Numbers 20
2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
7And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his[Christ’s] water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 9And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. 12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify [TO SET APART,TO SEPERATE] me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. 13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified[SET APART, TO SEPERATE] in them.
Deuteronomy 32:48-52
48And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: 50And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified[TO SET APART, TO SEPERATE] me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Remember how in our original parents, Adam and Eve, we are all destined for hell because we are all born into original sin.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
The original sin is our iniquitie. And God hates iniquity, which is another word for sin.
Hebrews 1:9
9Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Romans 9:13
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated
Psalm 11:5
5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Just for being born, and being nice and humble and believing in God and doing good works, is not a precondition for salvatino, infact the bible says it is as “NOTHING” It is a selfish pridful mankind that thinks nowadays that they are to be destined for heaven just because they live pretty decent humble lives, and believe on the Lord. Well the same issue that is prevelaint today was the same back then. They felt they had the right to think and will and believe their own plan, that they deserved goodness and mercy and that it was due to them just because they were somewhat decent people and had hardships and even after God had showed them miracle after miacle, Aarons rod swollowing Pharaohs rods, the Ten plagues, Pharoah letting Israel go with a hard hand, Pharoah chasing Israel into the Red sea. Moses parting the Red Sea, the Mana from heaven, etc, etc. It was Gos pleasure to let the people go astray as was their will, and when Israel again would call on the name of God, then He would be right their with His awesom love. Everytime. In this instance, Moses struck the rock, who is Christ, twice, thereby killing Christ twice. This was a big error on Moses part, as he willfully disobeyed the command of God, regardless of all the righteous work Moses did. Which was really Gods work.
God was performing a miracle, Gods miracle, and this was in order to set God apart, to sanctify Himself to the people by being the Rock, by shedding the water, which is a parable for the blood of Christ being shed, and the command was the strick the rock once, that was enough to do the work, to pay for the sins, to die only once, However what Moses did was to say that God was not aware of the needs of Isreal and striking the rock once would not be enough, well that is unbelief and this takes glory away from God, who was to be sanctified and set apart for His children, though Israel obviously knew better and had other ideas. The punishement for Moses’s unbelief was to die before EnteringCanaan.
This is a parable, the rock is Christ, and He died for our sins, His blood was shed, and by His blood we are saved and sanctified by the blood of Christ, there is that word again, Sanctify. It is by the blood of Christ that we are sanctified, meaning we are set apart, meaning we are elect and chosen, which is another word for predestination, and all the work was done by Christ. We can look at this parable, which is an earthly story with a spiritual meaning, indeed Moses was the earthly story, the rock is the earthly story, the spiritual meaning points to Christ, and His Love for His chosen. Moses and Israel must not have believed that striking the rock once was adequate for their needs, they didn’t realize that this was a parable, however we do now, and the parable says that Christ needed to die and pay for our sins only once, and by His blood, which is the water of Life, we are sactified, cleaned and payed for, no other payment or additional payment required.
1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ
So even though Moses lost his life by disobeyeing God, we still see on the transfiguration that he is indeed still a saved man. He may have lost his physical life, but by the mercy of God he was given eternal life. Amen and God bless
