Quotes: Exodus 17:5-7 The LORD answered Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?” ... Strike once, speak many times. Num 20:7-13 ‘The LORD said to Moses, “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water… Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.” Not a long wait for Amalek now is it? Exodus 17 8-9 The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.” Back to the story in Exodus we find that as soon as the people drank from the living waters that came from the rock, that the Amalekites came and attacked God’s people. A.B Simpson writes ‘Amalek was a type of the flesh. He was descended from Esau; and Esau represented the carnal nature.’ CHM writes ‘Amalek represents the hinderance to their walk with God through the wilderness… Amalek stands before us as a type of the flesh.’[7] CHM goes on to correctly point out that this is the first battle that Israel is called to fight in. Before now, the message had been ‘stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.’ (Exodus 14:13). Now the message is ‘choose some of the men and go and fight the Amalekites.’ Have you found that to be true in your Christian life? The work of salvation is free and has been provided to us by God. But have you found that there is an internal battle going on within you that begins the moment you receive the living waters of the Holy Spirit at salvation? Exodus 17:10-11 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. The first point that comes out of this battle is that it is no ordinary fight! It is not won through having great skill or great forces. While Joshua and his men had to fight in the battle, the outcome didn’t rest on their strength or weakness. Victory, the word tells us rested in Moses lifting his hands! In other words, victory was received as Moses lifted his hands to Heaven in a symbolic act of prayer and surrender.[8] I get by with a little help from my friends… Exodus 17:12-13 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword. ... jesusplusnothing/studies/online/exodus17.htm
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