Jesus concludes His case for His claims in John 5:31-47 by pointing out that He would not need to “accuse” the unbelieving Jews of His day “to the Father,” because “Moses,” the very one who they claimed to “trust” and believe in, would accuse them. Think about it; they claimed to believe in Moses, but disbelieved the one of whom Moses wrote (vs. 45-47). They claimed to believe in the books of Moses—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy—books cherished by them as the books of the Law, the Torah and the Pentateuch. Yet, they denied the very one about whom the first five books of the Bible were written.

Moses wrote about Jesus? In fact, absolutely everything Moses wrote was about Jesus. As we’ve already learned in our study of the Two Witnesses of  the book of Revelation, everything in the Bible is about Jesus. No matter where you turn; every book, every chapter, every verse and every word is about Jesus Christ! Jesus is the subject of the Scripture.

Moses prophesied about Jesus.

1️⃣ Moses wrote of Christ as the “seed of the woman” who would come to “bruise the head of the serpent” (Genesis 3:15).

2️⃣ Moses wrote of Christ as the “seed of Abraham”  who would come to “bless all the nations of the world” (Genesis 22:18).

3️⃣ Moses wrote of Christ as the coming “Shiloh unto [whom] the people will be gathered” (Genesis 49:10).

4️⃣ Moses wrote of Christ as the coming “Star out of Jacob” and “Scepter” that would “rise out of Israel” (Numbers 24:17).

5️⃣ Moses wrote of Christ as the coming “Prophet” whom God “would raise up” and to whom God’s people should “hearken” (Deuteronomy 18:15).

Moses also foreshadowed the coming of Christ by writing of numerous types-of-Christ.

1️⃣ Moses wrote of the “Passover Lamb” as a type-of-Christ.

2️⃣ Moses wrote of the “manna” as a type-of-Christ. 

3️⃣ Moses wrote of the “rock” as a type-of-Christ. 

4️⃣ Moses wrote of the “sacrifices” as a type-of-Christ.

5️⃣ Moses wrote of the “tabernacle” as a type-of-Christ. 

6️⃣ Moses wrote of his brother Aaron, the “High Priest” of Israel, as a type-of-Christ.

7️⃣ Moses wrote of the “brazen serpent” as a type-of-Christ.

To me, it is of no little significance that the two  human witnesses Jesus mentions as corroborating His personal claims and testimony in John 5:31-47 are Moses and Elijah, the biblical characters of whom the two witnesses of Revelation 11 most  remind us. Do  we find here another hint to the identity of Revelation’s famous two witnesses? I believe we do!

As Moses wrote about light and fire proceeding the manifestation of Jehovah (Genesis 15:17) and as John the Baptist served as “a burning and shining light” preparing the way for Christ’s first coming (John 5:35), so also are the two witnesses of Revelation  burning “candlesticks” (Revelation 11:4) proceeding and preparing the way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in power and great glory! They are those bearing lamps (witness) before the coming of the  bridegroom (Matthew 25:6-7; John 3:28-30).

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