"Behold, I will stand before you on the rock at Horeh, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink."
It was pointed out to me in my notes (I love my ESV study Bible, thank you honey!) that this is an early foreshadowing of Jesus to come, our rock of salvation, from whence flows the water of life. What a great symbolic picture that paints.
Later, I came across Exodus 33:21-22.
"And the Lord said, 'Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by."
My notes didn't draw a connection here to this rock and Jesus, but with the other passage still so fresh in my mind I couldn't help but wonder. Isn't this a picture of a rock being the intercessor between us and God, to keep us from dying in the presence of the full glory of the Lord? Isn't that rather what Jesus is for us? Is it safe to say, then, that Jesus is the cleft of the rock we are hidden in to experience what we may of the splendor of God while still in this sinful and flawed form?
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