EAT AND DRINK: WHO DO YOU SEE?

After leaving the land of Sin during the exodus from Egypt, the Israelites became thirsty for there was no water to drink.

The people blamed Moses who they believed sought to thirst them to death. Apparently, by then they neither trusted God nor Moses, possibly thinking that Moses was more Egyptian royalty than the spokesman of God.

Moses asked for God to intervene before he himself was stoned by the Israelites. God had a plan and revealed it to Moses: 

Go on before the people and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod, wherewith you smote the river, take in your hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. (Exod 17:5-6) 

Moses did not perform to standards but by grace God delivered water from a rock anyway.

 

Above is a picture of what is believed to be the rock from which the water flowed.

What has that got to do with anything? It is a foreshadowing of Jesus. You see a dry rock while I see the Image of Jesus. You see dry ground; I see a stream!

Paul wrote to the brothers at Corinth about that same event, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Cor 10:4).

Now can you see Christ Jesus in the rock? Squint tightly. I see invisible water flowing from the crevice of that rock. I see a stream flowing down the mound of stones. 

Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost, and, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Mat 17:50-53) 

When Jesus died, what flowed from the rent rocks? Living water from the belly of Jesus (John 7:38). When “One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34). Then the blood and water flowed through the crevice on Calvary after the quake. God had again split the “Rock” to make the water flow!

What happened when the rock split on Calvary? The dead arose. What happened when God split the rock shown in the picture? The Israelites lived. In both cases it was the living water of God that prevented death, in the first instance, so that the Israelites could live and in the latter case, so that none should perish (John 3:16).

Now look at the rock again. The water is no longer there but neither are dead bodies. Jesus stood before Moses; it was not living water from Moses but from the invisible belly of Jesus.

What did the Jews at the crucifixion miss? That Living Water came from the belly of Jesus, not from Moses. What did the Israelites miss during the exodus? That the water that gave life did not come from Moses but from pre-incarnate Jesus. Jesus has been with them since ancient times, but they failed to see Him.

Even Christians miss Jesus in all respects. When they are nourished, they see food provided by their own hands, but when I eat, I see Jesus feeding me because all things proceed from Him.