EXODUS CHAPTER 17 - 17:8

EXODUS  CHAPTER  14

 14:30 - Redemption: ( EXODUS  type ) Summary. Exodus is the book of redemption, and teaches: 
( 1 ). -  redemption is wholly of God (EXODUS  3:7__8;  JOHN  3:16 );
( 2 ). - redemption is through a person ( EXODUS  2:2;  JOHN  3:16__17 ).
( 3 ). - redemption is by blood ( EXODUS  12:13,  23,  27;  1  PETER  1:18 ); 
( 4 ). - redemption is by power ( EXODUS  6:6;  13:14;  ROMANS  8:2 ).
The blood of Christ redeems the believer from the guilt and penalty of sin ( 1  PETER  1:18 ) as the power of the Spirit delivers from the dominion  of sin  ( ROMANS  8:2;  EPHESIANS  2:2 ).

CHAPTER  15

 15:25 - These bitter waters were in the very path of the Lord's leading, and stand for the trials of God's people, which were educatory and not punitive. The "tree" is the cross ( GALATIANS  3:13 ), which became sweet to Christ as the expression of the Father's will ( JOHN  8:11 ). When our Marahs are so taken we cast the "tree" into the waters ( ROMANS  5:3__4 ).

 CHAPTER  16

 16:35 - Manna, type of Christ as "the bread of life," come down from heaven to die "for the life of the world" ( JOHN  6:35;  48__51 ). A "small" thing ( EXODUS  16:14 ), having but the taste of "fresh oil" ( NUMBER  11:8 ), or "wafers with honey" ( EXODUS  16:31 ), it typifies Christ in humiliation as presented in Matthew, Mark, and Luke; "having no form nor comeliness; . . . no beauty that we should desire him" ( ISAIAH  53:2 ). But as such He must be received by faith if we would be saved ( JOHN  6:53__58 ). To meditate upon Christ as He went about among men, doing not His own will but the will of the Father ( JOHN  638__40 ), is to feed on the manna. This is, of necessity, the spiritual food of young believers, and answers to milk" ( 1  CORINTHIANS  3:1__2 ). But Christ in glory, and the believer's present and eternal association with Him there, answers to "the old corn of the land" ( JOSHUA  5:11 ), the "meat" of Hebrews  5:13__14, or Christ as presented in the Epistles of Paul  2  Corinthians  5:16.

 EXODUS  CHAPTER  17

 17:6 - The rock, type of life through the Spirit b y grace:
( 1 ). - Christ the  Rock ( 1  CORINTHIANS  10:4 ).
( 2 ). - The people utterly unworthy ( EXODUS  17:2;  EPHESIANS  2:1__6 ).
( 3 ). - Characteristics of life through grace: 
( a ). - free ( JOHN  :410;  ROMANS  6:23;  EPHESIANS  2:8 );
( b ). - abundant ( ROMANS  5:20  PSALM  105:41; JOHN  3:16)   
( c ). - near ( ROMANS  10:8 );
( d ). - the people had only to take ( ISAIAH  55:1 ) The smitten_rock aspect of the death of Christ looks toward the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit as a result of accomplished redemption, rather than toward our guilt. It is the affirmative side of John  3:16. " Not perish" speaks of atoning blood; "but have" speaks of life bestowed.

 17:8 - Amalek, grandson of Esau ( GENESIS  36:12 ), who was "born after the flesh" ( GALATIANS  4:22__29 ) and progenitor of the Amalekites, Israel's persistent enemy, is a type of the flesh in the believer ( GALATIANS  4:29 ). But the conflict with Amalek in chapter  17  sets forth the resources of the man under law, rather than those of the believer under grace. The man under law could fight and pray ( Verses  9__12 ) Under grace the Holy Spirit gains the victory over the flesh in the believer's behalf ( ROMANS  8:2__4;  GALATIANS  5:16__17 ); but this victory is only as the believer walks in the Spirit Acting in dependency or disobedience, Amalek gains an easy victory ( NUMBERS  14:42__45 ). Like Saul we are prone to spare the flesh ( 1  SAMUEL  15:8__9 ), forgetting Romans  7:18  "Flesh,"  John  1:13;  Jude  23. 

 18:19 - Numbers  11:14__17. Jehovah entirely ignored this worldly-wise organization, substituting His own order.

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