PerryDox – BeJustAChristian

It is impossible to define who and what Moses was without water. In fact, his name itself means, “drawing out” in Hebrew and “born” in Egyptian (Exodus 2:10). Moses was “born of water” (Ex.2:1ff).

We too are born of water (John 3:3,5).

The next water scene is after he flees for his life from his adopted family. Moses arrives in Midian. This is where he draws water for the 7 daughters of Reuel as known as Jethro (Ex.2:15ff). This is not the only biblical narrative where a wife was found at the well!

It was another well that Jesus speaks of living water, also in a foreign land (John 4:10,14).

After Moses has an experience with God at the burning bush, he is commissioned to turn the Nile water into blood (Ex.4.9; 7:14ff).

Jesus’s first sign turned water into wine (John 4); and when crucified out of his side came both blood and water. John writes that Jesus came by water and blood (1 John 5:6).

Most famously, Moses led the Israelites through the Red Sea on dry ground. An East wind, which is the same word for Spirit, split the sea (Ex.14-15).

Jesus walked on water (Matthew 14). John also adds after saying Jesus came by water and blood, “For there are three that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood” (1 John 5:7-8).

Almost immediately, three days in fact, Israel traveled without finding water. Eventually Moses took a tree and threw it into the water at the Lord’s command, and the bitter water became drinkable (Ex.15:22ff).

Bitterness is removed by a tree and this took place after three days. Sound prophetic?

Twice Moses hit a rock and water came out providing nourishment for the traveling Israelites (Ex.17; Num.20).

Jesus himself is called this rock and was struck for us (1 Corinthians 10).

The final defining moment involving water is God saying that Moses would not cross over the Jordon into the promised land (Deut.31:2).

Moses’s ministry ended before crossing the Jordon and Jesus’s ministry became by being baptized in the Jordon (Matthew 3).

Apparently, Moses is not the only defined by water. Jesus himself is, as are we. Water, blood, and life.

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