In spite of his hesitation and doubts, Moses would still need to be the mediator between God and man. You shall speak to him and put the words in [Aaron’s] mouth…. [Aaron] shall be your mouth and you shall be as God to him. The Lord did not release Moses from his position as mediator because Moses had been chosen to point the people of God forward to Jesus Christ. Moses was an instrument through whom the Lord’s voice could be heard in the world, and yet, he was just a type of the Son of God who came down to earth from heaven (cf. parallels in humility, shepherd, performing signs, speaking the words of God). Our Lord Jesus followed the pattern established by God’s interaction with Moses as a program for his mission as mediator and deliverer of the people of God.

The difference was that Jesus Christ turned out to be a much better Mediator. Although Moses was hesitant and a little proud, Jesus was willing and completely submissive. More than that, whereas God worked through Moses, Jesus was God and man at the same time. Jesus was not just an instrument through whom God showed his love, but he was God in human form, the exact representation of his being, the manifestation of his love. The voice of the Lord spoke clearly through the Word who became flesh, and he revealed his presence on the earth with many miraculous signs that revealed many of the same things that God showed the people through Moses. His miracles revealed that he had power over health and sickness, storm and creation, the angels and the demons, water and wine. He is able to cleanse people from their uncleanness and in his grace the blood he shed was not that of his enemies, but it was his very own blood which he shed so that God’s enemies could be saved from his wrath. He was the voice of the Lord in perfect clarity, declaring to the world that he had been sent by the Father for the sake of his people, the church whom he loved. He is the voice that we must pay attention to, for he is the one who has anointed us to a life of service in his kingdom.