Being Soaked and Saturated with God’s Word to Speak for God and Speak God into People

Moses was a prophet and, as a prophet, he typifies Christ; he was saturated with God’s word, he spoke the word of God, and every word he spoke became the word of God – he is a type of Christ as the real Prophet.

What is a prophet? Many Christians (and non-Christians alike) believe that a prophet is one who predicts the future being under the control of the Spirit; many even pray to receive the gift of prophecy so that they may foretell what will happen.

However, according to what the Bible shows us both in type, in practice, and in definition, a prophet is God’s spokesman; a prophet is one who speaks for God and speaks forth God, having the divine revelation and being borne by the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes a prophet may foretell the future, but most times he simply speaks for God.

Our God is a speaking God; He created all things by His speaking, He does everything by His speaking, and He came to us in the Son to be the Word of God, the expression of God.

God spoke to us in many ways and in many portions in the prophets in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament He came to speak to us in the Son; the unique prophet in the New Testament age is Christ, the Son of God.

Christ is the Word of God; He is the embodiment of God’s speaking, and through Christ and in Christ God is expressed in His fullness.

On one hand God is hidden and concealed, loving to hide Himself; on the other hand, God is a speaking God, making Himself known through the prophets and in His word.

Hallelujah, our God is no longer hidden – He is manifested, He speaks, and He declares Himself through the prophets and in the Son!

Prophets are God’s spokesmen; they receive God’s revelation directly and are borne by the Spirit of God to speak for God and to speak God forth.

No prophecy in the Bible was ever borne by the will of man; no man has spoken from his own will, desire, and wish, and no prophecy is the thought and exposition of a human being but of God.

The source of all prophecy is God, by whose Holy Spirit men were borne, just as a ship is borne by the wind; men were borne by the Spirit to speak out the will of God, the desire and wish of God.

Therefore, no prophecy of the Scripture is of the prophet’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was carried along or borne by the will of men. Praise the Lord for the Bible, the speaking of God!

Moses was a Prophet; as a Prophet, he Typifies Christ as the One who Spoke the Word of God

In Deut. 18:15 we see Moses prophesying that Jehovah will raise up from the midst of the people of Israel a Prophet, and they shall all listen to Him.

This One will have God’s words in His mouth, and He will speak to the people all that God has commanded Him (v. 18).

Moses was God’s spokesman; he was like an aged, loving father to his children with much love and concern.

The book of Deuteronomy contains God’s word more than any other book in the Bible, for here we see the words of God spoken through Moses, God’s spokesman.

Moses spoke for God for forty years, from the age of eighty to the age of one hundred twenty, all throughout the Israelite’s journey in the wilderness.

As a prophet, Moses spoke God’s word having the divine revelation; sometimes this word involved predicting the future (as seen in Deut. 18:15, 18), and at other times it involved communicating God’s heart and desire to His people.

In his forty years of leading the children of Israel, Moses spoke to them for God; especially in Deuteronomy, Moses repeatedly spoke God’s words to the children of Israel (see Deut. 1:1, 9-11, 18; 4:1-2; 5:11; 6:1-9).

All throughout the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness, Moses did many things – signs and wonders, various arrangements, this and that – but primarily during those years he spoke to the children of Israel the word of God, culminating his speaking with Deuteronomy, a respeaking of what he has already spoken.

Moses spoke for God. He spoke to them, commanded them, and taught them the statutes and ordinances from God, so that they may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of their fathers has given to them.

Even more, he said in Deut. 4:1-2 that no one should add or take away any word from his speaking, for his speaking was the word of God.

This is similar to what the Lord said in Matt. 24; Moses was a prophet and as a prophet he typifies Christ as the One who spoke the word of God.

After the Lord predicted what will happen at the end of this age concerning the Jewish people, the Gentiles, the church, the nations, etc, He said that heaven and earth will pass away but His word will never pass away.

We would never dare to tell others to never add anything to our word, but Moses was so sure that his speaking was not his own words but the commandments of God that he said it, and so did the Lord.

Moses spoke the word of God and told the people of God to have this word in their heart, their mind, on their foreheads, on their doorposts, and speak them to their children, speak them while they sit in their house, while they journey, while they rise up, and as they do anything.

As the spokesman of God, Moses was like an aged, loving father speaking to his children with much love and concern (see Deut. 30:1-4).

We may think that a prophet is a mighty man, like a superman, who stands strong and says, Thus says the Lord! and the earth shakes when a prophet speaks…but here we see a loving father who spoke with love and concern what was on God’s heart, the word of God.

Although it was Moses who spoke, he didn’t speak his own words but God’s words (Deut. 32:1-47).

