Exodus 16:33 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 16:33

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Exodus 16:33-34
Excerpted from: Eden, The Garden, and The Two Trees (Part Three)

You will notice that the word "testimony" in verse 34 is capitalized, so it is something that is fairly significant. This word "testimony" means "something spoken of again and again." It is pointing to something of great importance within the Holy of Holies, but I am not going to tell you what it is until a little bit later when a further explanation will be more meaningful and it will fit better. Every Passover we go over this, and maybe you will appreciate its importance a little bit more the next time we do this.

Aaron was told to put an omer of manna in a golden pot and to put it inside the Ark. He put it in the Ark and it never stank once for a thousand years. Was somebody watching over that? You had better believe somebody was watching over it that it did not turn into worms, because it represented Jesus and the life He could give to us. He never wears out. He never de-energizes. He is the bread we are to eat.

Manna strengthened the Israelites so that they could do things in God's behalf and get into the Promised Land. The living Jesus Christ is our High Priest, our Sustainer, and our Strength if we eat of Him. He requires that. He said, "You have to eat of Me." Of course we understand that He is the living Word of God. The Bible is the living Word of God in writing, and we are sustained spiritually by the spiritual food that is taken into us day by day, giving us spiritual strength. The fact that the golden pot of this miraculous food was set aside and placed within the Holy of Holies, signifies that Jesus Himself occupies a rightful position in the great throne room of God Almighty.

That makes three items in the Holy of Holies: the Ark of the Covenant with its Mercy Seat, signifying the throne of God, thus His presence; the golden pot of manna, signifying Jesus Christ, our Savior and our High Priest, at His right hand; and then there is Aaron's almond rod that miraculously budded, signifying the Tree of Life, God's power and authority.

Now, was it really the fruit of the tree that was bad? No, not at all. That fruit was okay. Did not Eve say that she looked at the tree, and she saw that the fruit was good? It was the fact that they disobeyed that was bad. There was nothing really inherently bad about the fruit or the tree.

Now what is the Testimony? I said I would give you the answer. The Testimony is the whole Holy of Holies. It includes the Mercy Seat. It includes the Ark upon which the Mercy Seat sits, and it includes all of those things contained within the Ark, and with it the knowledge that this room represented the house, the dwelling place of God. These are things the word Testimony means—things that are spoken of over and over. In some form, almost every sermon touches on what is in that Holy of Holies, symbolically representing some of the most important things in our life.

Exodus 16:33-35
Excerpted from: Sincerity and Truth (Part One)

God says, “I want you to save some of this so that further generations down the line will know what I did; that I fed an entire nation, on foot in the wilderness [however many millions it was], for forty years, never missing a day except the Sabbath” (which He had told them to gather twice the amount on Friday). So He had, week after week, after all those years, provided the same food, the same amount, for them to eat, to subsist.

So God provided this stuff—this manna, this ‘What is it?’, this “We don’t know what this is, but it’s good and it tastes like coriander and honey.” And they learned to make it all kinds of different ways, and it sustained them throughout forty years.

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