Post by Lee on Mar 2, 2014 22:42:11 GMT
This goes back to the question of why the cloud in 1Co 10:2 " And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea";
It makes even more sense in that the cloud was a "covering".
Found this following from 1907 Christadelphian:
In considering the reference by Paul to Israel’s national baptism unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea (1 Cor. 10:1, 2), we perceive that the cloud was a necessity in the case of their national induction into Moses, the prophet like unto Christ, and consequently into the system of things which came by him (for without the cloud baptism would have been impossible), and that in its connection with water for that purpose it became highly typical of the truth, without which, as we know, believers’ baptism into the grace and truth, which came by Jesus Christ, would also be an impossibility. And as the spirit is the channel through which the truth came, and therefore, as John says, “is the truth, ” we can understand this spirit-cloud’s connection with the truth, which is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path, as the literal brightness of the pillar of fire was to the feet and path of the children of Israel in the wilderness.
1907 Christadelphian p 206
It makes even more sense in that the cloud was a "covering".
Found this following from 1907 Christadelphian:
In considering the reference by Paul to Israel’s national baptism unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea (1 Cor. 10:1, 2), we perceive that the cloud was a necessity in the case of their national induction into Moses, the prophet like unto Christ, and consequently into the system of things which came by him (for without the cloud baptism would have been impossible), and that in its connection with water for that purpose it became highly typical of the truth, without which, as we know, believers’ baptism into the grace and truth, which came by Jesus Christ, would also be an impossibility. And as the spirit is the channel through which the truth came, and therefore, as John says, “is the truth, ” we can understand this spirit-cloud’s connection with the truth, which is a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path, as the literal brightness of the pillar of fire was to the feet and path of the children of Israel in the wilderness.
1907 Christadelphian p 206