All were Baptized unto Moses 1 Corinthians 10:2

The apostle Paul did not want the Corinthian church members to be “ignorant” concerning,“how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;”, and in chapter ten and verse two of First Corinthians, Paul shared how they were, “all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea” where we read:

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

The verse begins, “And were all baptized unto Moses ...” Paul began with the word, “And” which means “in addition, also, even and indeed” “were all baptized” or “were each, every, the whole and everyone immersed or submerged” “unto Moses” whose name means “drawing out” and which refers to “towards the legislator of the Jewish people and in a certain sense the founder of the Jewish religion”. Paul used the analogy of the people of Israel walking through the “Red Sea” on dry ground to refer to being “baptized” under Moses' leadership.

The verse continues, “ … in the cloud and in the sea;” Paul added the words, “in the cloud” or “the cloud which led the Israelites in the wilderness” “and in the sea which means “ specifically of the Red Sea”. Paul referred to the way the Israelites were kept “under the cloud” in the wilderness and walked through the “Red Sea” when they left Egypt.

When we think through these words from Paul, we understand his correlation between the Israelites being “baptized”, so to speak, in the Red Sea as they left Egypt, and they remained “under the cloud” in the wilderness as they traveled through the desert. This is like the person who receives Jesus as their Savior and Lord. They come under the “covering” of God, and they are “baptized” in water to obey the Lord's command as a public profession of their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. We should be intrigued by Paul's examples from the Old Testament, and as he continues to share with the Corinthians, may we see this as God's desire to redeem people into a relationship with Him all throughout the ages.

Next time Paul told the church members how they, “did all eat the same spiritual meat”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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