Exodus (Program #36) -The Heavenly Diet—Manna (2)
Manna was the food that God gave to the children of Israel to eat during their 40 year journey in the wilderness. We know that it was small and white and round, but beyond that description we don’t know much else. In another word, it was mysterious. Though numerous words have been written about the Lord Jesus Christ, He also remained in may ways a mystery. It’s hard to say exactly what or who He is. Yet like the manna of old, He can surely feed and sustain His people.
We began this topic of manna a few days ago and Witness Lee put chapter 16 of Exodus on the same plain as chapter 14 and chapter 12 where the Passover feast and the crossing of the Red Sea are all depicted. It is quite remarkable that this chapter has the same kind of stature. Manna is mentioned in two places at least in Scripture in the Old Testament; this portion in Exodus 16 that we’ve been looking at and also comes up in Numbers chapter 11. Let’s look at couple verses from that portion, ” there is nothing at all but this manna to look at. Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it between two millstones or beat it in a mortar; then they boiled it in pots and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked in oil. And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.” One thing is certain; manna was very mysterious but it was very wonderful as well. What do we know about manna?
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