3:1-6 What do we learn here?
3:1-6 What do we learn here?
After having been shown that Jesus is better than the prophets and the angels, we now learn that He is also superior to Moses. Moses was an Old Testament type of Christ as the prophet of God (CP De 18:15-19; Ac 3:19-26; 7:37).
Moses was also a type of Christ in that all who followed him were baptized into him in the cloud, which was the Divine Presence, and in the sea (CP Ex 13:21-22 and 14:21-22). The Israelites were thus brought under obligation to the law, to Moses, and to the covenant. So too all who follow Christ are baptized into Christ and unto His body, the church, by the Holy Spirit (CP 1 Cor 10:1-2 with Ro 6:1-6).
Moses was also a type of the faithfulness of Christ, but, as great and highly revered as Moses was, Jesus is infinitely greater and to be revered more so (CP He 3:1-4 with Zech 6:12-13).
Even as God had spoken to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend, and had given him the Old Testament law, Moses was only a part of God's household of faith, whereas Jesus was the creator of that household (CP He 3:6; Ex 33:11; Nu 12:6-8; Neh 9:13-14 with 2 Sam 7:8-16; Eph 2:19-22; 1 Pe 2:4-5).
Moses was faithful primarily as a testimony to that which was to come in Christ (CP He 11:24-29).
Moses was the highest ranking servant in God's household, but he could never hold the position of Son, which is Christ's alone (CP He 3:5 with Jn 8:35).