What does the rock represent throughout Scripture?
Throughout Scripture, from the Old Testament to the end, the rock is consistently a type of Christ. Israel’s water from the struck rock pictured Christ, Daniel’s rock cut without hands pictured Christ’s Second Coming, and the rock upon which Christ builds His Church pointed to Himself. None other.
Les explains that all through Scripture, from the beginning of the Old Testament to the end, every typical reference to the rock refers to Christ, and none other; it never deviates. In Israel’s wilderness experience, Moses struck the rock by God’s instruction, water came out, and Paul makes plain in Chapter 10 that the rock was Christ. Later in Numbers, Moses was supposed to speak to the rock but struck it, yet the rock was still Christ. In Daniel Chapter 2, the rock cut out without hands that strikes the image on its feet pictures the Second Coming of Christ as a smiting stone. In Matthew, after Peter’s confession, Jesus says Peter means a stone, but upon this rock—capital R-O-C-K—speaking of Himself, upon Christ, He would found the Church. So the rock is always Christ in typical language.