Reading on the Patterns of Evidence web site on the next project, is a note about Israel having camped in Jordan at Petra, and that being the site where Moses struck the rock to give water to Israel.
Numbers 20:7-11
7 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron. And speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water; and you shall bring water out of the rock to them; so you shall water the congregation and their animals.
9 And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as He commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock. And he said to them, Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring forth water to you out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and smote the rock with his rod twice; and much water came out; and the congregation and their animals drank.
Two Bookends
In studying eschatology, one of the threads of thought is the congruence
between the Exodus of Israel from Egypt and the start of the Mosaic
covenant and the Exodus from the Promised Land of Israel of the followers of the Messiah Jesus and the start
of the New Covenant.
The reference to Israel camped at Petra, receiving life giving water before entering into the Promised Land, connects like one bookend, with the remnant of Israel, who followed the Messiah, living physical Jerusalem and the physical promised land, to camp in Petra, Jordan during the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.
Bookend events. With the camping of the people of the covenant kingdom at Petra. Before the start of the Mosaic covenant kingdom and at the end of the Mosaic covenant kingdom, and the start of the Messianic covenant kingdom.
Before the Mosaic covenant kingdom the people receive water from a physical rock in the desert of Jordan at Petra.
At the start of the Messianic covenant kingdom, the people once again are camping at Petra, but their life giving water is the spiritual water from God through the Messiah Jesus, the water of life.
Reading the end of the Revelation of Jesus the Messiah/Christ, we find the description of the New Jerusalem which is the bride of Christ, the people of the new covenant kingdom. Within this description is that of the water of life, flowing from the throne of God and the Messiah.
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Here is the final and spiritual water from the Rock, the Lamb, the Messiah of God to the people of his new covenant kingdom.
From the physical water to the physical tribes of Israel who were the people of the Mosaic covenant kingdom to the spiritual water of life to the spiritual Israel who are the people of the Messianic new covenant people.
Two book ends, Petra and water from the rock for the covenant people of the kingdom of God.
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