So, here we are. We're talking about the witness of the Old Testament to Christ. I'm just going to take a couple of minutes to review and then we'll look at some more passages. The question is how does the Old Testament point to Christ not just the prophetic sections that prophesy specifically about the Messiah being born in Bethlehem or Jesus' suffering in Isaiah 53 and things like that, but are there other things? Are there ways in the narratives in the Old Testament, the historical material, the stories where God was showing how he would work with people to redeem them in a preliminary way and that looked forward to what he would do in Christ in a more final way. And I mentioned that a lot of this is based on a book by a former professor of mine from Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Edmund Clowney, the book, The Unfolding Mystery, Discovering Christ in the Old Testament. So we said one approach to fitting the whole Bible together, systematic theology and other approaches, biblical theology, tracing historical development of themes through the Bible and we've been doing that for several weeks. And there are some examples just as when Paul says that Adam was a type, a pattern, a model of the one who was to come. And so are there other things in the Old Testament that are types or patterns of Jesus? And Edmund Clowney said a type is a form of analogy. It's like an analogy. It's a form of analogy distinctive to the Bible and it combines identity and difference. And so first Peter said the Old Testament prophets were serving us in what they wrote. Now the goal is to view every text in the light of the sweep of what's happening from Genesis to Revelation. And we took some examples from the Old Testament last week, Adam and Eve, Adam being a ruler and ruling over the earth, but Jesus would be the greater ruler. Jesus would have, Adam was in the image of God, Jesus would be more fully in the image of God and perfectly show who God was. And there were some other themes like that. We looked at the themes in the fall and we looked at the themes in Canaan Abel. Now that's where we work. Now I want to go on and look at the question of Noah and the flood, which you probably, if you if you were a child growing up in Sunday school, you remember hearing this story about all the animals coming into the ark and the flood coming on the earth and all the earth being destroyed and the Noah and his family being saved. I've just put some verses here that give us an overview of the story that is in Genesis 6, 7, 8, and 9. Genesis 6, 5, the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth, man in animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens for I'm sorry that I made them, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God and Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and J-Peth. So God tells Noah to build this ark and God saw the earth and behold it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth and God said to Noah, I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth, make for yourself an ark of Goverwood, make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with pitch. For behold I will bring a flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven everything that is on the earth shall die but I will establish my covenant with you and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. And if every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you they shall be male and female. And then in Genesis 7 we read about the flood actually happening. In the sixth hundredth year of Noah's life in the second month on the 17th day of the month on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth and the windows of the heavens were opened and rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights on the very same day. Noah and his sons, Shem, Hammond, J.Peth and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark. So we have eight people going into the ark Noah and his wife and three sons and three daughters in law making the eight persons that entered into the ark on the day that the fountains of the great deep burst and the windows of the heavens were open and the flood comes on the earth. An all flesh died that moved on the earth. Birds livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth and all mankind. He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth only Noah was left and those who were with him in the ark. Now what I want us to do in passages like this is to say, now let's reflect on what are the themes, what are the major themes that are going on in this passage? Well one theme certainly is that there's God's judgment on sin. Another theme is that God rescues some people from judgment. Some that found grace or favor in the sight of the Lord. And I think there's something else going on here. As it turned out, there was only one way to be saved from that flood and that was to be in the ark. The ark only had one door actually and they had to enter into that door in the way that God had told them and the ark that saved the people also passed through the waters of judgment because here the waters really are, waters of judgment. They're coming to destroy all life on the earth. Now the question is, if we look at those themes, do they in fact cause us then to look forward to something greater that this isn't the end of the story of what God is going to do on the earth? There's something more coming. This isn't the end of the Bible. Now we know in retrospect because you know there was that promise that there'd be a seed of the woman that would bruise the head of the serpent and in the evil wouldn't triumph on the earth ultimately. And you just begin to wonder, here God's destroying all the human race except these eight people and he's kind of flooding the earth has God given up on his purpose that there would be human beings in his image ruling over the earth and that the earth that he started with was very good and it was pleasant in his sight and it was pleasing to him. Now he's just destroying it. Is this really the end or is there something greater coming? So do these themes look forward to anything else? Well I think with the benefit of the New Testament now we can see that this wasn't the end the Bible went on beyond that but it also is a prediction that it wasn't the end of the blessings but it also wasn't the end of the judgments and so I think we can see in this some themes that look forward in this way. God's judgment on sin when we see it we should remember that a final judgment is coming that God takes sin seriously and there will be a final accounting for sin and so we could trace judgments through the Bible. First God's judgment on the