Manna, a type of Christ

There is the initial act whereby we partake of Christ as the bread of life and receive eternal life. There is also the daily partaking of Him through the written Word for our spiritual food. This cannot be stored up just to be taken daily, even as

the Israelites took the manna daily in the wilderness.

 

          A great tragedy occurred along the way. Israel said, "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, the garlic: but now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna before our eyes: (Num. 11:5-6). They forgot the slavery, the hard taskmasters, and the bondage in Egypt. When they began to complain about God's provision, they wanted to satisfy their fleshly appetites. It is dangerous to look at and set our affections on temporal things, for we, too, will complain and lose our taste for the things of God.. 

 

          When Israel grew tired of the manna, "The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it" (Num. 11:8), but still they could not make it satisfying to themselves.

Today, some try to "doctor up" God's Word to make it palatable, but it just will not satisfy the worldly minded. The people cried out for meat, and God sent a wind which brought quail from the sea for them to eat. God said they were to eat it for a month until it came out of their nostrils and was loathsome to them. It did just that, and then God sent a plague upon them. The sad commentary on this whole incident is in Psalm 106:15: "And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul".

"Thy word was found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts" Jer 15:16

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The Pot of Manna. Why this?

          The golden pot of manna also was kept in the Ark. "And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept" (Ex. 16:33-34). The manna was the food God miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness. It was first given when they began to murmur for lack of food and complained to Moses. God gave them specific instructions about gathering the manna daily and not trying to keep any for the next day. Sure enough, some tried to keep it, but it became rotten (16:20). "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan" (v.35).

 

          Jesus said, "I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world (Jn. 6:48-51).

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Preservation of the articles in the Ark: What's inside

         Look now at the preservation within the Ark. "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee" (Ex. 25:16) Inside the Ark three things were kept as Israel traveled through the wilderness: "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant: (Heb. 9:4). It is time to see what these things meant to Israel and what they should mean to us today.

 

The Law

          First, there were the tables of the Law which God gave to Moses in the mountain. The first tables were broken by Moses when he came down from the mountain and saw that Israel was breaking the Law in worshiping the golden calf (Ex. 32:19). God told Moses to "hew...two tables...like unto the first; and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou breakest" (34:1). These tables were deposited within the Ark and kept there for years. Deuteronomy 31:24 says that after Moses finished writing the book of the Law, he instructed he Levites to put it in the Ark of the Covenant, "that it may be there for a witness against thee" (v.26).

 

          Two things are to be learned from all this. First, the Law was ever present to remind Israel that they had sinned and needed the blood-sprinkled Mercy Seat or they would be condemned. Years later when Josiah was king, the Law was found in the house of God and read. The king was convicted, as were all the people, and they repented, turned to the Lord, kept the Passover again, and saw revival.

 

          Second, the Law within the Ark speaks of Christ, who could say, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart" (Ps. 40:8). Again, "I do always those things which please him [my Father]" (Jn. 8:29). How wonderful it is to realize that "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth" (Rom. 10:4). He came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it for you and me. Now God looks at us as though we ourselves had kept the Law, for we are in Christ, and all that He accomplished is credited to us.

"For Christ in the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes" 1Cor 10:4

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