Deuteronomy 18-19
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.” And the LORD said to me, “They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to My words that he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Here the LORD promises not to leave His people in complete silence after Moses departs. He promises to speak to them through prophets as intermediaries, just as with Moses, with the same kind of authority. And indeed down through Israel’s history we see any number of faithful prophets — Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Amos, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and John the Baptist, to name a few — who declare God’s words to His people.
But these verses came to be interpreted as pointing not only to a series of prophets but also (and more importantly) to one specific Prophet (with a capital “P”) Who would overshadow all the rest. As a result, in John 1:21 we see priests and Levites from Jerusalem asking John the Baptist, “Are you the Prophet?” John answers, “No.” John is not the Prophet, but he goes on to point to One Who is greater than he, meaning Jesus.
Jesus is the Ultimate Prophet. Not only does He speak God’s words, He is Himself God’s Word (John 1:1-18), the full and complete expression of Who God is (John 14:9). He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature. (Hebrews 1:3a)
If you want to know God, listen to His Prophet. Listen to Jesus.