I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7 or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. 10 And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.
Tori's Comments:
I'm not exactly sure what this passage is warning us about. I understand that the beginning is meant to show that they 'followed God' and did what they assumed they were supposed to do, but how does that relate to the second half?
Terrie's Comments:
A couple of years ago I went through the old testament and was studying specifically where Jesus was throughout the Bible. It is amazing to me how many images of Christ there are in the old Testament, Like the rock who is referred to as Jesus. It is all relevant and reveals more about the character of God and specifically who Jesus is and what he accomplished in his time here on earth. I think it is amazing how harmonious the scriptures are.
As far as the second part of this passage is concerned I think humanly speaking first run through I am like "what were they thinking"... but then it quickly turns inward as I realize how quickly I too can be in a place of grumbling or questioning what God is doing in my life.
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