What was the spiritual drink Israel drank in the wilderness?
Israel drank the same spiritual drink: the water that came from the rock after Moses struck it. They drank of that spiritual rock, and the context identifies that rock as Christ. Thus the wilderness drink was literal water and a spiritual provision whose rock was Christ.
Les explains that Israel did all eat the same spiritual food—the manna—and did all drink the same spiritual drink, namely the water that came out of the rock after Moses struck it. He emphasizes that “rock” is capitalized significantly because this rock followed them, and that rock was Christ. Les also ties this to the principle that a word used in a particular way is never used outside that context, and he connects the rock theme to Matthew 16, where Peter confesses, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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 was the rock that followed Israel in the wilderness according to 1 Corinthians 10?
The spiritual rock that followed Israel in the wilderness was Christ, which is why the word "rock" is capitalized in Scripture.