Christ in the Old Testament...
Wilderness/Manna/Ser
pent/Rock
Christ in the Old Testament...
Wilderness
“Let my people go. Moses words to Pharaoh Exodus
4 – Exodus 9
Go into the wilderness so that they may worship me.
Duet 8 v 2 Remember how the Lord your God led
you all the way in the wilderness these forty years,
to humble and test you in order to know what was in
your heart, whether or not you would keep his
commands.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Wilderness
3 major things were mentioned:
a) to humble you
b) to prove you
c) to know what was in your heart
So as we examine the scriptures, the specific
purpose of the wilderness was a mere 'proving
ground'.
In the wilderness, one is supposed to die to the
flesh (your ideas, your ways) and listen to the
Word of GOD.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Wilderness
Luke 4 tells us that Jesus Is Tested in the
Wilderness, but not for 40yrs but for 40 days.
Jesus what tested, by the Devil, in his proving ground
and received His promise.
Please do not die in the wilderness like a whole
generation of Israel did, only Joshua and Caleb entered
the promise land of God.
When Jesus was in the wilderness, He passed every
test.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Manna
Manna was the supernatural food God gave to the
Israelites during their 40-year wandering in the desert.
The word manna means "What is it?" in Hebrew.
Like us the people of Israel, complained to God about
what little they had to eat, and things were better back
in Egypt. Exodus 16, it rained down bread from heaven.
In one form or another, bread is a recurring symbol of
life in the Bible because it was the staple food of
ancient times. Manna could be ground into flour and
baked into bread; it was also called the bread of heaven.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Manna
New testament - More than 1,000 years later, Jesus
Christ repeated the miracle of manna in the Feeding of
the 5000. The crowd following him, were in the
"wilderness” he multiplied a few loaves of bread until
everyone had eaten their fill. (Luke 9 v 10-17)
Christ frequently referred to himself as bread: "the
true Bread from heaven" (John 6:32), "the Bread of
God" (John 6:33), "the Bread of life" (John 6:35,
48), and John 6:51:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This
bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world."
Christ in the Old Testament...
Serpent
In Numbers 21, the people again got discouraged,
and in their unbelief they murmured against
Moses for bringing them into the wilderness.
As a judgment against the people for their sin,
God sent poisonous serpents into the camp, and
people began to die.This showed the people that
they were the ones in sin, and they came to Moses
to confess that sin and ask for God's mercy.
When Moses prayed for the people, God
instructed him to make a bronze serpent and
put it on a pole so the people could be healed
(Numbers 21 v 5 -7).
Christ in the Old Testament...
Serpent
The people did get healed when they looked at the
serpent, and the image was kept for many years. Many
years later, when the Israelites were in the Promised
Land, the serpent became an object of worship (2 Kings
18:4).
This shows how easy it is for us to take the things of
God and twist them into idolatry. We must never worship
the tools or the people God chooses to use, but always
bring the honor and glory to God alone.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Serpent
John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the
wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.
Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of
the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written:
“Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”
Paul is reminding the Galatians that Jesus became a
curse for us, although He was blameless and sinless—the
spotless Lamb of God. “God made him who had no sin to
be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Christ in the Old Testament...
The Rock
Exodus 17 v 1-7 Yet again the people complained to
Moses “give us water to drink” (v2).
V6 Moses is told by God to go and to strike the rock at
Horeb, and the people will have water.
Numbers 20 v 1-13 The people again confront Moses
because there is no water to drink (v5).
V8 this time Moses is told to speak to the rock, but he
strikes the rock twice and water comes.
V12 Because Moses and Aaron, had not done as
commanded God, he tells them they will not take the
people into the Promised Land.
Duet 34 v 5-7 Moses dies without entering the land.
Christ in the Old Testament...
Rock
Why was God angry with Moses and Aaron? because they had
disobeyed God.
1 Corinthians 10 v 1–5 They were all baptized into Moses in the
cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank
the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock
that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless,
God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness.
Jesus was struck and died once for us on the cross, and from that
action we can receive the water/spirit of God.
Just pray/speak and you will receive.