“They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”
1 Corinthians 10:2 (NIV)
The apostle Paul is teaching us in 1 Corinthians 10 that the experiences of the Israelites being delivered at the Red Sea are comparable to our deliverance thru faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
You read this account in Exodus 14 and you notice that the people knew they were going to die - sure knowledge of death! Moses intervenes with God on their behalf, and God protects them with the cloud of His Presence and calls on Moses to deliver them with His staff. Not thru his own power, so that Moses gets the glory, but God chooses to deliver His people through His servant Moses. Do you notice that last verse says that the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. Surely they were baptized into Moses and into the cloud- they feared God enough to trust Him and to trust His servant whom God used to deliver them.
This passage is so important towards us gaining a proper perspective on the Old Testament stories of the Israelite people. They lived in the Day of example for our benefit and we live in the Day of the fulfillment of the ages. If we allow Paul's view of the experiences of the Israelites to shape our reading of their OT experiences that Scriptures describe - we will become thoroughly equipped for every good deed, that Christ has ready for us to do.
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