Does Deuteronomy 34:10 predict the coming of Muhammad?

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Does Deuteronomy 34 .10 predict the coming of Muhammad? Deuteronomy 34 .10

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reads as the following, Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the

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Lord knew face to face. That's in Deuteronomy 34 .10 again. Our Muslim friends argue based on this passage that the reference to the passage could not be an

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Israelite since the text reads, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses.

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So therefore they think it couldn't be an Israelite. Instead, these Muslims believe that Muhammad actually fulfills his prophecy.

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In response, there are a number of problems with this interpretation. First, it must be noted that since that time reference in Deuteronomy 34 .10

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refers to the time since Moses' death up until the last chapter of Deuteronomy was written, probably at the time of Joshua around 1400

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BC. Even if parts of Deuteronomy were written later, as some critics argue, it was still composed well over a thousand years before the time of Muhammad.

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So this timeframe really does not work. Now Muhammad was born around 570 AD and he died in 632.

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So that's again over a thousand years well after the time that this text is referring to.

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Second, this text cannot refer to Muhammad since a prophet to come would be like Moses who did all the signs and wonders which the

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Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants and all his land.

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As Deuteronomy 34 .11 indicates. So Moses was a man of miracles. He did miraculous events.

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Again, as Deuteronomy 34 .11 says in the context. It's the next verse. Muhammad on the other hand, even by his own confession did not perform miracles.

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You can read Surah 2, 118 and then Surah 3, 183.

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Third, this prophet to come would speak to God face to face as Deuteronomy 34 .10

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says. But Muhammad never claimed to speak to God directly. Instead he received revelations through an angel as Surah 25 .32

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indicates and Surah 17 .105 says. Therefore this passage does not refer to Muhammad.