences to the truth of the Pentateuch as to the truth of the Gospels. The Bible is one.