Christ in all the scriptures
He is the Rock Deuteronomy 32.
This significant title of Deity is repeated 5 times in the song (v4, v15, v18, v30-31). In total it appears more than 30 times throughout scripture, and compels us to understand its meaning. What a rock is in contrast to the shifting sands of the desert, God is to His people. It promotes thoughts of His majesty, His stability, His dependability, His surety, His consistency, His integrity It says more, for the picture is of a spiritual rock that followed them throughout their wilderness journey. He sent them refreshing life-giving water from the rock as well as sweet honey, and it became a refuge from the storms and from their enemies. We can do no better than quote the many scriptures illustrating the intriguing study of God our Rock.
Deuteronomy 32v4 He is the God of integrity. and moral perfection; "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". Each one of those attributes deserves separate study.
Deuteronomy 32v15 "He is the Rock of our salvation" and, although Israel departed from Him and lightly esteemed Him, yet He is the Rock of ages upon whom we can all depend . The Church of Christ, in the present day, is built upon the Rock which is Christ. The sum total of the might of Satan and evil will not prevail against it- Matthew 16v18.
Deuteronomy 32v18 He is Creator of all "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee". We are all the creatures of His hand and do well to remember that.
Deuteronomy 32v30-31 He is "Our Rock", enabling His people to achieve remarkable victories. However when they forsake Him, He actively allows them to fail. He is the indispensable basis for a victorious life. All other so-called rocks are as nothing in comparison to Him.
2nd Samuel 22v2-3 He is our refuge in the midst of enemies, "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; the God of my rock; in whom I will trust: He is my shield, and the horn (the power) of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour..."
Refer also 2nd Samuel 22v32 and v47; 23v3. Psalm 18v2 and v31 and v46; Psalm 19v14 (translated strength); Psalm 28v1; 31v2-3; Psalm 61v2; Psalm 62v2 and v7; Psalm 71v3; Psalm 78v35; Psalm 89v26; Psalm 92v15; Psalm 94v22; Psalm 144v1-2; Isaiah 17v10; Isaiah 26v4 (everlasting strength); Isaiah 30v29 (translated mighty-"the mighty one of Israel).
We turn over to the New Testament, and in 1st Corinthians 10v4 we read, "And did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them.....
..AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST!"
Powerful, stable, majestic, dependable, generous, loyal, merciful, holy. This is our God.
