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Commentary on "Trumpet, Blood, Cloud, and Fire"
Day 5: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Overview
“Here we see Moses’ humanity waffling before the challenge that faced him, and failing to remember that the God who opened the Red Sea also could open a path through the deserts and provide both food and water.”
“Even our Savior felt at times the need for human sympathy and support.”
(From Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide, Wednesday's lesson notes)
Problems
Comparing Moses’ “waffling” to Jesus leads to very dangerous ground. In the Matthew account, Jesus asked Peter, James and John to pray with Him for their protection, not His own comfort. His admission that His soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death was a statement of fact, not human waffling.
This is another example of the Adventist church’s tendency to make Jesus merely human instead of fully God and fully human. As usual, they default to an Ellen White quotation instead of letting the Bible speak for itself.
Gethsemane was the single greatest exercise of faith in the history of mankind, until the cross. Jesus’ choice there led Him through the hellish kangaroo courts of the rest of the night. His plea to His Father to “take this cup from me, yet not my will but yours” was nothing less than the salvation of humanity in miniature. Jesus knew what was coming, and He never flinched. Even when the process of His becoming sin was completed on the cross and He felt the awful separation from the Father, He acted by faith – “Father, I commit my spirit into Your hands.” This was the greatest exercise of faith in the history of mankind.
Please do not denigrate such suffering and love with romantic notions of human need.
Summary
- Please let Moses be Moses and Jesus be Jesus. They are not the same.
- Jesus was the Second Adam, not the second Moses.
- “Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself” (Hebrews 3:3).
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