TYPES AND FIGURES #3 Welcome to ‘Types and Figures’. In the Bible God may use a person, a place, or a thing to picture some parts of the gospel. A rock for instance, is an inanimate object and a lifeless thing. But when we read the Word of God we need to pay close attention to everything we read, even the rocks. Why? Because God hides truth throughout the Scriptures, including rocks: which we will see as we turn to the book of Exodus, chapter 17: 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt 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. Some read this account and wonder at the glorious miracle of water gushing forth out of a rock (by the way, there was enough water that it satisfied a thirsty nation); but they then fail to go beyond the historical narrative and dig deeper into the spiritual dimension of this amazing event. Christ’s tendency to speak in parables instructs us to always look for more spiritual depth in the things we read in the Bible. In this case, God Himself helps us by expounding upon the Spiritual meaning of this passage in the N.T. 1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. In this verse we find that fuller explanation of the Exodus Scriptures. The rock that Moses smote with his rod and gushed out a river of water to satisfy the thirst of so many, that Rock the Bible says, was a spiritual representation of Christ. The One to come that would quench the spiritual thirst of all His elect people sojourning throughout time in the barren wilderness of this world.
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