At the end of Exodus chapter 15, right after singing praises to God, the Israelites find themselves thirsty. What do they do? Do they ask God to provide? No! They complain. And still God provides water. Keep in mind that in the New Testament, it says that Jesus provides living water. All we have to do is ask.
(John 4:10) Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
Then, in chapter 16, the Israelites complained about being hungry. And even began remembering "the old days" back in Egypt, as slaves. Funny how we can reinterpret our past experiences, instead of facing our immediate challenges with faith in God to bring us through it. Well, God still sends them bread (manna) from heaven. Keep in mind that in the New Testament, Jesus is called the Bread of Life. (John 6:35). Another very cool portion of scripture is...
(John 6:41-50) Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.” 42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die..."
From the last portion that I highlighted, I now kind of want to assume that whenever "the LORD appears" - this is the Jesus of the Old Testament. And so in these chapters...
(Exodus 16:10-11) It came about as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses...
How did this actually look? No idea. And whether or not this is God the Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit - this is only an opinion that I'm formulating. which could bring about interesting insights But it doesn't really matter - since - "the LORD appearing" is always and most definitely GOD!!! God sends us living water and bread from heaven... just as God sends us Jesus, providing salvation. A complete and full salvation. Like after a good meal, and you feel satisfied and nourished and re energized...
Our souls were created to be filled by God. But because of man's fall, we are born with a sin-nature... death... an emptiness in our soul - which hungers and thirsts to be filled! So we must search for something to fill that craving, that void. We can try filling it with physical things (work, drugs, alcohol, sex, sports, physical food...), but no matter what physical attempts we try - it will never fill our soul... This is a spiritual craving that can only be filled by Jesus.
(John 6:35) Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst."
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