sin of Adam and Eve and cursing of the earth and casting them out of the garden and they set they began to age and eventually they would die. Then there was you have a judgment here in the flood leader you have a judgment of fire and brimstone or fire and sulfur coming from heaven and Sodom and Gomorrah. You have the people of Israel coming in judgment on the Canaanites and destroying them in the city of Jericho that is burned with fire and those all look forward to a final judgment that is going to come one day when God in fact will judge the whole earth but will anybody be saved? Well in the final judgment that is coming God rescued his people from judgment in the flood. He rescued Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot's children. He rescued when when the people of Israel came into the land of Canaan and they destroyed the city of Jericho and they burned the city with fire yet there was a remnant saved out. God rescued a small number rescued Rahab and her family so there's a pattern God brings judgment but then he saves his people and we can trace that and we can look forward to the final judgment. God rescues his people from judgment throughout history and he will again rescue us from final judgment and we'll be kept safe. In the ark there was only one way to be saved that was to get into the ark and if you didn't do he didn't do what God said and get into the ark and Noah was preaching and he was warning people but they laughed at him and they didn't think that they didn't take his warning seriously but then the judgment came and then it was too late. So God provides the way of salvation and I think that we look forward as well that in a larger sense in a even in terms of eternal salvation God will provide the way. Now we looked at the Adam and Eve story and Adam as Paul says in Romans Adam was a type of Christ. He looked forward to Christ and there's parallel between Adam and Christ made in the New Testament. We looked at the Canaan Abel story. Cane killed his brother Abel Abel to offer a more acceptable sacrifice. Abel really was a type of Christ. He's looking forward to Christ because he offered an acceptable sacrifice. Jesus would come and offer a more acceptable sacrifice. Abel was killed by his brother though he was righteous. Jesus was killed by his own people or sentenced or delivered to death by his own people even though he was righteous so Abel looks forward to Christ but the book of Hebrews says that the blood of Jesus speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel so there's a tie in there. But is it only people who look forward to Christ? What is happening here in the story of the ark? What is it that saves the people from judgment? In fact it's the ark isn't it? It's the ark that saves them from judgment and you think of the ark when it's sitting there and all of a sudden all the waters of judgment come on the ark. The ark protects the people. So in a way I think the ark is it's not a person it's an object but it's looking forward to the ark that saves them also passes through the waters of judgment. It's looking forward to the fact that a greater savior is coming who will bear a greater punishment and bring not just this salvation from drowning but an eternal salvation. So in a way I think the ark is prefiguring Christ. Interesting.
We go over to the New Testament and first Peter comments Noah and the flood. It says this. First Peter 318 for Christ also suffered once for sins. The righteous for the unrighteous that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison because they formerly did not obey when God's patience waited. Now here we go. In the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared in which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through water. Baptism which corresponds to this now saves you not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. What? What does that mean? Baptism corresponds to Noah and his family being saved through water and when you think about it look at this. I'm not going to get in because there's water in here but this is a baptismal tank. You believe it? There's water in there and people are baptized maybe later today. People are baptized. They go down into the water and when you think of that image of the flood going down under the water is an image of death, isn't it? Just like the waters of the Red Sea drowned the Egyptians. It's like the waters of the Jordan river where water but Israelites were brought safely through. Jonah being cast into the waters is being cast down into the depths of the sea, cast into his death into his death. So the flood waters are surely waters of judgment and I think baptism then is a sign not only of being buried with Christ and raised with him but it's a sign of passing through waters of judgment safely. Picture. How can you pass through those waters of judgment safely? You have to be what's the only thing that can keep you from judgment? It's Jesus, isn't it? You have to be in Christ. You have to be united with him so that he was put to death and raised so we can be put to death and raised but but we're joined with him but we pass through judgment safely and so Peter knows that and he says baptism is like going through the flood. Baptism which corresponds to this now saves you. What does that mean? We don't think baptism saves you. Do we in this church? I hope not. But the answer to many questions of biblical interpretation is finished the sentence and here Peter explains baptism saves you and he says, now wait a minute, not just the physical activity of cleansing your body, you go into the water and the dirt washes off. It's not just the physical action but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, how does baptism save you in your heart? You're asking God please forgive my sins and that faith that's in your heart as an appeal to God for a good conscience. That's what saves you. It's the inward spiritual reality, not the physical action that saves you. It's the inward spiritual reality that baptism represents and that accompanies baptism. That's what saves you. In other words the faith that you have and the asking for forgiveness of sins and it's through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So Peter I think is saying that baptism is like that being baptized is like going through the waters of the flood. In both cases you come safely through judgment and it's arc anticipated Christ so now Christ keeps us safe in baptism. What do you think about that? I want to talk about that for a minute. Any questions? Do you ever think of the flood that way? It is judgment, surely it's judgment isn't it? And surely they're kept safe by something that God provides. Yeah.
