Sermon 2838 - Why the Rocks Were Rent at Jesus' Death - 1st Message....(Sun am 10/18/2009)

WHY THE ROCKS WERE RENT AT JESUS’ DEATH — 1ST MESSAGE.....(SUN AM 10/18/2009)
God established a Moral Principle concerning the Rock in the Old Testament dispensation that was fulfilled in the New Testament by Jesus Christ when He hung on the Cross. The Hebrew word for the Father’s Rock is tsoor. There is another Hebrew word for rocks, tsoo-reem, which is a plural word. The tsoo-reem little Rocks came out of the big Rock. Christ, in the Old Testament, Who, in the New Testament is called the seh-lah Rock, also came from the Father. So you can see that we have two different words here, for rock: the tsoo-reem Rocks that came from the Father and the seh-lah Rock that also came from the Father.

When Israel was at Rephidim, murmuring and complaining because they were thirsty, Moses was up on Mount Horeb with Christ, the seh-lah Rock, and with His Heavenly Father, the tsoor Rock. When Moses struck the tsoor Rock, he made a hole in the Rock, and the Waters flowed out. The Father’s naw-har River of Love came into the Son. Then, it went to the tsoo-reem Rocks, and there were twelve of them.

These Waters actually flowed, invisibly, over to Rephidim because the Israelites were not at Horeb; they were at Rephidim. Then, from the twelve tsoo-reem Rocks, the Waters flowed out  to the twelve tribes of Israel.  In the New Testament, in Matthew 27:27-54, Jesus Christ, the seh-lah Rock, was hanging on the Cross, and there were the twelve Rocks around Him. Did the tsoor Rock follow the Israelites in the Wilderness?  Yes! The tsoo-reem Rocks came out of the tsoor Rock, so they all followed the Israelites, too. This pattern never changed.