The Everlasting Covenant

The Lord our Rock

“And that Rock was Christ.” Many times the Lord is represented as a Rock. “The Lord is my Rock, and my Fortress, and my Deliverer.” ³ “The Lord is upright; He is my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” ⁴ “Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are judgment; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.” ¹ Jesus Christ is the Rock upon which the church is built—the “living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,” upon whom, if we come to Him, we are “built up a spiritual house.” ² Both prophets and apostles built on Him not only as “the chief corner stone,” ⁴ but as the entire foundation, and the only one that can be laid. Whosoever builds not on Him, builds on the shifting sand. EVCO 263.4

The rock which the people saw in the desert was but a figure of the Rock, Jesus Christ, who stood upon it, but whom they did not see. That flinty rock could not of itself furnish water. There was no exhaustless supply stored up within it, which, once given vent, would continue to flow ever fresh and sweet. It had no life. But Christ, “the Author of Life” stood upon it, and it was from Him that the water came. We do not need to theorize, for the Scripture plainly tells us that the people drank from Christ. EVCO 264.1

This must have been evident to every one who gave a moment’s thought to the matter. Indeed, the water was given as a direct answer to the unbelieving question, “Is the Lord among us, or not?” By supplying them with water out of the solid, flinty rock in the dry and barren desert, the Lord showed the people that He was really among them; for none but He could have done it. EVCO 264.2