The Waters of mirabah
Exodus 15:22-27
What may be the spiritual meaning to be taken from that passage and applied to our lives?
The waters were bitter which to some degree could be a reflection of the Israelites disposition after having left Egypt and compared to their livng conditions would may have seen to be a little cosier in hindsight, though many of them
were the israelites who were mostly the slaves though others escaped with them as recorded in Exodus 12:38. were a mixed multitude that had left Egypt. Exodus 12:38. And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. As some were slaves under some quite brutal taskmasters while living in Egypt in the land of Goshen. Exodus of which many had
seemed to have forgoten, hence in Father Gods in His mercy made a way of escape through the leadership of Moses while travelling through the desert to the promised land of Canaan, and had been traveling for quite some time, in the wilderness during which some
were begining to wish they never left and perpaps feeling a little bitter in the wilderness after having left Egypt to be led in following Moses in travelling into and through the wilderness to the promised land of Caanan of which by this
time were quite thirsty as were probably their flocks an cattle too. In Father Gods infinite mercy prompted Moses to look at a tree and in doing so Mose broke a branch and placed it in the
water and the water was made sweet]
A branch in the OT was often referrred to as Jesus who was refered as the branch as recorded in Isaiah 11:1Isaiah 11:1 King James Version 11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the the branch Moses placed in the water made the bitter water sweet.
Water could perhaps be represented as life, and one cannot survive with out fluid that of which often is water.
Jesus as referred to the branch in Isaiah 11:1 who was broken on the cross for us, gives one a new life through after His resurrection and ascenion the gift of the Holy Spirit of reffered to as the water of life fas mentioned in John 4:4-42 especially verse 10 -14.
also water can represent life and also the Holy Spirit too as mentioned in John 4:10-14
John 4:10-14. King James Version
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Hence in Moses placing the branch broken from the tree and placed into the water to make it sweet could be seen as as prophetic in the light of a branch broken of a tree and placed in the water to make it sweet as Jesus being broken on the cross for us and doing so by believing in and accepting Jesus sacrifice can and does make ones life that on looking back could be seen as bitter for many, made sweet through receiving the gift of the Holy spirit for which often is represented as water as mentiond in John 4:10. living water from which one is refreshed in an ongoing away unlike the Israelites who were refreshed for that moment in timem in drinking that water one and Even Jeus would have been from drinking from the well as recorded in John4:6-14. for that moment in time, but in receiving the new life in Jeusus and the water of Life which is the Holy Spirit one is refreshed in an on going way that blesses those close and dear to one and further afield in Father Gods infinite mercy in allowing Jesus as the branch broken for us then through accpeting Jesus gives one new life through the gift of the Holy Spirit that makes ones life sweet in Jesus being resuurrecing and asscending in to Heaven
26.2.2021.
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