The question of course is yet, Did Moses write regarding Jesus death or the symbolizm of sacraficial animals or not. The messianic prophecies from the son of the woman crushing the head of the snake and forward well covers this text in John without saying anything about the cross or the reason thereoff.

I wrote earlier in this thread:



Given that Moses received instruction from the Lord regarding the ceremonial services, how is it possible that God would have neglected to explain the whole point of them to Moses?

Lets make this simple. You show me where Moses did explain and this thread will have been resolved in under 15 pages.

GC did a nice job doing just this (earlier in this thread).

In regards to my question, given the Lord gave Moses instruction regarding the ceremonial services, how could Moses not have understood their meaning? I don't see how this idea makes any sense.

The last post on page 8 is the one you are refering to I suppose. Abraham and Isaac on Moria is a good point, though im not sure wether it covers both questions or only one of them?

Yes, it is of interest. Here's something else which may also be of interest here.

My study Bible has the following key thought regarding Isaiah 44:28 and onward, the prophecy about Cyrus:



In other words, the Messianic prophecies may have been clear, but misinterpretations of unrelated prophecies clouded their understanding.

Thought provoking.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I don't know if anyone brought this one also, but Abraham understood the meaning of the sacrifice.

Thomas, irrespective of a specific example, just on a theoretical basis, what sense does it make that God explained the ceremonial services to Moses yet Moses did not understand why Christ had to die?

What I am wondering about here Tom, is that your position seem to throw out the concept of progressive revelation. Why? Because what you say is that there was not a time when at least some people had not already been taught everything that we know with 3-4000 year of hindsight. The question is why it took a Paul or a John to write the NT letters when a Moses could have done it just as well? Why wait 1000 years for a Isaiah or an Ezekiel when Abraham could have penned the same truths (assuming Abraham was literate). Why is the bible written over a span of over a thousand years when Moses was like Mohammad given the entire story from the very beginning?

Certainly there is progressive revelation, but there are certain things which God communicated from the beginning, such as Creation and the sacrifice of Christ, to name two.

Christ Himself communicated the Plan of Salvation to Adam and Eve. He explained that He would have to die, and why. This knowledge was passed by Adam and Eve to their children. Pre-flood man had no need to write things down. After the flood, with continually degenerating powers, it became necessary to have things written down. Much of what Moses wrote down was already common knowledge. Some things Moses wrote down He received specific instructions from the Lord to do so. The ceremonial law falls into this category.

God Himself personally instructed Moses in regards to the ceremonial law. I'm not understanding how Moses could not understand its meaning. Do you think God didn't bother to tell him, choosing to keep it a secret until Paul's time? Do you think God gave Moses myriad minute instructions without giving Moses any reason as to why?