INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
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(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Introduction/Start of study

Exodus Chapter 17: JUST SPEAK TO THE ROCK; IT WAS ALREADY SMITTEN!

In chapter fifteen of this book, the people left Egypt and went a ways and had no water, murmuring, grumbling against Moses and God. God gave them bitter water, perhaps to remind them of the bitterness that they just escaped. Then he had Moses take some branches from a tree and sweeten that water, perhaps a message of how sweet was their rescue, salvation from bondage. In this chapter, the Gospel message is quite clear.

The spirit and the flesh battle in us, leaving the world (Egypt) in our lives, without even fighting their way out, where there was no real battle, spiritually, to now open warfare because we are now redeemed

The Rock, the LORD Jesus Christ

Living Water

Smiting the Rock

So both Israel here and us both got our Living Water when the Rock was smitten

Immediate spiritual warfare that starts after our salvation, here in the form of Amalek, for us the enemy and the flesh

Prayer, as in speaking to the Rock only afterwards, not crucifying Him again

The type of the Cross (Moses and the rod held up) or, it they are all of the way up, then raising of hands in worship, winning, dropping arms in lack of faith, not winning

Moses struck the Rock once and living water came out

Moses was only told the second time to speak to the Rock, and he struck it again, indicating he crucified Christ afresh, indicating "works salvation", religion, not of God

Because of this, Moses was denied entry into the Promised land along with the nationm (actual land, not heaven) that Israel would one day inhabit

It nevertheless still must be remembered and said that God still showed mercy on Israel by giving them water out of the rock abundantly, because He had a future purpose for them, and still does, forever

Salvation is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), so what Moses did was what many Christians today do: they may get saved, then forget the LORD saved them, then try to KEEP their salvation through works, somehow thinking tht they will lose it

Belief in and using the "modern" "versions" will lead to this nonsense also, as displayed here

THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST

(1 Corinthians 10:4 [KJV])
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

(Numbers 20:11 [KJV])
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

(Hebrews 6:6 [KJV])
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

(1 Peter 3:18 [KJV])
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

(Hebrews 9:28 [KJV])
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

THE BACKGROUND/FOUNDATION

Abraham: earthly Father of the nation
From Hagar the Egyptian bondmaiden
Ishmael: From Hagar the Egyptian bondmaiden, the worldly woman, the worldly, fleshly child
Sarah: barren wife of Abraham
Isaac: child of promise, miraculous birth from Sarah and Abraham, in their nineties
Later renamed Jacob, only spoken of when in the flesh, Israel in the Spirit (person, nation)
Ishmael mocks Isaac, (Genesis 21:9, Galatians 4:29)
Hagar (Egypt) and Ishmael were then cast out from Abraham and Sarah
Israel was later cast out of Egypt (Exodus 14:33)

(Exodus 17:1 [KJV])
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

So now, think for a moment why God would bring them to a place with no water, over a million of them, water for them, their wives, their children, animals
Is it because He wants them to die? Or to trust in His provision?
Is it because He wants them to die? Or for a lesson in faith?

s (Exodus 17:2 [KJV])
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

So now, think again.........did they think Moses had water in his pockets? In a bag on the back of his horse, or on the back of his ass? In a waterproof backpack?
Knowing that Moses was never there before, did they think that he knew where to find water in this vast wilderness?

(Exodus 17:3 [KJV])
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Now think..why would Moses get them out of bondage to have them die of thirst here? Because he hates them?
Was it possible that God would fail in His promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, because it had not happened yet?
Their Messiah, the Rock, promised in Genesis 3:15, had not come yet, so was God going to fail on that also?

(Exodus 17:4 [KJV])
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Yes, a little bit of unbelief there from Moses, not knowing what to do to get water, not seeing it
This is how many prayed then, as now, not knowing what God wants, will do, etc.

(Exodus 17:5 [KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

Moses and all Israel are about to discover living water, some Living Water, some not
All die of something and all of these died as well, never seeing the actual promised land, but not when God wants us alive
Paul wanted to die in Corinth and many of us have been there, because of the trials of this life, but, as we follow Him, God says when and how we die
As and if we do not, then we decide, like Judas (Matthew 27:5, below), who rejected Jesus and is in hell, forever

(2 Corinthians 1:8 [KJV])
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

(Matthew 27:5 [KJV])
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

LIVING WATER

Jesus Christ the Rock saved us forever from our bondage to sin, from this world, here and the in the rest of Scripture represented by Egypt, and gave us Living Water, wherein we would never seek another, false god, which is not truly, really any god at all.

