I am trying to share certain points in which Moses well may be a “type” or a “picture” or an “emblem” of our Lord Jesus Christ. And I have discovered there are more of these than I had ever imagined!

Watch Moses identify with his people, the Jews. “And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens.” (Exodus 2:11) Now here’s essentially the same heart-felt loyalty expressed about Jesus. “For which cause he (Jesus) was not ashamed to call them brethren.” (Hebrews 2:11)

Both Moses and Jesus relinquished great riches to identify with the poor people they came to serve. “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.” (Hebrews 11:24-26) And Jesus: “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” (Philippians 2:6) Or maybe better yet: “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9)

Both Moses and Jesus were (initially) rejected by their Brethren! Israel to Moses: “Who made thee a ruler over us?” (Acts 7:27) Israel to Jesus: “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” (John 1:11)

Watch both men sitting on wells! And each well was outside the area where the Jews were living, on foreign soil! “But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.” (Exodus 2:15) Our Lord: “Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.” (John 4:5-6)

Both men were shepherds! See Exodus 3:1 and John 10:16.

Both men also spend many years in obscurity. Moses 40 years in the desert, and Jesus 30 years at home in (despised) Nazareth!

Both men worked miracles!

Both men either already have or will wield mighty rods of power! Moses’ rod is well known. And when Jesus comes again … “I (God the Father) shall give thee (God the Son) the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a ROD of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” (Psalm 2:8-9)

Others similarities exist which I have not discerned, I am sure.

But surely these are enough to prove, that even in Moses’ middle years, he was a type of our Saviour.

The Lord willing, tomorrow, the last third of Moses’ life.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

You know what?

We Christians today are supposed to be “like Jesus” in many ways!