Judges 7:9-25, Judges 8, John 5:30-47, Psalm 76
John 5: 45-47
“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is
one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed
Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his
writings, how will you believe my words?”
In verses 45 through 47 from John 5, Jesus tells the religious
leaders that he will not accuse them to his Father-God because that is not why
he was born on earth. Instead, Jesus tells them that it will be Moses who will
accuse them. Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament which is
known as the Torah to the Sanhedrin. The Torah is the foundation to the Jewish
faith and is the authority for how Jewish people live their live since follow
the laws set forth in the Torah which is called “Mosiac law”. Jesus tells them that since they believe
Moses, they should believe him because there were prophecies from Moses of
Jesus in the Torah. I love how Jesus told the religious leaders that he is the
fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy including the ones made by Moses in the Torah.
Jesus then accuses the religious leaders of not believing the writing of Moses,
which is harsh because the Torah is the foundation of their faith and their
authority in life. The religious leaders were so focused on having a king like
David that they couldn’t accept Jesus. They wanted a king who would free them
from Roman rule, and not a king who wanted to free them from sin. I can understand
why the religious leaders had a such a hard time accepting Jesus. Sometimes you
pray for God to do something in your life and when it doesn’t happen the way
you want, you get frustrated and lose faith. Perhaps this is what happened to
the religious leaders; they lost their faith in prophecies of Moses since they wanted
something other than what Jesus was offering them.
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