(Song of Solomon 4:15 [KJV])
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

(Jeremiah 2:13 [KJV])
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

(Jeremiah 17:13 [KJV])
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

(Zechariah 14:8 [KJV])
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

(John 4:10-11 [KJV])
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

(John 7:38 [KJV])
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(Exodus 17:6 [KJV])
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Now Jesus Christ stood before them and, with the eyes of faith, they would have seen Him, not visibly
Without the eyes of faith, neither they nor us would see Jesus
It has to be understood that it was not the rock, the topography, a well, a natural spring that Moses had opened up, as they say in the underground water works, "developed"
Hitting a large rock will not naturally bring water out of it; this is supernatural
In fact, if we knew the exact location today and went there, most likely there is no longer water coming out but, if there is, it started then, because God the LORD Jesus Christ did it, not "nature"

(Exodus 17:7 [KJV])
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

This is ultimately their reason for grumbling against Moses, not even thinkign that they were tempting God, saying, in essence, "Oh, so you will now kill us after all of the other miracles, will you?" and, "If God is with us, where's our water to drink so we can live and not die?"

TEMPTING GOD

(Deuteronomy 6:16 [KJV])
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

(Numbers 20:3 [KJV])
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

(Luke 4:12 [KJV])
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

(Exodus 17:8 [KJV])
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

THE AMALEKITES: ONE OF MANY THORNS IN ISRAEL'S SIDE

All in all, the Amalekites were nothing but deadly enemies of Israel throughout their history, until they were finished off

The first mention of Amalek is in Genesis 36:12 as Esau's grandson, Esau being Edom, Esau being the child of the flesh, not the child of the inheritance, the nation God would form, now Israel (Jacob, Esau's brother)
Amalekites were first mentioned in Genesis fourteen, along with others, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah
This Amalekite region was the travel of Lot after splitting with Abraham his uncle, needing more land, by agreement
When Moses fought them, he held up the rod of God and, while he held it, they prevailed. When he got too tired, it dropped low and they lost to Amalek, so they propped up his arms and Israel won over the Amalekites (Exodus 17:12, below)
God afterwards destroyed all of the remainder of them from under heaven (Exodus 17:14, below)
Because many Israelites lacked faith under Joshua and Caleb, they were attacked and fell by the sword by the Amalekites, (Numbers 13-14)
The Amalekites came with the Midianites to destroy Israel's good land, putting them into hunger and poverty (Judges 6:4)
When the Amalekites came with the Midianites and surrounded him, Gideon put out his fleece (Judges 6:33)
Saul and Jonathan originally defeated many Amalekites (1 Samuel 14:48)
However, against Samuel's command to destroy all, man and best, all of them, Saul saved some animals alive, along with king Agag, because the people wanted him to, Saul being a manpleaser (1 Samuel 15:7-9)
Because of this, Saul was rejected by God and God raised up David to be king (1 Samuel 15:22-23)
David finally finished the job and smote all of the Amalekites in the land, so a few of the Amalekites escaped and fled (1 Samuel 27:8-9)
When David encountered the Amalekites in Ziklag later on, he had to rescue his kidnapped wife, among others, from the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30:18)
An Amalekite finished off the injured Saul when Saul fought against them in Mount Gilboa (2 Samuel 1:10)
When God wanted David to destroy malek, he wanted him to blot out their memory from all, as in leave nothing left to remember them BY, and remember that t his was done as a memorial (Deuteronomy 25:19)

(Genesis 14:7 [KJV])
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

(Genesis 36:12 [KJV])
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

(Genesis 36:16 [KJV])
Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

(Exodus 17:8-11 [KJV])
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

(Exodus 17:13-14 [KJV])
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

(Exodus 17:16 [KJV])
For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

(Numbers 13:29 [KJV])
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

(Numbers 14:25 [KJV])
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

(Numbers 14:43 [KJV])
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

(Numbers 14:45 [KJV])
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

(Numbers 24:20 [KJV])
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

(Deuteronomy 25:17 [KJV])
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

(Deuteronomy 25:19 [KJV])
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

(Judges 3:13 [KJV])
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

(Judges 5:14 [KJV])
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

(Judges 6:3 [KJV])
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

(Judges 6:33 [KJV])
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.

(Judges 7:12 [KJV])
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

(Judges 10:12 [KJV])
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

(Judges 12:15 [KJV])
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

(1 Samuel 14:48 [KJV])
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

(1 Samuel 15:2 [KJV])
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

(1 Samuel 15:3 [KJV])
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

(1 Samuel 15:5-8 [KJV])
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

(1 Samuel 15:15 [KJV])
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

(1 Samuel 15:18 [KJV])
And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

(1 Samuel 15:20 [KJV])
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

(1 Samuel 15:32 [KJV])
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

(1 Samuel 27:8 [KJV])
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

(1 Samuel 28:18 [KJV])
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

(1 Samuel 30:1 [KJV])
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

(1 Samuel 30:13 [KJV])
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

(1 Samuel 30:18 [KJV])
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

(2 Samuel 1:1 [KJV])
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

(2 Samuel 1:8 [KJV])
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

(2 Samuel 1:13 [KJV])
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

(2 Samuel 8:12 [KJV])
Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

(1 Chronicles 1:36 [KJV])
The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

(1 Chronicles 4:43 [KJV])
And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

(1 Chronicles 18:11 [KJV])
Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

(Psalms 83:7 [KJV])
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

AMALEKITES