No, I don't think because and I just repeat for the tape Mark is saying the people use the flood as indicating God is responsible for evil. No because he brings judgment on it and not on himself. And so the blame for sin in the Bible beginning to end is always put on the human beings who sin or the angels or demons who sin. Angels become demons by sin. Okay well should we try another one?
Let's try. Oh I'll just mention this one briefly. Here is Abraham again this theme of the seed or the offspring of the woman is carried forward in Abraham, Genesis 15, 1 to 6. The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. If you're not Abram I'm your shield, your reward shall be very great. But Abram said oh Lord God what will you give me before I continue childless? And the heir of my house is Aliezer of Damascus. And Abram said behold you've given me no offspring and remember my household will be my heir and behold the word of the Lord came to him this man shall not be your heir. Your very own son shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said look toward heaven and number the stars. If you are able to number them then he said so shall your offspring be. And he believed the Lord and he counted it to him as righteousness. There's a promise of a son who's going to be the heir and this idea of an offspring of the woman who's going to bring salvation. The thing here is that it's long delayed. Abraham is 90 when he gets the promise he has to wait another 10 years till his son is born and I think God is teaching us through this that he's teaching us to be patient. And to trust him though his promise is delayed the fulfillment of it it will still be fulfilled. And so I don't have that picture up here that I did the last time Genesis to Revelation. But what's happening as we go from Genesis Exodus to Viticus numbers we're looking forward there's a there's a Messiah coming there's the seed of the woman and it's going to come through Abraham and it's going to come through Abraham's son Isaac but it's delayed and so we wait. Trusting in God that he will bring about his purposes so so there's a promise that's being carried forward and that theme is going through the whole Old Testament and then and then it's going to be the offspring the son is going to ultimately result in a great nation and all the nations of the earth we bless through him. Well now what happens when Isaac is born finally Abraham and Sarah are so happy overjoyed because of the miraculous birth of Isaac when they were passed the when Sarah was passed the child bearing age and the book of Hebrews says by faith Sarah herself received power to conceive as she trusted in God's promise and and her faith is held up as an example for us. So now Isaac begins to grow and we don't know how old he is maybe just a young teenager or so and then this great test comes and it's a test it's a test of how can God fulfill his promise if Isaac doesn't live because we're supposed to have a great nation and offspring as many as the stars of heaven coming through Isaac but now what could happen here after these things God tested Abraham and said to him Abraham and he said here am I he said take your son your only son Isaac whom you love your son your only son Isaac whom you love now he had another son ischmial but it was not his son by Sarah and so here's his kind of his son by his by his wife and in that sense it's his only son his only son according to the promise that God had given and according to his marriage your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you incredible that God would ask this of the promise son that they had waited so long for the one through whom the promises would come the one through whom the Messiah would come who knows is he even the Messiah but how could that be so God says go offer him as a burnt offering and just incredible agony of mind Abraham must have gone through but Abraham rose early in the morning saddle is donkey and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac and he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar then Abraham said to his young men stay here with the donkey I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you and this verb will worship is plural and this verb will come again is plural in Hebrew I and the boy will come again to you interesting and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son and he took in his hand the fire and the knife so they went both of them together and Isaac said to his father Abraham my father and he said here am I my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering Abraham said God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son but you must imagine his heart must have been in his throat as he said this because he didn't know so they went both of them together would Abraham actually have to obey would God ask him to go through with this when they came to the place of which God had told him Abraham built the altar and there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son but the angel of the Lord called to him from from heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I he said do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him for now I know that you fear God seeing you have not withheld your son your only son from me and Abraham looked lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son so Abraham called the name of that place the Lord will provide as is said to this day on the mount of the Lord it shall be provided now what do we have for themes here if we can talk in more general terms what what is happening well one theme is that a father offers his son his only son whom he loves
and another theme that is happening is that the father receives his son back from near death
