Prophets And "The" Prophet

"HE will raise up for you a prophet like myself from among the people, from your brothers, to whom you shall listen.  Remember that in Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, you said: 'I am afraid to die and I do not want to hear the voice of YAHWEH again or see again that great fire.'  So YAHWEH said to me: 'They have spoken well.  I shall raise up a prophet from their midst, one of their brothers, who will be like you.  I will put MY words into his mouth and he will tell them all that I command.  If someone does not listen to MY words when the prophet speaks on MY behalf, I MYSELF will call him to account for it.  But any prophet who says in MY name anything that I did not command, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die." - Deuteronomy 18:15-20 

(I shall raise up a prophet from their midst.  This "prophet" means the whole series of prophets who will continue to address Israel, as can be seen at the end of the paragraph.  Yet, in the future, Israel was expecting a prophet greater than all others, a prophet who would lead the entire people as well as Moses had done.  When John the Baptist appeared, some asked: "Are you the prophet?" [John 1:21], and Christians understood that CHRIST was "the Prophet" [see Acts 3:22])

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