“Like Unto Me”
To dramatize to his people what the Messiah would be like, Moses said that he will be “like unto me.” The expression is most appropriate. While standing face to face with God, Moses was told “thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten” (Moses 1:6). To Israel, Moses was a miracle worker, redeemer, deliverer, liberator, mediator of a covenant, lawgiver, revelator, prophet, priest, and king. In each of these things and in many more he was a prophetic foreshadowing of what the Christ would be. All prophets, for those of their own day, are types or living prophecies of what Christ is. For that matter, every man who holds and honors the priesthood typifies what Christ is.
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