but another thing is we think about the passage is that the sacrifice of this son was not sufficient to pay for anyone's sins how do we know that because God didn't require it he didn't accept it I think I think we all we all are guilty before God God has the right to require our lives of any one of us the wages of sin is debt so at any moment God could require our lives and I suppose that God had the right to require Isaac's life because Isaac Michael rest of us had sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and perhaps Abraham realized that but then the idea of a burnt offering a sacrifice implies that there must be some payment for sins but but this wasn't to be the payment God said no the sacrifice of this son was not sufficient to pay for anyone's sin in fact God himself provides the sacrifice for sins and just one historical note if you read in the kind of technical literature a number of geographers think that Mount Mariah that Abraham went to is likely the location where Jerusalem was later built now what are these themes indicate to us are you beginning to get we get an idea of what's happening here what is God teaching Abraham about the love of a father for his son and then the cost that must involve for a father to give up his son what is God teaching all of us about the need for a sacrifice for sin but this sacrifice was not sufficient I think we can look at those themes and see out with the benefit of the New Testament we see fulfillment first of all a father offers his son his only son whom he loves and I think this looks forward to the fact that in in the years to come a greater father will offer his son his only son whom he loves and what does John 3 16 say for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life and in the Abraham and Isaac story Abraham the father received his son back from near death I think that is in a way pointing forward to the greater son will die and be raised from the dead in fact Hebrews 11 17 says this story is a foreshadowing of resurrection by faith Abraham when he was tested offered up Isaac and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son of whom it was said through Isaac shall your offspring be named he considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead from which figuratively speaking he did receive him back so Isaac is a type of Christ Isaac is looking forward to Christ and Abraham is in this story acting the role of God the father who gave his only son whom he loved the sacrifice of Isaac was not sufficient to pay for anyone sins but that when something doesn't work it doesn't it doesn't really succeed then it causes us to look forward to the fact that this greater son sacrifice will be sufficient there will be a sacrifice that's much better than the sacrifice that didn't happen the sacrifice of Isaac God himself provides the sacrifice for sins with the ram caught in the thicket for Abraham and I think that looks forward to the fact that God himself will provide this future sacrifice the sacrifice of his own son so Abraham's words God himself will provide the sacrifice my son our fulfilled in a way probably much greater than Abraham could have understood and when we realized that Mount Moriah is likely the location where Jerusalem was later built we then read again here in Genesis so Abraham called the name of the Lord the name of that place the Lord will provide as it is said to this day on the mount of the Lord it shall be provided in fact in this very place where the city of Jerusalem was built now we see in fulfillment that God's own son would die on this mountain or this geographical location and I think that helps us then make sense of what Jesus said in John 856 your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day he saw it and was glad I think Jesus is saying that when Abraham reflected back on those events of that incredibly difficult day in his life and then the great joy that God had provided the sacrifice and then God said I know that you fear me you've not withheld your son your only son from me received his son back that Abraham must have realized that God's going to do something better than this there's a greater sacrifice coming there's a greater son that will be sacrificed Abraham in a way figuratively or looking forward by thinking on those events saw Christ day and was glad what do you think about that yeah oh my goodness I'm gonna just repeat as you say Isaac helped carry the wood as Jesus carried his cross hadn't thought of that but maybe the young teenager I'm not sure if we know but yeah interesting so Isaac perhaps probably man I don't know maybe submitted willingly because he could have resisted and Abraham was old interesting thanks
amazing foreshadowing isn't it yeah what's your name Rosemary yes and we were returning somehow he had such faith that he knew that even if he took his son's life guard would bring him back somehow God is gonna fulfill his promise I don't know what he I mean he must have thought Lord I don't know what's gonna happen I don't know what's gonna happen but I know that you're gonna fulfill your promise so it was amazing amazing yeah okay should we go to another story I didn't get all the verses out here but remember the story where Joseph where he had he had all his brothers of the 12 tribes of Israel his 11 brothers and but he was the one that was loved by his father well I guess they're ten because I don't know maybe Benjamin was born then Benjamin was younger I can't remember but anyway the other tribes of Israel and and he was favored by his father and his father gave him a coat of many colors and the sons were the other brothers were jealous of this and then and then Joseph goes and has these dreams of all his brothers bowing down to him and all this and of course that doesn't make them very happy finally they just get rid of the troublesome little kid and throw him into the pit and they're gonna leave him for dead and then they decide to sell him to these traders who carry him off to Egypt so he's betrayed into slavery and again I think Joseph is a type of Christ he's in many ways looks forward to Christ but here are some examples he's the son who is loved by his father but he is betrayed by his brothers Jesus was the son beloved by his father Jesus was of course betrayed by