Living waters

THE TEN TRIALS – Trial - THE LIVING WATERS
Exodus 17:1… There was no water for the people to drink... and they complained against Moses
And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river. I will stand before you there on the rock between you and Mount Sinai; and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may have water.” So he called the name of the place Massah (testing) and Meribah (dissatisfaction), because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord’s presence among us or not?” That was the real test and the real complaint!

1Corinthians 10:1 I don’t want you to forget about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago.. . All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that traveled with them, and that Rock was Christ. These things were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age so that we would not crave evil things as they did.

So from Christ our Rock pours forth the water (The Holy Spirit) satisfying thirst and giving life.
So what is God saying to us here?
GOD IS SAYING THAT HE WILL JUST KEEP SHOWING UP FOR US. BUT HE WANTS TO GIVE US A HUNGER AND A THIRST FOR HIM.
John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

JESUS AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES (Jesus prophetically fulfilled all the feasts of Israel)
John 7:37 On that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink, he who believes in Me.” As the Scripture has said, “Out of His heart will flow rivers of living water.” (The Temple Ezek 47, and the Rock Exodus 17, Zech 14). He was speaking of the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive (embrace)

The activities of the FEAST OF TABERNACLES were something to make a song and dance about

1. The ceremonial drawing of water each morning from the pool of Siloam (reflected in 7:37-38)
2. A reminder of the water that came from the rock smitten by Moses, when the people were in danger of perishing from thirst (Exod 17:1-6)
3. A golden pitcher was filled with water and carried back to the temple.
4. Trumpet blasts and singing of Isaiah 12:3, "With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation."
5. A chosen priest ascended the altar then the priest called for people to come and get the water.

When Jesus "stood and cried out" at that moment when the priest at the altar lifted up his hand to signify the calling to come and get the water, the effect of the cry on the multitude would have been as a thunderclap from heaven. Everybody would have known whose cry it was, and many would have seen its significance, namely that Jesus had come to embody all that past experience in the wilderness. (vs. 40 Surely this is the Prophet etc.) The police officers said ‘no one has ever spoken like this man. Nicodemus defended Jesus saying the Law couldn’t judge unless people have heard what the man has to say. Jesus had turned their historic feast into a proclamation of their (and our) salvation, our present faith, and our future hope, an astounding fulfillment of prophecy.