A Mighty Hand and An Outstretched Arm

God recalled this marvelous event in Deuteronomy 11:1-5 “Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, and his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day; and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place.”

Later, after their miraculous deliverance at the Red Sea, on their way to Mount Sinai the Israelites were refreshed when their tongues were parched, by water gushing from a rock, at the valley Rephidim. This pictured the stream of favor which continued with them throughout their wilderness journey. And it further foreshadowed the much greater refreshing which will ultimately come to them, and to all the world, through the sacrifice of Christ.

This stream of cool, refreshing water now refreshes Christ’s disciples throughout their wilderness journey, and eventually will refresh the whole world of mankind, including the Israelites. By Christ’s sacrificial death as the ransomer of Adam and his children, ‘the water of life’ will in due time be provided for all those who desire to be the people of God.