his own people Joseph was sold into slavery Jesus was delivered up today but then Joseph after he goes to Egypt is exalted to the right hand of Pharaoh to rule over the whole kingdom and and so Jesus will be exalted at the right hand of the true king the king of heaven and earth to rule over the kingdoms of the world the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ and just as Joseph by his rule have people you know he bought for Pharaoh all the or taxed for Pharaoh all the grain of the seven years of prosperity so then the seven years of famine then people had food to eat and so by Joseph's rule he saved not only the people of his nation but the other nations from death and he brought blessing to the nation so Jesus by his rule will bring a greater salvation to the nation save them from eternal death and bring blessing to all nations when he reigns as king at the right hand of God the father who sits on the throne so Joseph in many ways looks forward to who Jesus would be his humiliation his suffering and then his exaltation what's your name oh yeah good Joseph was tempted by Potter for his wife but he resisted temptation a picture of Jesus being tempted but also resisted temptation good so he's a picture of purity and obedience there so a lot of foreshadowing of what the Messiah would be and remember clowny said and I think this is right a type combines similarities and differences so there are similarities but then he's still Joseph doesn't bring eternal salvation he's just a foreshadowing okay Joseph reveals himself to his brothers not maybe do that next time I'm not sure let's try one more here water from the rock I just came to this passage in my own reading the Bible this morning but let's let's read through it this is after the people of Israel have come out of the land of Egypt Moses has led them Pharaoh has finally let them go and they're out in the wilderness and all the congregation the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of sin by stages according that's that just happens to sound like our word sin there's no connection the wilderness of sin by stages according to the commandment of the Lord and and camped at refideme but there was no water for the people to drink think Arizona desert no water therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said give us water to drink and Moses said to them why do you quarrel with me why do you test the Lord but the people thirsted there for water and the people grumbled against Moses and said why do you bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children our livestock with thirst so Moses cried to the Lord what shall I do with this people they're almost ready to stone me and the Lord said to Moses pass on before the people taking with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck an aisle and go behold I will stand before you there on the rock at Horib and you shall strike the rock and water shall come out of it and the people will drink and Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel and he called the name of the place Massa and Meribah because of the quarreling of the people of Israel and because they tested the Lord by saying is the Lord among us or not now Edmund Ploney who wrote this book the unfolding mystery did some work on on this on the Hebrew phrase for stand before I will stand before you there and he says it's the only time in the Old Testament where God says he will stand before someone the other times that this particular phrase is used it's someone standing before a judge or someone standing before God to be judged and so he says it's a legal setting and in fact Moses comes with the elders as kind of a courtroom setting and amazingly God says I will stand before you there where on the rock so God says Moses you're going to take the place of judge and I'm going to take the place of the accused person who stands before the judge and I will stand on the rock being willing to accept the judgment the people are complaining the people are grumbling they are the people who are sinful they're not trusting but God says you know what they're sinful but I'll stand in judgment and I will take the judgment and then God says to Moses and you shall strike the rock oh when God is standing on it you take your staff and you strike the rock that's like hitting God can you imagine that Moses must have trembled as he did that how could he do this but God told him to so he obeyed he struck the rock and as in a figurative way God accepted the judgment for the people sin life giving water poured forth out of the rock to bring in a sense physical salvation to the people but a figure of eternal salvation where is Christ in this interesting interesting is the rock just as the ark was a picture of Christ is the rock a picture of Christ taking the judgment of the judge taking the punishment I think it is but now look what happens at a later point in the journey of the people of Israel I think this helps understand helps us understand a puzzling passage why you say why did Moses not get to go into the promised land for this incident but I think when we understand what's going on we see why and the Lord said to Moses take the staff and assemble look this again they're out in the wilderness again and they're still they're thirsty again they're out of water same deal but now this is a later event take the staff and assemble the congregation before you you and Aaron your brother and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water he doesn't say strike the rock again you just said speak to it and the water will come forth so you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle and Moses took the staff from before the Lord as he commanded him then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock so you get all the people of Israel out there and he said to them here now you rebels shall we bring forth water for we shall we bring water for you out of this rock Moses isn't having a really good day here now you rebels and Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice and water came out of Bonifold he struck the rock twice he had not been commanded to do so
