This passage is often misinterpreted as predicting physical annihilation or immediate temporal judgment for all non-believers rather than covenantal exclusion from God's redemptive community, as in the wilderness generation; others wrongly limit it to ethnic Jews ignoring its universal call through Jesus, or downplay its severity by viewing 'destruction' as mere loss of blessings instead of eternal separation, or allegorize the prophet vaguely without recognizing Jesus as the fulfillment.
Acts 3:23
King James Version (1769)
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Peter quotes Deuteronomy 18:19 to affirm Jesus as the ultimate prophet like Moses whom God will raise up, warning that rejection of His authoritative words results in spiritual destruction and exclusion from God's covenant people, underscoring the necessity of repentance, obedience to Christ's teachings, and faith in Him for salvation within the early church's proclamation of the gospel to Israel.