What does the symbol of the rock in the Bible refer to?
In any symbolic setting, the word rock refers to only one person: Jesus the Christ. He is always the rock, and Scripture also calls Him the stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. This is illustrated in 1 Corinthians 10.
Les teaches that Horeb and Mount Sinai are one and the same, and God told Moses, “I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb.” Moses was to smite or strike the rock with his rod, and water would come out so the people could drink. Since there were several million people plus all their livestock, Les suggests a veritable river flowed down through that desert floor, and they all had plenty to drink. To identify the term rock, Les has us return to the New Testament, 1 Corinthians chapter 10. He says that all through Scripture, whenever the word rock is used in any kind of symbolic setting, it only refers to one person: Jesus the Christ. He is always the rock, and in another place He is called the stone of stumbling, a rock of offense. Les then reads Paul’s words to the Gentiles at Corinth, beginning with verse 1, about the fathers being under the cloud and baptized unto Moses.
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
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Who does the word 'rock' symbolize in the Bible?
In Scripture, whenever the word rock is used in any symbolic setting, it refers only to one person, Jesus Christ, who is always the rock.