Exodus 15-16
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Intro- Following the Red Sea being parted and the Israelites being free, we continue the story of Exodus.
Following God delivering Israel from the armies of Pharaoh they began to praise God
Essentially this is a really long song, that Moses sang recounting all that God had done for them.
22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
Following their departure from the Red Sea they began their wilderness wanderings they traveled for 3 days without water.
They came to a place called “Marah” which literally means bitterness.
24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
As soon as the Israelites faced their first sign of trouble after the Red Sea, the began to complain.
The water was likely bitter because it had high amounts of mineral deposits. Not harmful to drink, just unpleasant.
God showed Moses a log (we don’t know what kind) but he threw it in the water and it became sweet.
25 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, 26 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
Notice the test of God. He wanted them to diligently listen and keep all of his laws and statutes.
God gave a promise, If they would do this, He would not do to them, what He did to the Egyptians.
1 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Only 1 month has passed since they left Egypt and the people have begun another round of complaining.
They began to reminisce about how “good” they had it in Egypt. and how now, they were going to die of hunger.
4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”
God gave instructions regarding the bread from heaven. He wanted them to know that on the 6th day, there would be twice as much bread because, on the 7th day, they were to rest.
16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’ ”
each person was to take an “omer” some have suggested it was about a cup, some have suggested it was a gallon. We really aren’t sure of the exact measurement.
They were to eat all of it that day and not save any of it (V.19)
This likely had nothing to do with the bread going bad (since on day 6 God gave them twice as much) It was a test of their faith, knowing that as they ate all the bread, they would have to rely on God tomorrow.
20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23 he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’ ” 24 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.
Here they we able to keep the bread overnight to wait until the next day, It did not go bad, because they were obedient to God.
27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Some of the people still couldn’t follow directions and went out on the morning of the sabbath.
32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”
Once again, we see God instituting another memorial.
Application:
In chapter 15, the Israelites found water that was bitter to the taste and God made it sweet. God has a way of turning even bad things into good.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
In we find that those who complained against Moses were actually complaining against God.
8 And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”
So many times we think that complaining is harmless, when in fact it is condemned and it is sinful.
14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
Jesus is the true bread of life.
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
The difference is that those who partake in Jesus never have to again. These Israelites had to eat the manna every single day.