Mosaic succession??
Now we are just making stuff up (like someone else did with apostolic succession.)
Yes I looked it up. Yes, I found one result. No, I don’t find that to be a credible doctrine either. If anything, it emphasizes how far you are willing to stretch to defend a strange doctrine.
It’s in your Bible man, the Israelites transferred Authority through the semikhah, the laying on of hands.
Before Moses died he ordained Joshua his successor through the laying on of his hands.
The semikhah is called the chain of hands, because it was an unbroken succession of the laying on of hands conferred from Moses time.
"Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the Israelites heeded him, doing as God had commanded Moses."
Moses is called the first Rabbi of Israel, and teaching and preaching authority was passed on through the Semikhah the laying on of hands, Successor to Successor.
It conveys leadership, governance and teaching Authority.
Apostolic Authority is transferred the same way.
“For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.”
Paul confers the gift of God to Timothy “through the laying on of my hands”.
Is it just for Timothy? No, because Paul tells Timothy not to lay hands on any man hastily.
This means that it is a succession of the laying on of hands, the gift of God is transferred to Timothy’s successors and so on. As Jews they fully understood this was a succession and lineage of authority.
Just as a spiritual event occurred when Moses laid hands on Joshua, a spiritual event happened to Timothy when Paul laid hands on him. The Apostolic gift of God was conferred to Timothy.
Protestantism rejected this lineage of Apostolic ordinations, and took the bible as their only authority, but not having Apostolic successors to teach, they interpreted every conflicting wind of doctrine from the Bible, and scattered, each man pleasing himself with his own interpretations of Scripture.
Protestantism is outside the Apostolic lineage of successors.