it's as if he's striking God in anger isn't it can you imagine that he would do that instead of just speaking to it and the congregation drank and their livestock there was grace from God and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron because you did not believe in me to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel if he had upheld God as holy if he had honored God and reverenced him he never would have struck that rock but Moses was frustrated with God he was angry with God and he lashed out in anger you did not believe in me to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them these are the waters of Maraba or the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord and through them he showed himself holy you understand why now Moses it's amazing God didn't take Moses life just instantly he said well no Moses you're not you're not the Messiah even you have sinned in your life and because you've not honored me reverenced me because in anger you struck out as if you were hitting me you will not leave the people into the land no I think this helps us to understand what Paul meant when Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1014 talking about these two incidents Paul says they all drank the same spiritual drink the people of Israel and they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them and the rock was Christ does that make sense now that's how Paul understands Paul had insight into that and he understood what in fact God was teaching his people as the rock was a type of Christ look forward to Christ God himself taking the judgment what do you think about that Sandy what does it mean the rock followed them I think I don't think the yeah yeah I think that the that God's spiritual presence in the rock was in one place and then was another so and how how could it be one rock and then another rock well Paul was saying the rock was Christ who was going with him I don't think it was one rock that kind of rolled up no yeah I forgot your name Lynn yeah oh yeah you did the announcement at the beginning yeah
yeah the one I'm using English standard version yeah it is what is it exodus verse 6 exodus 176 the old I will stand before you there on the rocket horror the Hebrew word is all it's a it's a it's a it's a kind of a guttural stop a backwards a backwards of a apostrophe and then a l and it means on okay you know behold I will stand lift me lift makeup before you there on the rock and yeah I don't know what the NIV was doing there they must have said I don't know I'll stand by the rock I know but the words don't mean that and maybe that's an example of of the NIV some versions try to say well let's make it understandable for people and and so that's kind of an illustration of a difference between a word for word translation where a word for word translation says if the word says on translate on even if you don't understand quite what it's about make it beyond and and a more dynamic equivalent or paraphrase translation says how could how could God be on the rock maybe God was by the rock but mistake I think King James says I will stand before the there upon the rock the just a minute just taking a minute the Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Old Testament that Jewish people used that's epi on on the rock and the new American standard is for sure going to say on stand before you there on the rock new American standard it's a word for word translation so was the King James the new King James I'm pretty sure it's going to be on the rock so anyway thanks Lynn okay shantel
eesv is English standard version yeah but the the essentially literal or word for word translations are all going to all going to be fair and accurate on this all means on English standard version the new American standard the new King James King James so Holman Christian standard yeah what's your name yeah no epi is not by epi is upon or on the Greek word and all is on now I mean that word must occur three four thousand times in the Old Testament so maybe somebody can dig up some strange occurrence but but normally it's the word that means honor upon I don't think they was get the idea and they're they're not as the NIV is not as careful with individual words and the new living and the message are even more free and more paraphrased so and sometimes you don't know what meaning you're missing so okay well let's see where we are get 922 water from the rock water from the rock they drank okay well let's see I've got three minutes left I don't know if I should do Jericho or not what do you know what Jericho is kind of a long story oh it's a long I'm not can't do it yep yeah so we should get out let me and I didn't I forgot to put it we've been singing a lot of times but I forgot to get a transparency of him so I'm going to miss that today and um why don't I pray and our Lord and God we give you thanks throughout your word you have been showing us that you provide the way of salvation you provided the ark and then the ark bore the waters of judgment you provided the sacrifice that was there instead of Isaac and the sacrifice look forward to the sacrifice of your son and you stood before the people on the rock and you took the judgment that they deserved and abundant waters of salvation and life came forth so Lord we thank you Lord God we give you praise for your good work in your word before your good work among your people throughout history that all of this look forward to our Savior Jesus and whom all the promises of God are yes and amen and so we give you thanks thank you that you did not spare your son your only son whom you love what gave him up for us all so go with us this week teach us in your word as we read help us to trust you as Abraham did I was to be faithful to you in all that you command us to do that we might honor you and bring you glory through our lives amen see you next week Jericho and a few more