Moses spoke for God; he spoke forth God; he spoke God into the children of Israel (Deut. 11:8-25). As such a prophet, Moses was a type of Christ, the real prophet of God, as the One who speaks the word of God.

Thank You Lord for Your word in the Bible! May Your word be our daily food and become our inward constitution. We want to read Your word, recite Your word, be filled with Your word, and speak Your word as we are in the house, as we travel, as we rise up, and as we go to bed. Fill us with Your word, Lord, and may Your word saturate our inner being so that we may have the divine revelation and speak the word of God according to the desire of God’s heart. Dear Lord Jesus, we love You, we love Your word, and we want to speak for God, speak forth God, and speak God into others!

Being Soaked and Saturated with God’s Word to Speak for God and Speak God into People

Moses as a prophet was such a pattern to us!

He was a person who was not only soaked and saturated with the thought of God but also constituted with the speaking God Himself; therefore, what proceeded out of his mouth was the word of God spoken through this one spokesman (Exo. 34:29-35; Num. 12:6-8).

For forty years Moses served as God’s spokesman, speaking for God, speaking forth God, and predicting, and every word that he spoke became the word of God recorded in the Bible (Deut. 10:12-22).

If we read the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch written by Moses, we will see how outstanding these are; in these we see the seeds for the entire divine revelation, which is progressive and developing until the New Testament.

Moses predicted that the children of Israel would forsake God and be cast by God into all the nations but that when they would repent and turn to God, He would gather them from the nations (Deut. 29:25-28; 30:1-3).

As such a prophet, Moses is a type of Christ (Acts 3:22-23); eventually, the real prophet is Christ Himself.

Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that God had commanded him to speak; likewise, the Lord Jesus also spoke all that the Father commanded Him to speak (John 12:49-50).

Moses was faithful in God’s house; in particular, he was faithful to speak the word of God.

The Lord Jesus was also faithful to not only manifest God by signs and wonders, but especially to speak the word of God, speaking not of Himself but of the Father, speaking not His words but what the Father gave Him to speak.

Moses was raised up by God as God’s prophet, and in his forty years of leading the children of Israel, he spoke for God all that He commanded him to speak.

Similarly, when the Lord Jesus was on earth, He as the real Prophet spoke for God what God gave Him to speak.

The Lord Jesus was saturated and soaked with God’s word to speak for God, speak forth God, and speak God into people.

He spoke not His own words but what the Father taught Him to speak; His teaching was not His but it was according to what the Father had taught Him (John 7:16; 8:28).

He didn’t speak from Himself but as the Father said to Him, so He spoke (John 12:49-50).

Christ is the Prophet of God, the fulfillment of the type of Moses as the prophet of God; He spoke for God, He spoke forth God, and He revealed God to His disciples.

Today He is still speaking for God, speaking forth God, and speaking God into us.

We need to be such ones, those who spend much time with God in His word to be infused with God, to enjoy God, and to receive God’s word into us; we need to be soaked and saturated with the word of God so that we may speak for God, speak forth God, and speak God into people.

It takes time to be soaked and saturated with God’s word, to be constituted with the speaking God Himself, so that all the words that proceed out of our mouth would be the word of God, thus being God’s spokesman.

May we spend a lot of facetime with God, enjoying Him face to face with no barrier or veil between us, so that He may shine on us, we may be infused with His element, and we may have His instant, personal, living speaking.

If we want to prophesy for God, we need to have more facetime with Him, having an unveiled face, so that He may dispense Himself into us, speak Himself into our being, and speak His heart into us; this will produce us as His prophets, those who speak the word of God by being one with God.

Lord Jesus, we want to spend time with You in Your word to be infused with Your element and have Your shining face rise upon us. Dear Lord Jesus, make us persons who are soaked and saturated with the thought of God, even those who are constituted with the speaking God Himself so that the words proceeding out of our mouth would be the word of God! Amen Lord, we treasure our facetime with You, having an unveiled face, so that we may be infused with Your element and constituted with the speaking God, for us to become God’s spokesmen today, having Christ as the Prophet speaking in us and through us the word of God!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, Truth Lessons—Level One, vol. 2, lsn. 13 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Deuteronomy, week 7, Christ — the True Prophet Typified by Moses.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – We have the Word! The written Word’s our daily food; / We mix this Word with faith and say “Amen!” / Then thro’ the day, the spoken Word will speak to us / And regulate our living from within. (Hymns #1287)
  – Let the word of Christ dwell in you / Richly, in all wisdom / Teaching and admonishing one another / In psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, / Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord / And whatever you do, in word or in work / Do all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, / Do all in the name of our Lord. (Scripture Song)
  – Thou art the food and the water of life, / Thou canst revive me, my spirit upbear; / I long to eat and to drink here of Thee, / Thyself enjoy through my reading and prayer. (Hymns #811)