1 Corinthians 10:1-5
1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
The Israelites were baptized or immersed in God’s grace of deliverance (salvation) by passing through the parted waters of the Red Sea, and in the cloud of God’s presence leading in the day and over the tabernacle. They ate of God’s word and manna for spiritual and physical food, they drank from Christ’s mercy, the true Rock from which the water of life would flow as later explained to Nicodemus. But they did not trust and obey, they did not have the faith of Moses or Abraham who “believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness.” This is why they wandered for 40 years in the desert until they most all died. Only the few who believed lived. So only those trusting Christ and His finished work now will live in His presence with no veil to separate. This is good news!
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