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that Rock was Christ!

1 Corenthians 10:2-4
"2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

We study the Holy Scriptures in a way we Really THIRST for God. Like the DEER seeking the refreshing waters of a stream. As ALL living creatures we require water, even more than food! Generally, someone could survive weeks without food and only a few days without WATER. 

Our land is very THIRSTY. Our society today being without the worship and fear of God. A secular humanist culture that has cracking soil and plants dying and drying up. Our world needs the rain of God and the REIGN of GOD! Today's verses takes us back to another time like this. The Apostle Paul is writing of when the Israelites had escaped slavery in Egypt and wandered through the wilderness. First Corenthians chapter ten, verses two through four; "And were ALL baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did ALL eat the same spiritual meat. And did ALL DRINK the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

The Israelites were dying of thirst and grumbling about it. God instructed Moses to speak to the Rock and water would spring forth. Moses stuck the Rock in addition, above and beyond what God asked for. Jewish tradition said that a fragment broken off from the Rock followed the Israelites through their journey. This traditional account of the Rock was a illustration of the abiding presence of God. From this Rock ALL their THIRST was quenched! As our verses point out; "that Rock was Christ."
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